Class Presentation

Rule number 10: Cyber security is huge field that did not exist about a decade ago. One of the first-class presentations was about cybercrimes. They covered things such as internet scammers, illegal distribution of child pornography, hackers, and internet stalking extensively. But what they didn’t cover, at least not very thoroughly, is the growing career field for people who combat the people, specifically internet hackers. It is becoming such a large field that there are more jobs available in this field then there are people graduating to take these jobs. So, if you graduate with the right requirements, then you are basically guaranteed a high paying job. Oh, did I not mention they’re high paying? Yeah, a starting salary for this field is within the range of $100,000 to $125,000. To put that in perspective most regular computer scientists will start in the $80,000 to $100,000 range which is already good money. Corporations need people to help defend their important data and will do a lot in order to keep these people. Not to mention the work is really interesting. Your whole job is out hacking hackers, or in some cases hacking big corporations… legally!! This specific job is called white hat hackers. There job is to, with a corporation’s permission, attempt to hack their systems and steal valuable information. They then uniform the company of the vulnerabilities in their system for a reward. I know that a lot of people, like myself, sometimes day dream about hacking into a large corporation and this career path will let you do just that, and make a lot of while doing it.