ETHICAL HACKING AND CYBER SECURITY

WHAT IS ETHICAL HACKING?

Ethical Hacking refers to finding out threats, vulnerabilities in systems before a malicious hacker finds it to exploit them which causes in loss of data includes financial, personal, etc. The main aim of Ethical hacking is to improve security in networks and systems by finding loop holes in it. In this type of hacking a hacker uses same tools that are used by malicious attackers but with the authorization of some organization or client to improve security for them. Ethical Hacking is based on planning, approving and mainly it is legal.

WHAT IS CYBER SECURITY?

Cyber Security refers to practice of protecting systems, networks and electronic devices from digital attacks done by attackers such as malicious hackers. These type of attacks are called cyber attacks. This attacks usually performed for gaining access, gaining money from people and destroying important files. Cyber Security is also called as information technology security.

IMPORTANCE:

In this modern era almost every organization such as medical, banking and education institutions using networks for collecting, storing lot of digital data. With the increase in digital information there is also increase in cyber crimes. Cyber Criminals using wide variety of methods like injecting malware's and many other to steal data of this organizations which results in increase of cyber crimes. In order to protect those kind of attacks and information this fields are very important. This fields are very important because it protects our lifestyle that we are adopted to and enjoying.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:

The field of Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking is increasing rapidly and also there is increase in number of job opportunities too. By 2022, there will be 1.8 million unfulfilled cyber security jobs. Demands for ethical hackers have been increased by 35% since 2019. There is also a program called Bug Bounty Hunting in that the hunter finds the vulnerabilities in Software's, Web applications and Websites too. There are lot of different job roles in this field. In India, a cyber security engineer salary averages 5L per year. Different countries provides wide range of salary packages according to job roles in this field.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To become expert in this field you should have certain skills and certifications. Skills in networking, programming, etc are very important in this field. To know what skills required in detail visit this link: https://hackersocietyblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/hacking-skills.html

Certifications also important to get recognition in this field. With this certifications you can advance your career in this field. There are lot of organizations offering certifications. Some of them are:

1. CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker)

2. GIAC Penetration Tester

3. OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional)

There are some universities that are teaching Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security:

1. Coventry University

2. PSB Academy

3. Dakota State University

4. West Herts College

5. Abertay University

JOB ROLES:

There are variety of job roles in this field:

1. CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)

2. Information Security Architect

3. Information Security Consultant/Specialist

4. Information Security Analyst

5. Information Security Auditor

6. Security Software Developer

7. Penetration Tester/Ethical Hacker

8. Vulnerability Assessor.

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