Hardware & Networking

The ever growing technology is introducing a lot of scope in the sector of hardware and networking. The growth prospects are tremendous as the technology filed will always require support for hardware and networking.
There are various courses that can be pursued in the field ranging from certificates, diplomas and degree. There is no particular eligibility for the certificate and diploma courses however in case of degree courses one would need to be 12th pass with minimum 45% pass marks.
The short term courses ranging between 1-2 years of duration. Diploma courses in this sector allow one to start a career in the field and gain experience.
Some of the popular diploma courses are:
Diploma in basic computer and networking
Diploma in computer hardware, networking and security
Diploma in Computer Hardware and Advanced Network Engineering
Some popular institutes that offer these courses are:
Jetking
Aptech Systems
Accel Academy
Mastermind Technologies

1. Metasploit - A free tool, one of the most popular cybersecurity tool around that allows you to locate vulnerabilities at different platforms. As a penetration tester, it pinpoints the vulnerabilities with Nexpose closed-loop integration using Top Remediation reports.
2. Acunetix WVS - It scans and finds out the flaws in a website that could prove fatal. This tool crawls a website and finds out malicious Cross-site Scripting, SQL injection, and other vulnerabilities.
3. Nmap - It's a free and open source hacking tool is the most popular port scanning tool around that allows efficient network discovery and security auditing. Used for a wide range of services, Nmap uses raw IP packets to determine the hosts available on a network, their services along with details, operating systems used by hosts, the type of firewall used, and other information.
4. Wireshark - It discovers vulnerability within a network and probes firewall rule-sets. Wireshark helps you to read live data from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others.
5. oclHashcat - Generally used for the password cracking. Hashcat is a CPU-based password cracking tool, oclHashcat is its advanced version that uses the power of your GPU.
6. Nessus Vulnerability Scanner - Using Nessus, one can scan multiple types of vulnerabilities that include remote access flaw detection, misconfiguration alert, denial of services against TCP/IP stack, preparation of PCI DSS audits, malware detection, sensitive data searches, etc.

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This is a golden era for IT and Digitization in India. Now, the government too are launching various Apps (BHIM or SWAYAM) and software for general public. Hence, to secure the data, programs and software, government is now spending a huge money on its security and hiring the bunch of Ethical Hackers. You need to be excellent in this field. After doing this course from the Nest College with passing grades, you can work in any government organization like; Ministry of information and broadcasting. Your designation could be, Computer Hacking Forensic Investigators, Licensed Penetration Tester, and Information Security Manager Etc. Also, you can earn a huge amount of money while working with government.

There are three main generally accepted categories of a hacker, each represented by a hat of a different colour: white, grey and black. All of them exploit weaknesses in computer systems and networks. The differences between them are their motivations. The most infamous is the black hat hackers, computer criminals epitomized by Hollywood, whose malicious activities serve their own ends ranging from financial gain to simply causing chaos. White hat hackers are usually those that carry out their craft with no apparent criminal intention in mind. And grey hats sit somewhere in the middle, often hacking into a system just to prove they can, but afterward usually notifying the vendor or owner of the weakness.
Most organisations believe that the act of authorising an ethical hacker to test a company's defences is enough legal protection to justify both sets of actions: firstly, the action of hiring an ethical hacker and secondly, to provide necessary cover for the questionable activities of the hacker, who in turn believes they are justified by the fact that they are acting in the best interests of the company who hired them.

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First, it is brought out that the concept of lateral entry is there in engineering colleges but this concept is not available for entry into a B.Sc course. This is so since after 10th, there is a possibility of going for a 3-year Diploma course followed by 3-years engineering by lateral entry thus making it a 6-year programme after 10th before one can graduate as an engineer. (10+3+3), same years if one takes engineering via normal route (10+2+4). However, this facility is not available for B.Sc students hence it's a simple course of three years after 12th. It is to be remembered that hardware and networking are actually specialisations in the study of engineering and not available in detail during the study of B.Sc. However, there is a course available called B.Sc (computers) that covers these topics to some extent. List of such colleges is attached as a link:
https://www.shiksha.com/science/colleges/b-sc-colleges-karnataka?rf=filters&ts=22554536&st[]=106&bc[]=26&ss[]=sp_107&ed[]=et_20&uaf[]=base_course&uaf[]=et_dm&uaf[]=location

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Bachelor of Computer Application is a regular three years course that is offered by many colleges in almost every city of India. This course is of course approved by the concerned universities in its content. There is also a system in place in each university to review and change the syllabus as per the requirement. At some places it's divided into six semesters while in some cases annual pattern is still followed. On the other hand "ethical hacker's course" is offered by dozens of computer learning that have mushroomed everywhere. Then this course is neither regulated by any statutory body nor is it regulated by industry body or association. At some places about 50 hours of learning makes one certified ethical hacker while in some institutions it takes up to 200 hours of learning. For a person who is enrolled for BCA, this hacker's course can be anytime without any trouble absolutely. It can be done online, by weekly classes, etc. As it is not a course conducted as per university norm, it can definitely be taken up simultaneously with BCA.