Wanted: Cyber guards for India

More job opportunities for cyber security professionals;

 Even as India proclaims itself to be the hub of information technology, it has not been able to take on cyber attacks from ha­ckers across the world. This is due to lack of cyber security professionals.

“India is a country where youngsters are encouraged to take up jobs of application programming and not system programming, which is essential to equip one’s own desktop, one’s organization and his or her country, against cyber attacks,” noted an expert in cyber security on the event of World Computer Se­c­urity Day which falls on Friday.

Government itself has admitted that there are less that 1,000 people in the country who are experts in system side programming while the demand is for around 5 lakh professionals, noted Dr B Muthukumaran, cyber crime consultant for the Tamil Nadu police.

“Policing the cyber world may not be a job which a regular policeman can execute and calls for special cyber investigative skills and exposure to associated cyber laws. There should be more technically sound professionals in the force who can understand and handle cases,” noted another expert who has assisted intelligence agencies in cyber crime cases.

Indian youth focus more on application software and refuse to be trained in system side development beca­use the easily available job segment is in application development jobs in the information technology world. However in countries like China, Germany and US, youngsters are being trained to focus on system side programming, thus helping those countries to develop their defences in the cyber world, noted Dr Muthu­kum­aran, who is also DGM, Institute of Tec­hnology Management & Research, Chennai.

The recently anno­u­nced information security policy has opened up many entrepreneurial opportunities for youngsters trained in system side programming. The future world calls for specialization and it is difficult to survive without cyber security guards.

 

 

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