Hardware & Networking

Ethical hackers role is a proactive one as they prevent cyber- crimes and protect cyberspace from intrusion. They ensure data security and protect computer systems from illegal hacking activities. Computer hackers use their expertise in computing and knowledge of programming, web applications, operating systems, assembly language, internet security systems, etc. To protect computer systems from illegal hackers. It is a niche skill and has limited career opportunities. However, if you able to break into your first job then it is very high paying and respected job. Most of the computer hackers have graduation degrees such as B.Tech CSE/IT, BCA-MCA, B.Sc. Computer Science. Most of the hackers are those who have excellent programming skills.

As per KPMG report, most of the top 500 business enterprises have reported information security breach in the year 2015. There are two types of cybersecurity experts Computing Resources Cyber Security experts and Information Security Analysts. Computer Resources Security experts maintain computer and network security and update security programs as necessary. Information security analysts develop an organisation's computer security standards; install software programs to protect information stored on computers, and monitor computer networks for security breaches. With increased cybercrime, there are a lot of new opportunities getting generated for cybersecurity experts.

Following are the major job opportunities for Network Administrators: (a) Network installation engineers for installing network and computer systems. (b) Maintenance engineers for maintaining, repairing and upgrading network and computer systems. (c) Operations engineers for diagnosing and fixing problems or potential problems with the network and its hardware, software and systems. (d) Remote network operations monitoring job. (e) Performance engineers for monitoring network and systems to improve performance. (f) Networking software deployment engineer. (g) Network Design Engineer. Most of the jobs are in Indian IT companies with remote IT Infrastructure management companies and IT department of Business enterprises.