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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