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What Are The Best Certifications For Cybersecurity Freshers? by prikshitv: 7:51am On Jan 06, 2020
While an auditor while competing against the competition the data of your organization plays a significant role because it is the uniqueness of your organizations’ data that differentiate you from your competition. Hence keeping your data guarded and secured is the most important thing that organizations are carving to thrive on. If you look at the IT industry a little closely you won't be surprised in saying it yourself that more the need for cybersecurity Training their aspiration towards it in their industry.
Also, the latest study has confirmed that across the globe there are only 32% organizations that are working on a secure and unbreachable network and the remaining 68% of the organizations have undergone cyber-attacks in the past year. In fact, if you look at Asian countries like India only 24% of the organizations in India have been able to reflect these attacks. This goes on to prove that the requirement cyber secured is an aspiration for organizations more than need given the statistics in play.
In order to keep organizations safe and secured a lot of employers are hiring professionals that are either CEH or CISSP certified professionals. What makes such professionals unique are because of the following reasons:-
CEH: Believe it or not but hackers are one community that is highly innovative because they somehow find a way to break through your systems and exploit the information available on it. These tech-savvy people are always proactively looking for vulnerabilities on your systems. Since they are always finding ways to extract information from your systems without getting trapped. Hence, professionals who are pursuing a CEH Certification or CEH professionals have to be extra cautious and this is why they use highly sophisticated equipment, skills, and techniques to spot the system vulnerabilities and filling these needful gaps. These professionals are such an integral part of an organization’s system that they are offered an average salary of $150 000. This is one of the few courses that professionals can take up after the 12th. It perhaps is the perfect course in IT if you are looking for IT courses online for beginners. In fact, CEH is one of the few IT courses that can be prepared using online platforms like Mercury Solutions.
CISSP: CISSP Certification is one of the best IT courses that is an advanced-level certification for professionals serious about careers in information security. These professionals are decision-makers possessing expert knowledge and technical skills necessary to develop, guide and then manage security standards, policies and procedures within their organizations. The kind of knowledge they possess has helped them generate an annual salary of $119,184. Professionals who are certified CISSP have a great opportunity to not just keep the organizations safe but also in maintaining a balance between controlling the attacks and keeping the management in the loop.
Coming back to the original question ‘What are the best certifications for cybersecurity freshers?’ if you look at the features of both a CISSP and CEH courses you’d have found by now that for freshers the most rewarding course is CEH. Where professionals taking up CEH certifications would end up making an annual income of ₹146,000 to ₹300,000 as a fresher in this field.
Thanks for reading what I had to share, I hope it was of some use for you.

Re: What Are The Best Certifications For Cybersecurity Freshers? by Masterrhymes: 8:58pm On Jan 17, 2020
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prikshitv:
While an auditor while competing against the competition the data of your organization plays a significant role because it is the uniqueness of your organizations’ data that differentiate you from your competition. Hence keeping your data guarded and secured is the most important thing that organizations are carving to thrive on. If you look at the IT industry a little closely you won't be surprised in saying it yourself that more the need for cybersecurity Training their aspiration towards it in their industry.
Also, the latest study has confirmed that across the globe there are only 32% organizations that are working on a secure and unbreachable network and the remaining 68% of the organizations have undergone cyber-attacks in the past year. In fact, if you look at Asian countries like India only 24% of the organizations in India have been able to reflect these attacks. This goes on to prove that the requirement cyber secured is an aspiration for organizations more than need given the statistics in play.
In order to keep organizations safe and secured a lot of employers are hiring professionals that are either CEH or CISSP certified professionals. What makes such professionals unique are because of the following reasons:-
CEH: Believe it or not but hackers are one community that is highly innovative because they somehow find a way to break through your systems and exploit the information available on it. These tech-savvy people are always proactively looking for vulnerabilities on your systems. Since they are always finding ways to extract information from your systems without getting trapped. Hence, professionals who are pursuing a CEH Certification or CEH professionals have to be extra cautious and this is why they use highly sophisticated equipment, skills, and techniques to spot the system vulnerabilities and filling these needful gaps. These professionals are such an integral part of an organization’s system that they are offered an average salary of $150 000. This is one of the few courses that professionals can take up after the 12th. It perhaps is the perfect course in IT if you are looking for IT courses online for beginners. In fact, CEH is one of the few IT courses that can be prepared using online platforms like Mercury Solutions.
CISSP: CISSP Certification is one of the best IT courses that is an advanced-level certification for professionals serious about careers in information security. These professionals are decision-makers possessing expert knowledge and technical skills necessary to develop, guide and then manage security standards, policies and procedures within their organizations. The kind of knowledge they possess has helped them generate an annual salary of $119,184. Professionals who are certified CISSP have a great opportunity to not just keep the organizations safe but also in maintaining a balance between controlling the attacks and keeping the management in the loop.
Coming back to the original question ‘What are the best certifications for cybersecurity freshers?’ if you look at the features of both a CISSP and CEH courses you’d have found by now that for freshers the most rewarding course is CEH. Where professionals taking up CEH certifications would end up making an annual income of ₹146,000 to ₹300,000 as a fresher in this field.
Thanks for reading what I had to share, I hope it was of some use for you.

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