What Jobs Are Available In Cybersecurity?

• Published date: 26 May 2021
• Date: 26 May 2021
• Author: Sponsored Content
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

With a huge growth in remote working and an increasing amount of businesses moving operations online, cybersecurity experts are valued greatly for their services.

For anyone interested in learning more around cybersecurity, below is a list with some exciting job roles available in the industry:

* Penetration Tester

* Cybersecurity Analyst

* Cybersecurity Engineer

* Software Developer

Penetration Tester

A penetration tester, or pen tester for short, is known as an ethical hacker. Pen testers, while known as "good hackers", have to think like a malicious one – looking at the ways in which they could hack an organisation.

Organisations hire pen testers to check for vulnerabilities in their security that they can improve. A pen tester will simulate a cyber-attack on the organisation, attempting to break into a number of application systems, all to help in discovering the areas where such systems can be improved in the case of a real cyber-attack attempt.

Starting salaries working with a penetration testing company can typically range from £20,000 - £30,000, rising to £40,000 - £65,000 when experienced, and around £70,000 when a senior in this job.

Cybersecurity Analyst

A cybersecurity analyst's role is to find cyberthreats and put changes in place to protect an organisation from such threats. Cybersecurity analysts do this through a range of different methods, including managing the tools that monitor network activity and analysing what they've found from such tools to see whether the network has any unusual behaviour on it.

Starting salaries as a cybersecurity analyst tend to...