Hacking Defined - Profession of the future
During the last few years we have witnessed an increasing need for IT Security Professionals. This need was contradictious to the industry downsizing following the DOT COM bubble blowup. Their expertise is increasingly in demand, thanks to a boom in malicious attacks on computer systems by hackers and viruses and an array of new communications technologies, from instant messaging to voice over IP, that carry new security risks. New technologies will bring with them new security threats, which are not revealed yet.
The government, realizing the hazards resulting from security holes, presented new regulations requiring better data security, acts that drew the attention of executives and gave security new prominence in corporate boardrooms.
Carey predicted that the ranks of full-time information security professionals worldwide will increase nearly 14% per year to more than 2.1 million in 2008, up from an estimated 1.15 million in......
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