Ethical Hacking vs Penetration Testing vs Cybersecurity: Know the Difference?

Ethical hacking helps organizations in preventing the exploitation and vulnerabilities of their system’s data.

Today, several real-world testing methods are used to avoid cyber-attacks and secure important data from exploitation.

The webinar covers

• Ethical Hacking
• Penetration Testing
• Differences and Similarities
• Types & Stages of Penetration Testing
• Cybersecurity
• Impact of COVID-19 on Cybersecurity

Presenters: 

Carl Carpenter 

Carl is a former CISO of a $6B entity where he was responsible for protecting data of all types and regulatory environments such as FFIEC, HIPAA, and PCI as well as working with the FBI, IRS, and US Department of Labor around investigations relating to money laundering.  He has performed assessments against Fortune 10 and 50 companies in the areas of GDPR, CCPA, ISO/IEC 27001 and currently performs CMMC assessments as well as CMMC pre-audit support to help ensure a successful CMMC audit.  Prior to that, Carl retired from the US Military where he was involved in counter-terrorist, counter-narcotics, counter-intelligence operations and training foreign military members in these same concepts.  Carl is also a PECB trainer in ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27032, and CMMC Foundations and holds numerous other certifications.

In 2016, Carl joined Arrakis Consulting where he started as an auditor and providing CISO-as-a-Service to small or medium sized companies that needed more experience without increased cost.  In 2017, Carl added active penetration testing to his portfolio of skills and routinely performs penetration tests against companies of all sizes.  Carl also trains people on a variety of skills such as penetration testing, network engineering, network administration, OSI model, subnetting, etc…

Carl holds a Bachelors from Western Governors University in Network Security and Operations as well as numerous certifications from ITIL, Cisco, CompTIA, Microsoft, CMMC-AB, ISACA, OneTrust, RSA, PCI Council, Citrix, and Novell

Andreas Christoforides 

Mr. Christoforides is an active IT auditor and a trainer for a various organization on Information Security Management Systems. He is a member of the Cyprus Computer Society, a PECB certified trainer for ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 22301 and GDPR CDPO, and a former Deputy Head of IT Infrastructure at a Bulgarian Leading Bank.

In 2019, he joined BEWISE and delivered to clients a wide range of Cybersecurity projects in the areas of strategy, governance and risk management, data privacy and protection (GDPR), and business resilience and recovery. He conducts IT Risk Assessments and develops IT policies and procedures towards establishing an effective and secure IT Governance framework.

Mr. Christoforides holds a BEng degree from Birmingham City University and a variety of other qualifications from Microsoft and CISCO.

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