Most of the people on the planet are curious about the term hacking and if you are such individual looking out to make a career as a hacker, then this below depicted visual graphic will be of great help to you.
Before planning to build a career in hacking field, it is essential to decide yourself as what kind of hacker you like to be. As generally hackers are classified in to different types such as ethical hackers, grey hat hackers and cyber criminal hackers.
The ethical hackers are often employed by top companies to hack into their computer networks and trace out the loopholes and reasons for security failure. On the other hand, gray hat hackers will hack a company’s computer networks to depict its security holes to the general public.
The last category of hackers, cyber criminal hackers will work for their personal gain, they illicitly enter a computer network’s and place malicious link or grab the personal information of the user or company.
In general, the role of hacker varies with the job category as information security analysts and computer programmers are assigned with different job responsibilities while they are employed by companies.
Job responsibilities – information security analyst:
Have to protect the company’s computer systems and networks.
Have to craft new security policies along with a disaster recovery plan.
Conduct research to trace the new cyber threats.
Job responsibilities - computer programmers:
Develops software application using C++, Java programming languages.
Re-checks the applications to find out bugs and alter the code to fix the bugs.
