Ethical Hacking, otherwise known as penetration testing, involves a controlled cyber attack of a stand-alone copy of your application or software, with the aim to find and report on exploitable vulnerabilities, giving you an opportunity to find and fix these issues before your software is actively hacked and exploited by an actual cyber criminal.
Typically, these tests involve creating a ‘staging’ copy of your application to minimise downtime, and a discussion of how your application works – such as your server information, what programming language it uses, and other factors, with the goal to make these tests and evaluations less time consuming and costly.