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Ethical Hacker

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By Team Career Today

What courses will help me become a ethical hacker or cryptographic professional?

The entire globe is now on online; the proliferation of Internet users will raise the demand for professionals. Ethical Hacking and Digital forensics have immense scope in India because of rising cyber crimes and also cyber warfare where in the future countries would go after military and financial data through online cyber attacks. And also since “Digital India” is coming up, the need fot IT security experts will increase manifold. The need for information security for security compliance in India is mandatory for all banks through compulsory system audits.

Ethical hacking is related to Computer Science Engineering and is a part of cyber security. Universities offer B.Tech programme in Computer Science with specialization in Cyber Security or forensic sciences, which cover the entire cyber security domain. To become an ethical hacker it’s essential to have a very good knowledge of networks & programming or one should have a foundation in Computer Science/ Information Technology through B.Tech or B.Sc. The job of an ethical hacker is to get into the mind of the computer criminal or cracker. One should think like him/ her and come up with innovative methods to protect computer systems. It is believed that every major police station in India would require at least one cyber crime investigator and digital forensics expert. Ethical hackers have a great demand in government as well as in the private sector.

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