After the boom in Networking and Software jobs, the past two years have seen a sharp rise in the field of Information Security. Information Security and Ethical hacking is the latest buzzword in the industry. In the past five years, the percentage of hacking crimes, data thefts, data losses, viruses and other cyber crimes have increased exponentially.

“NASSCOM predicts requirement of 1,88,000 professionals by the year 2008. Currently the number of security professionals in India is around 22,000.”

The current demand for Information Security jobs continue to grow. With information security increasingly becoming a boardroom level concern,training and certification are becoming increasingly important for candidates and companies like.

Need for Information Security in the Indian Market

• Security Compliance is must for all companies with IT backbone. The requirement is high with organizations in IT / ITES segment.
• Information workers lack of basic security knowledge.
• Information Security Industry is going through an exponential growth rate,current worldwide growth rate is billed at 21 %.
• Higher salaries are been offered to professionals in IT security.
• Information Security industry is currently over $ 100 billion (2006), $ 60 bn in US, $ 20 bn in UK, $4.5 bn in Japan, $ 1.5 bn in India etc.

Careers in Information Security

• Network Security Systems Manager
• Network Security Systems Administrator
• Network Security Engineer
• Systems/Applications Security Executive
• Web Security Administrator
• Web Security Manager
• Security Auditor
• Ethical Hacker
• Data Security Specialist
• Chief Information Security Officer

Opening with Paladion Networks for Security engineers

opening with KPMG, Gurgaon for IT Advisory-Executive
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