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In this video, we're going to go over the three types of hackers, I want you to get an understanding

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of what you guys are actually the good guys, which guys are the bad guys and which guys are, you know,

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in between which guys are essentially on the borderline.

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They aren't necessarily good, but they're not necessarily bad so that you can understand which side

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is what and what these different types of hackers actually spend their time doing and which one obviously

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is going to be the best for you as an ethical hacker, cybersecurity professional.

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So let's go right ahead and jump in here.

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So the first type of hacker that you want to understand is the white hat.

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Now, these are going to be all of the good guys, right?

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These are the guys that are actually using their professional experience.

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Right, to actually help companies, help organizations actually deter hackers from stealing information.

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And so what these guys are doing is they're using their skills for defensive purposes.

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Right.

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Helping businesses, helping organizations in these white hats are usually professional security individuals

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that have the knowledge, the experience, the expertise as a hacker and use their knowledge to locate

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weaknesses and implement countermeasures.

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Right.

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To prevent any type of vulnerable attacks.

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They're the ones that actually ask permission.

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Right.

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Get the permission from the actual owner of the data before they're going into and actually hacking

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the system looking for information.

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Because what they're really doing in a sense here is a white header and what you're going to be doing

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as well.

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You're going to be putting your mind into the mind of a hacker, of a bad guy, in a sense.

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Right, because you want to think from that criminal perspective so that you can get an idea as far

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as what type of strategies, actions, plans will the type of individuals that are looking to take over

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information in a malicious manner.

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How are they thinking?

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What are they perceiving?

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How are they viewing, you know, this type of system, the one that you're looking to protect, to

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defend whatever that may be?

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Right.

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And then we have the black hats.

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Now, these are the well known bad guys, right?

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These are the malicious attackers, the ones that actually attack organizations, companies, individuals

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that, you know, do the ransomware is where they're taking over our companies network companies information

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and they won't release it until they get some sort of reward, some sort of payment.

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They have essentially stepped on over to the dark side.

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Right.

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You want to think about like a Star Wars type of analogy where, you know, you have the good guys and

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bad guys.

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Right.

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And the black hats are unfortunately the individuals that have turned over to the dark side because

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there are individuals that, you know, are on the white hat.

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And for whatever reason, they choose to go to the dark side, so to speak.

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Right.

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And they turn into doing malicious attacks.

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Right.

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But as white hats, we're looking to defend, you know, the systems and networks from these black hats.

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These are the guys that are looking to take advantage of their skill to use it for illegal purposes.

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They break into systems without getting permission.

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Right.

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Without any kind of access.

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They're looking at how they can gather information, how they can gain access to data and use it to

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their benefit so that they can essentially get paid in a selfish manner for the release of that information

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or for whatever, you know, malicious intent that may be.

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Now, the gray hat, these are the guys that work, you know, on either side of the fence here.

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They are on the offensive and they're on the defensive.

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And it all depends on the situation.

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Some of these folks will often cross over.

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They are oftentimes self-taught and they're interested in hacking different technologies, different

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tools, just oftentimes for, you know, out of curiosity.

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And so a lot of these folks, they didn't really go to school or get any type of formal education initially.

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They have essentially, for the most part, and not in every case, have taught themselves the skills

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of how to hack systems, how to hack networks that have a very diverse set of tools as well as skill

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sets.

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But they're more on the curious side and they may from time to time across the line, over to the dark

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side.

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But they're more on the curious side versus the actual black hat, where their actual intent is more

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on the malicious side.

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So that's going to be here for the three types of hackers.

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And we'll see you on the next one.