Webinar on ‘Penetration Testing’ organised by Kamla Lohtia S.D. College

Webinar on ‘Penetration Testing’ organised by Kamla Lohtia S.D. College

A webinar on ‘Penetration Testing’ was organised by Kamla Lohtia S.D. College, Ludhiana by the P.G. Dept. of Computer Science. Mr. Anshu Aneja, Director, Ansh Infotech, Ludhiana was the key speaker. The webinar focussed around apprising the IT students with the concept of Penetration Testing (also known as Pen testing or ethical hacking), which is an authorized simulated practice of testing a computer system, network or web application to find security vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit. Elaborating the concept, Mr. Aneja along with Mr. Mohit, Security Analyst, Ansh Infotech, gave a practical demonstration and explained the whole process of Penetration testing. Mr. Aneja also highlighted various related career options such as Bug Bounty Hunter, Pen Tester and Security analyst and also apprised the students about various emerging areas in the field of IT like Full Stack Web Development, Data Science, Cloud Computing, IOT (Internet of Things), etc and described them as essential for exploring new job avenues. Principal Dr. Rajesh Kumar Marwaha described Penetration Testing as essential for establishing the efficacy and security of the IT infrastructure, hardware and software in the organizations and expressed it as much relevant for the youth as a new career building platform as well. Towards the end, Prof. Ginnia Kakkar, Head, P.G. Dept. of Computer Science presented the vote of thanks. The College Managing Committee headed by President Sh. Dharam Paul Jain along with Sh. Sunil Aggarwal, Sh. Sandeep Aggarwal, Sh. Sandeep Jain, Sh. B.M. Ralhan, Sh. Shaman Jindal and Sh. R.D. Singhal also lauded this knowledgeable pursuit.