Career in Cyber Security: Skills Required, Job Roles, How to Get a Job [2021]
What is CYBER Security?
Cyber Security is a type of security that is for systems connected to the Internet. Through this, the data of hardware and software is made more secure, so that the data is not stolen in any way and all documents and files are safe.
Cyber Security is made up of two words Cyber + Security, meaning whatever is related to Internet, information, technology, computer, network, application or data, we call it Cyber.
Whereas security is related to security which includes system security, network security, application and information security.
How does Cyber Security work?
Under Cyber Security, there is a large team of Ethical Hackers who can protect your data from theft, data deletion or damage to any of your devices.
save. Those working in Cyber Security prevent bad people from doing wrong things.
Under this your network, computer system, any program and your
Data is kept safe
Why is Cyber Security Important? (Need of Cyber Security)
1. Cyber security is necessary to protect our personal data such as images, PDFs, text documents or any other type of data that resides in our computer.
2. Cyber Security is very important to keep any of our data in which only our copyright is safe. like if you have a company
Only you have copyright on his data, so it is necessary for no one to steal it or no other person can use it.
3. Cyber Security is also very important to provide security to our Banking and Financial data because if our banking data will not be secure then no one
hacker can withdraw money from our bank account
And nowadays Internet Banking has become an essential part of life, that is why it is important to keep banking and financial data safe.
What is the Scope of Cybersecurity as a Career?
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has estimated that India alone will need around 1 million cybersecurity professionals by the end of 2020 to tackle cybercrime threats.
You can start with an IT degree and diploma and enroll in any of the premier cyber security programs offered by some of the premier institutes in India.
Here is a list of the top jobs in the market available for a cybersecurity professional:
Cybersecurity Analyst
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Cybersecurity Manager
Security Architect There are many more options..
HOW TO JOIN ETHICAL HACKING AFTER 12TH :
If you are in 12th now, and you want to become an ethical hacker. So you have three options through which you can proceed in this field:-
1. Specialization
2. Certification
3. Institution
There is no special degree required to be an ethical hacker, but it will help you a lot if you have an IT (information technology) background.
Well, today there are many institutes all over the country which offer specialized courses in Ethical Hacking. Nowadays in the field of Ethical Hacking, CEH means
The certified ethical hacker who is certified by EC COUNCIL is in high demand.
By the way, some institutes teach hacking from content prepared by themselves and some follow CEH. To clear the CEH exam, you must have a passing score of 70%. In this, you will be provided with the knowledge of many such tools, which are necessary for hacking.
MY OPINIONS:
According to me if you want to make your career in hacking field then certification should be the first priority..
If you have skills + certification, then you have a lot of chances to be a good carrier.
For different types of hacking courses, follow EC-Council, Cybrarian , Udemy, I would recommend you to follow EC-Council, they provide world class from basic to professional level training with labs, books and other study materials.
2: Explore standard Linux and learn how things works in it.
3: learn basics of programming and if you really wanna be a professional hacker learn some programming languages which are used too much in hacking and will help you have a very great carrier in hacking these programming languages are JavaScript , Python and php can be also very very helpful (Keep in mind that programming is optional if you wanna build a good carrier ahead than learn at least one programming language which is used the most)
Thank you i hope it will help you
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