Ethical Principles for Designing Responsible Offensive Cyber Security Training

In this paper we present five principles for designing ethically responsible offensive cyber security training. The can be implemented in existing or new study plans and target both academic non-academic courses. Subject matter experts within various domains were consulted to validate fine tune the principles, together with a literature review of ethical studies related domains. background is continuous popularity (penetration testing, hacking). Offensive means actively trying break compromise system order find its vulnerabilities. If expertise placed wrong hands, person cause severe damage organizations, civilians society at large. proposed are created mitigate these risks while maintaining upsides security. This achieved by incorporating training, facilitate practitioners knowledge how when use their acquired expertise.