With cyberspace payment gateways multiplying, e-payments, credit cards circulation and the country's internet user base expanding, e-commerce is fast becoming a way of life for government, corporates and middle-class India. However, the growth and intensification of e-commerce traffic over the worldwide web (aka the internet) has also multiplied opportunities for cyber fraudsters and terrorists to hack into citizens' accounts and play havoc with their finances and businesses. Cyber criminals or hackers strike through virus attacks which may erase an entire system or by stealing financial information from secure systems or breaking into systems to modify files without owners' knowledge.
Therefore unsurprisingly, there's galloping corporate and public demand for IT (information technology) security professionals (aka ethical hackers) who can counter the machinations of the growing community of cyber crooks and criminals and checkmate them. The job profile of a cyber security professional includes permitted ethical hacking into a company's network to identify security loopholes; designing security systems for business and other organisations; 24x7 remote management of security systems and firewalls; security auditing; cyber forensics (clinical investigation of computer crimes) and training company personnel to safeguard its e-commerce activities.
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