ethical hacker
Code 2529.4
Ethical hackers perform security vulnerability assessments and penetration tests in accordance with industry-accepted methods and protocols. They analyse systems for potential vulnerabilities that may result from improper system configuration, hardware or software flaws, or operational weaknesses.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- web application security threats
- software anomalies
- tools for ICT test automation
- computer forensics
- legal requirements of ICT products
- attack vectors
Skills and competences
- analyse the context of an organisation
- cyber attack counter-measures
- monitor system performance
- develop code exploits
- execute software tests
- penetration testing tool
- identify ICT system weaknesses
- perform ICT security testing
- proporcionar documentación técnica
Transversal competences
- address problems critically
- execute ICT audits
- identify ICT security risks
- ethics
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences