Cyber-security : An unspoken reality

One person’s paranoia is another person’s engineering redundancy. If there’s one area where “overreacting” should be the norm, it’s in cybersecurity. Lets dig deeper into it.

The basic entity which matters most in any business is the security especially when it comes to the digital world. As in the current generation, people are becoming more techno-savvy, every new technology fascinates the people. But since the past decade, technology has evolved up to the mark, and it is still growing rapidly. This has given birth to cybercrimes in the society. Cybercrime is any criminal activity that involves a computer, networked device or a network. Most of the MNC’s are dealing with cybercrimes to maintain their reputation in the market. This is the reason to boost cybersecurity upto the mark. Data privacy being the most basic demand of today’s generation has to get the supporting hand of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity has became the reason for most of the employees to fill their empty stomachs. Every role within the IT industry has a security aspect present with it. You don’t need to be a cybersecurity expert to understand that this is a growth area.

Focusing on security as your primary role opens up a world of options for you. From security operations to risk assessments, to application security to investigations, to compliance to educator, there as many roles within cybersecurity as lines of code running in your browser. 

Though Cybersecurity is ruling the world, the other side of it is also getting cultivated. Security breach or the most peculiar term hacking has became the trending topic to explore for the youngsters. Hacking is always being considered as the wow factor in today’s youth. Hackers are more renowned than the person working in cybersecurity firm. Most of the movies are today pretending that hackers are actually the coolest personalities having a hell lot of tricks to hack. But coming to the fact that, its a blind supposition of youngsters, to get involved into security/hacking terminologies and become a pro geek hacker. Though hacking seems to be lenient, but practically implementing the hacks is quite difficult. Nowadays most of the tools and penetration testing operating systems makes it easier to experiment hack tricks. Penetration testing, is a practice to test a computer system, software or a network to find the weaknesses in it. The operating systems famous for penetration testing are parrot, kali linux, black arch, etc. Actual implementation of hacking requires pretty good knowledge of every core concept in IT like networking, operating system basics, database systems, system administration, etc.

Practically speaking, Cybersecurity can be considered as a prominent career option as it has unlimited growth. It’s a massive opportunity to stay engaged and challenged. If we consider today’s market, there is a mixture of all the technologies whereas security is like ‘Jack-of-all-trades’. Security professionals are allowed to work directly with the technologies and systems which they never dreamed of as cybersecurity has plenty of variety in it. In cybersecurity we rely on some tried-and-true principles, but the tactics can change day-by-day. There's always a new puzzle that needs to be solved. With each new wave of technology, new risks are created. Each situation is a unique puzzle and a new opportunity to rise to the challenge. So, rather than losing desire by working in other trades, it can be considered as an exciting proposition to choose a career in cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity has two main reasons for a strong career, i.e., no risk of unemployment and solid compensation. What else is required to choose a career? Start learning, keep learning. Everyday new challenge will be popping up and you will be exposed to a multitude of new people, situations, and opportunities which will make you better for tomorrow.

Mr. Aniket M. Lahamge