Where can you specialize in cybersecurity and why is it a great idea?

The cybersecurity sector is in crisis, although not for the reasons you are imagining: by 2022, companies will face a shortage of 1.8 million jobs in cybersecurity, according to data from the Center for Cyber ​​Safety and Education.We are talking about the fastest growing sectors, one that moves more than 60,000 million euros a year.Only in Spain, 37% of ICT employees are dedicated full time to cybersecurity . Related

And yes, there is a lot of money at stake: for the past 3 years, the company dedicated to detecting security failures HackerOne paid 18.8 million dollars in professional rewards for finding serious holes in different systems and apps.

It's not just a career spurred by onerous awards: full-time experts maintaining the integrity of medical equipment, business security professionals- from security cameras to advanced home automation -, the range of options is huge.

Moreover, the insurance companies have found a new commercial reef here: the different clauses and contracts finally contemplate varying degrees of protection on our data in the cloud, on the thefts to customers coming from massive leaks and contracting packages with security advisors included. As the technification of our communications and the rise of eCommerce advances, more professionals in the sector will demand .

TO 1,000 DOLLARS THE FAILURE

Google is one of the "bookmakers" that have most pushed the winning test.Developing as it is the most used browser on the planet, Chrome, and the Android mobile operating system, are aware of the importance that it could lead to a severe failure in your internal code .

Su'Google Play Security Rewards Program 'is a program created to detect vulnerabilities both within the OS and within third-party apps.If you hack Tinder, Dropbox or Line, you should only communicate to developers as you have found the problem and In return, Google rewards 1,000 for finding the bug and another 1,000 for resolving it .

What is known as a hackiner has managed to feed more than the ego of many hackers: Nathaniel Wakelam has set a record by finding about 350 vulnerabilities. His is a salary of 250,000 dollars a year, achieved with just 21 years old , wandering around different coffee shops with public WiFi.More amazing were the 10,000 dollars received by a 10-year-old boy, a native of Helsinki (Finland), from which he could delete comments on Instagram profiles.

PROFESSIONAL OR SELF-TEACHED, YOU MUST LIVE

With the DEF CON and Black Hat face-to-face in Las Vegas, ShmooCon in Washington DC, ToorCon, in San Diego, THOTCON in Chicago, TROOPERS Heidelberg (Germany), Nuit du Hack in Paris, Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg and the NorthSec in Montreal (Canada), the tour of opportunities is greater than ever.

BugCrowd or Exodus Intelligence have paid sums of half a million dollars to find serious failures in different Apple gadgets.The Hack the Pentagon event has more than 500 registered participating members.

That if: be professional or self-taught, the solitary life of television fictions will not help you.It is not just about keeping correspondence with the classmates of the Informatica degrees or the training cycles: sooner or later you will need a hiring.You can live on prizes.

Of course, you can also specialize and distribute your own knowledge through conferences, tutorials, MOOCs or different certifications and security tools designed by yourself.

SOME OPTIONS

The Polytechnic University of Catalonia also has a Master in cybersecurity based on Dell's FlexiLabs 2.0 solution, and Carlos III Madrid University has different postgraduate studies, in addition to its Master's Degree in Cybersecurity with the admission period currently The European University of Madrid offers something similar in the Campus of Villaviciosa de Odon, Madrid .

The Polytechnic University of Madrid has a Master's degree in computer security, face-to-face.The International University of La Rioja/University on the Internet has been offering another Master's Degree in Computer Security for two years, and n collaboration with INCIBE.

In the NESEM Business School King Juan Carlos University/University of Nebrija you can access a Master of similar characteristics worth 1,970 euros .There is, in fact, both a face-to-face and online model.Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineers has an interesting Master of similar characteristics, face-to-face.And the same can be found at the Camilo Jose Cela University.They can be developed in Madrid, Valencia, Seville and Bilbao and have the endorsement of the company CyberSOC Deloitte.

The offer, as you can see, is real and wide, and is supervised by a large network of professionals.

THE INCIBE OFFER

The National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), an agency under the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda, also has its own programs to be a professional specialized in cybersecurity.And let's not forget: it is not necessary to save to pay for Master, we can also access free online training models in cybersecurity, opt for the different scholarships and research grants.

Because it's not just about thinking about software and commercial hardware solutions, but about designing the security of the future.This global lack in the sector, these urgent vacancies, make it clear that both the Security Forces and Bodies of the State need a new training in cybersecurity crimes that could come in the future, and we, as users, must pay enough attention to this problem.

We have already said that the Wannacry has taught us many things but an essential one: We need to strengthen the walls of digital security to continue living in this space under minimum certifications of trust.

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