Since Information and Cyber Security is among the most in-demand skill sets but with a huge skills gap, a lot of people are globally entering into this field. Surprisingly, many of the best security professionals are from non-technical backgrounds. The key strength is not a technical background, but your willingness and desire to learn how technology works and to never stop exploring around. Once you develop a deep understanding of how things work, the hacking (and defending side) easily follows.

Choose Your Pathway

As of now, ISEH offers three paths for students aspiring to work in the world of information and cyber security to gain knowledge and skills applicable to the career they want to pursue for their career growth. These pathways are as follows: -

1. Defensive Security Pathway

This uses a reactive approach to security that focuses on prevention, detection and response to attacks by using more traditional methods to keep network infrastructure safe from cybercrime in order to protect sensitive data of individuals and organizations such as intellectual property, financial data and personal information from unauthorized access or attacks. The tactics rely on a thorough understanding of a system environment and how to analyze it to detect potential network and hardware flaws. This analysis influences the development and deployment of preventive as well as protective measures that discourage or outrightly stop cyber-attacks. The defensive security pathway is designed to sharpen a student’s analytical and deployment skills.

2. Offensive Security Pathway

This pathway deploys a proactive approach by placing the student in the shoes of a cyber attacker, who desires to exploit a system to determine new ways to protect an organization’s information from harm. In comparison with defensive techniques, offensive security relies on ingenuity and strong problem-solving skills to analyze and react with ethical hacking techniques to mimic cyber-attacks to exploit security vulnerabilities. Thereafter, weaknesses and vulnerabilities found during these attacks are mitigated. The offensive security pathway devotes a good part of its coursework to ethical hacking and its various techniques such as penetration testing. It also endeavors to deepen students’ knowledge on cyberspace laws, policies, compliance issues, network, wireless, and mobile device security.

3. Digital Fraud Prevention & Digital Forensics Pathway

A Digital Fraud is the use of a digital means or devices for criminal deception or abuse of assets for personal gain. Digital frauds are a great threat for every organization. Rapid digitization has catalysed digital frauds and they are becoming notoriously sophisticated and complex due to speedy technology advances. Whereas, Digital Forensics is the preservation, identification, extraction and documentation of digital evidence, which can be used in the court of law. This path primarily focuses on unique digital forensics technologies significantly used in understanding of data collection, management and analysis. It may include computer forensics, mobile forensics, multimedia forensics, email forensics, web forensics, proactive forensics, live forensics, database forensics, network forensics, cloud forensics, business intelligence forensics etc. The foregoing assists actively support in investigations of digital crimes and passively help in digital fraud prevention. The consumer base of this pathway is diverse and global; it includes law enforcement, security services, customs, legal and financial sectors. Both, government and private law enforcement agencies use special skills in hunting down crime evidence hidden in the virtual world and tracing it back to its owner in the real world.