The deteriorating cyber security situation has swelled up opportunities for an ethical hacker manifold. Most corporate entities are looking to create their own internal security teams by training employees and hiring ethical hackers. Making most of this trend are the many ethical hacking institutes in Noida, a well-developed corporate hub, who have seen a healthy rise in the number of queries received for their ethical hacking courses.

“If we look at scenario five years back, corporate were not coming out looking for this training for their employees, now they are in hordes,” said Dhruv, director, Torrid Networks, a Noida based firm provides training to private and public sector companies. “We have seen an increase of about 30 to 40 percent in the number of companies approaching us for giving them training,’ Dhruv said.

Torrid Networks conducts training sessions for on companies’ premises as well as on off sites apart from conducting sessions on their own premises.

Players say that unlawful hackers have started targeting different routes to break into a company secured information. “Hackers earlier used to break into networks of a company. Now they even try crack into their websites and web applications,” said Dhruv.

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