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How do I start a career in Ethical hacking?

By:- Shubham Yadav [Certified Ethical Hacker]

How do I start a career in Ethical hacking?

Career in Ethical hacking:

As we might be knowing the growth of digitization throughout the world, especially in India. In order to withstand, big companies and organization are switching to digital network throughout the scope such as Setting up the website, huge data center, web application management system, etc.

As most of the data of the clients as well as the employees are over these networks. The Network is the way through which we all connected to transmit the data, As a result, we are positioned in a high Information security threat. The ethical hacker will ensure Network security and fix the vulnerability with patches. Also, the increasing number of cyber attack is also a concern of cybersecurity experts. So just establishing tight security and encryption of data over the networks we will keep away the notary hackers. This opens the career gate for Ethical hackers. According to NASCOM, India will require at least 77,000 ethical hackers every year, Whereas only 15,000 of the same have produced.

Skills required:

• Learn at least 3-4 programming language (especially python and C program)

• Knowledge of a variety of operating systems (Microsoft Windows, various versions of Linux, etc).

• Knowledge of assembly language is essential for those who want to analyze disassembled binaries.

• Ethical Hacker has to know to work with Web app penetration testing and some tools like Cain and Abel, Nessus, Nmap, Net Stumbler, SQL map etc.

• To become a certified hacker, one may rely on certification courses like CEH, ECSA, CCISO from authorized Institutions.

Why CEH certification is needed:

A CEH (certified Ethical hacker) is an expert in hacking, who can understand and helps companies to realize their weaknesses and vulnerabilities in a targeted system. The CEH(certified ethical hacker) exam is designed to test the professionals of cybersecurity, having required knowledge of security, risk, and countermeasure through practical and theoretical labs
At least two years of experience is needed in Cybersecurity, those who are appearing for the exam without any training.

Key Features of Ethical Hacking:

• Monitor the organization’s networks for security breaches.

• Analyze security breaches and Recommend security enhancements.

• Fix detected vulnerabilities to maintain a high-security of the organization.

• Capture the key strokes on a compromised system.

• Understand how web sites and web applications work.

• Create an undetectable backdoor.

• Perform SQL Injection attacks on vulnerable websites.

Who can start their career in ethical hacking:

Graduates having their degree in Bachelor of Engineering (BEng / BE), Bachelor of Technology (BT / BTech), Bachelor of Science (BS / BSc), Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Master of Science (MS) are able to start their career in Ethical hacking.

Where it is used:

       1. Government agencies

• 2. Defense organizations

• 3. National Security Agency

• 4. Central Bureau of Investigation

• 5. Investigative services

• 6. Financial service providers

• 7. IT companies

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