Data Science Meets Cyber Security

If you go on the internet and search for ‘Trending jobs’ or ‘Best jobs’ or the ‘Most in-demand jobs’ and the most famous ‘Highest paid jobs’ you will definitely find designations like ‘Data Scientist’, ‘Ethical Hacker’, ‘Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Engineer’ in the results. But what do all these fancy words mean? Let us explain it to you in a simple way! Let us start with what is DATA SCIENCE? As the name suggests, science of data. What kind of data? Let’s just say all kinds of data . The data you can count and not count, the data you can see and cannot see, data which is structured and unstructured (sometimes, both together). What do we do with this data? We clean it, we analyse it, we explore it. But why? What for? For making predictions, learning patterns, getting coolest results with minimum effort. But don’t worry, you just have to tell the machine how to do all these tasks by making it artificially intelligent with the help of data.       The moment you re

GETTING STARTED IN CYBER SECURITY With the increasing hype of hackers and there incredible cameos in the movies and series, every computer enthusiast would be mad excited to know more and more about hackers and their contribution in the cyber world. Before actually knowing what cyber security is and how to get started, let's have a look at the crazy growing field and job opportunities in cyber security. Not digging that deep, but it’s good to know that the employment rate for the cyber security jobs has marked the rise of 33% with 16,300 openings each year on average which is much faster than the average of other occupations. As we can see the rise is because of the increasing curiosity among the youth, the insanely increasing cyber attacks which is eventually leading to the shortage of skilled professionals in this field.  Before starting in cyber security I always used to google questions like what tools are needed to get started in cyber security? Is programming a necessary sk