The global IT industry,
serving as a catalyst for transformation in different aspects of the modern
business landscape, has crossed by leaps and bounds over the last couple of
decades and witnessed abundant innovations in more sectors than one. However,
it is also a bare truth that the evolution in the field of IT has also led to
increasing cyber risk, posing a grave risk to sensitive information and data
from the consumers, businesses, and governments across the planet. Cyber
criminals have become even more refined, skilled and collaborative these days,
which have only boosted the severity, size, and complexity of cyber threats
around the globe. Although businesses are investing and adopting new and unique
solutions for information security, cybercriminals are developing even better
techniques to dodge and outperform them.
To combat the cyber threats
in today's ecosystem, it has become much more than a mere inevitability for
firms to broaden their focus on risk management from information availability,
integrity, and confidentiality to incorporating risks such as those to
goodwill, reputation and customer channels, and identify the inadvertent
consequences from various tasks in cyberspace. Information security experts and
businesses need to stay updated with the latest trends to ensure proper and
efficient Information Security.
Since the last decade,
technology and information technology, in particular, have witnessed massive
growth to such an extent that the solutions we use today might seem totally
alien to someone from half a century ago. Naturally, the way in which we
perform our day-to-day activities has changed substantially. This applies to
places of businesses too, as the use of the latest technology ushers in a great
deal of efficiency. Cloud technology is now being used in a variety of
industries as it enables a mobile workforce. However, with the change in the IT
infrastructure, there also is a need to consider security solutions that would
address these new needs.
The real wealth of a
business is its information. The security of a nation hinges on the security of
its critical information. Growth and development thrive on information. In
future, it has never been more significant to make sure the security of
information, because the loss of it can be catastrophic.
The demand for the course
MCA Information Security was triggered with unceasing attacks on social media
and its abuse. So, there was a cyber-terrorism threat to the internet security
of our nation which it was not properly equipped to handle. After this threat
started to influence the national security, the Indian government passed a
resolution to have its cyber protection architecture in place at the national
level.
Cyber Security Policy for Data Protection
The increasing demand for
IT Security has opened up opportunities for well-trained professionals like
never before. This demand is ranged across the corporate sector including IT,
Banking, Financial Services, Police Department, Defence, Education, Railways,
Judiciary and other sectors. The deployment of UIDAI, NCRB, NATGRID, and CBDT
and Customs only adds to urgency of the demand.
To ride the wave of demand
for IT Security professionals, one entails specialized domain knowledge and practical
experience.
Quoting a Gartner report,
UGC said despite a continuing economic slowdown that has been putting pressure
on IT budgets around the world, cybersecurity spending globally will endure on
an upward trajectory, reaching $86 billion in 2016, up from $60 billion in
2012.
The approximation is that
India has fairly about 50,000 cybersecurity professionals; we need at least one
million skilled people in this domain by 2020." - NASSCOM president, R.
Chandrasekhar.
Opportunities with Different Sectors
The University Grants
Commission (UGC) has instructed all universities and colleges to ensure the
introduction of Information Security as a subject at the under-graduate and
postgraduate levels. Therefore, a specialisation in information security was being
announced by many universities in India. As there was a prerequisite to have a
curriculum for information protection, in addition, they started teaching
subjects including environmental studies, introduction to open source software
and open standards, mathematical logic, HTML programming data structures using
C and engineering graphics.
The financial sector itself
is going to hire about two lakh people with those working for oil and gas,
power, utility, telcos, airlines and government. So, the government is looking
onward to hiring such professionals for its e-governance and law and order
departments. The massive hiring is projected as the Indian information security
market continues to see a skyward trend despite an economic slowdown.
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