India, Aug. 25 -- India's digital economy is expanding faster than its supply of people who can defend it. Recent advancements in Generative AI, and LLM based systems being used to breach security perimeters of large Banks, fintech platforms, hospitals, government portals and e-commerce companies have raised serious safety concerns.

Career prospects for ethical hackers remain very bright since they form the first perimeter of defence against such breaches. Three forces are primarily driving hiring right now. First, India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act is pushing companies to formally invest in security compliance, which means dedicated security hires rather than IT staff handling it on the side. Second, the shift to cloud ...