Sometimes hackers are the good guys…

Although you might be tempted to consider all hackers scourges of society, there is one subset of hacker that is actually doing you a favor by trying to break into your system. It's the job of these professionals, called ethical hackers, to find security holes before real hackers find them, protecting your company and its data in the process. To ensure that you find a reputable ethical hacker, make sure you run a thorough background check and make sure the candidate understands sophisticated hacking techniques such as DNS host identification abuse, cache poisoning, password cracking, spoofing, SSL session hijacking and malicious log editing.

Read on for more information on how to hire an ethical hacker:
- Read the article at RedmondMag.com