ABSTRACT
Hiring someone to hack your company goes by many names, such as ethical hacking, penetration testing, tiger teaming, intrusion testing, vulnerability analysis, and even security assessment. In addition, each term has different meanings in different countries or regions. The term penetration testing does not go over well in Central America and some places in the United States, whereas the term ethical hacking is not the preferred term in Western Europe. Tiger team is a derivative of a military term and I have heard it used in Taiwan and Japan, another place the use of ethical hacking, as the name of an act, does not go over well. Nevertheless, the most predominant terms are ethical hacking and penetration testing, and both terms are used quite regularly throughout this book.
