“Hacker” the tern that has made its appearance a decade ago is still is one of the most misunderstood terms in the IT field.
Of course, it was a term that people used back in the 90s for manipulators, and data thefts.
The struggle of bringing the hacking into ethical certification was even worse for the EC council as many people used to ignore two starting terms “ethical hacking” and only focus on “hacker”.
In the mind of a business professional “hacker” is still the term that denotes “a bad person”, more specifically “a virtual thief” that works with an aim to steal valuable data and information by making a breach into system or software.
That’s the main reason, many organizations straightforwardly deny any hacking testing on their software, network or hardware out of fear of losing more than they can bet.
For them, the key concern is “how do you identify who is an ethical hacker and who is not?”EC council come up with the certified ethical hacker certification back in 2003 to differentiate the ‘ethical hackers’ from unethical hackers.