Requirements for Ethical Hackng

1.Networking Knowledge
You should understand how the network are connected and setup. Knowledge of ports,IP ,tcp,mac,topology and many more are essential for ethical hacking.

2.Programming
for the hacker, programming is necessary otherwise he/she cannot make the software or other thing to break the security and understand the programming language in which programs  and websites are created. Python is very important for hacker. There are many languages too.some of them  are HTML,css,python,ruby,Perl,c,c++,c# java script,java and many more.

3.Skills of using os(operating system)
hacker should know how to operate many operating system . mostly user use windows  but for hacker they should know how to use other Linux based operating  system like Ubuntu, Kali,parrot,Linux, and many more. There are securities  operating system too.

4.Tools and virtualization software
different security tools  are to be known how to use and hacker should know how to be anonymous too by hiding their original IP address.

5.Critical thinking

Hacker should think how the black hacker hack the computer system and you should think how to beat those hacker by making more secure the system.