Ethical Hacking Scope

Ethical hacking is a broad field in itself and deal with many kinds of attacks, and some sophisticated too.
Every IT organisation which is dealig with USERS and their data with privacy contents needs an ethical hacker to secure their domain.
If we talk about SCOPE.
Yes there are loads of STARTUPS , aka well funded. They need Bug reporting mechanism to make their security robust like FLIPKART.
Either they do it by HIRING securoty guys within organisation or outsource using bug bounty programme. By any mean but they really need it.
Nowdays ethical hacking workshops are growing rapidly in india and they are awaring students to how to become a part of this CHALLANGING field. Ethucal hacking is not just the use to automated tools agains web apps or servers, its deeply about how you can pentest a project MANUALLY using your out box thinking, tools are just a way to perform your action.
If you are a noob just try to spend your time on hackerone and bugcrowd, you will get the idea about the real scenerio that how a hacker dig his mind to get something over web apps.
So now job prospect, Yes it is well paid job nowadays but in India its is just getting boom until PEOPLE understand the importance of ethical hacker for their organisation, like in foreign countries.

An ethical hacker is the computer or networking expert who hacks the computer network in order to test security vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could potentially exploit. An ethical hacker is also sometimes called as white hat hacker because it is legal and done to keep corporate networks more secure.
#Difference Between Ethical Hackers and Real Hackers
Ethical hackers are the trusted hackers who finds the security vulnerabilities in the system and prevent it from being hacked by hackers While real hackers performs hacking to get unauthorized access to a computer system or a resource for some criminal intentions.
Skills Required:
To prove yourself in the field of ethical hacking, you should have motivation, dedication, initiative, self-education, hark working and formal training in ethical hacking. Evaluate your strengths , interests and earn skills in programming languages. In addition to programming skills, knowledge in networking field and SQL is also required. Some of the common hacking tools are Nmap, Nessus, Cain & Abel, Net Stumbler, SQL Map, etc.
If you are interested in ethical hacking, then you must have basic knowledge of computer. It will be helpful and beneficial for you to pursue this course after a degree or diploma in computer science. The admission to this course is based upon your computer knowledge including web servers, networking protocols, operating systems and academic background.