Since most organizations in India have an online presence, there is always a need for ethical hackers to foolproof the system. According to data from theNational Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM),India will need around 500,000 security professionals in the next five years.Right now it just has40,000.India is the fifth most cyber crime affected country. As office communications continue to be carried out on Gmail and cloud services are used to archive confidential information, digital espionage will increase rapidly with time.

As far as the job market is concerned, experts agree that lucrative opportunities in this field will increase exponentially. Since the market demand is more than 10 times the current supple, we do not expect

any recession in this field in the coming years, adds, There is a huge demand for such professionals in companies likeWipro, IBM, Infosys, Reliance, and Airtel. Today ethical hackers are not just restricted to working for the organisation they have been employed into but also gradually endeavouring to launch their own consulting businesses. The annual salary for freshers in this field can vary from Rs 3.5 lakh to 30 lakh depending on the company.