The benefit of upskilling in different areas in your own time is that you set yourself apart when it comes to the job market, employers are typically looking for a few essential criteria, and almost everyone who gets to interview stage will have met that criteria. So how do you set yourself apart beyond that? By keeping yourself current, knowledgeable, skilled and passionate.

This is also true if you are looking into ethical hacking as a career switch, the more you can get across to a potential employer that you are a good learner, heavily invested in the topic and keen to be at the cutting edge, the more likely you are to rise above the other applicants.

The job market in the US, UK and Australia can be fiercely competitive, and not just in the economic hotspots like New York, London and Sydney, but also in towns and cities across the country, IT is needed everywhere.

So whether you’re looking for a job in Chelsea, London, or in Greater Manchester, such as Sale or Salford, you’ll need to show you’re up to the challenge. Below we have hand-picked competitive courses to help you advance your skills.

Complete Ethical Hacking Masterclass ($15)

This ethical hacking masterclass contains 65 lessons provided by HackerSpoilt. For $15 you will join the other 265 It enthusiasts enrolled on the course and get lifetime access to the content. This course covers everything from basic terminology to advanced exploitation and frameworks. When you’ve completed this comprehensive course, you will be to:

• Set up virtual penetration testing environments
• Know how to detect vulnerabilities in environments
• Understand advanced client-side and server-side exploitation
• Know how to attack both wired and wireless networks.

White Hat Hacker Training Bundle (Pay what you want)

We believe that everyone should have access to the leading education, which is why we’re including this pay what you want bundle. This course gets you access to 83 lessons, 10 hours of content and lifetime access. This course is designed to expand upon foundation knowledge of hacking, delving into a deeper layer where they will break down each attack into smaller components, so you understand the methodology behind the attacks.

The Computer Hacker Professional Certification Bundle ($49)

This course is a little more expensive at $49, but we believe it’s worth the money and boost to your skills. There are 64 lessons over 5 courses, and you’ll be joining a community of 331 people enrolled on the course. This course will help you get qualified as an ethical hacker. The course is comprehensive, covering attacks from the importance of social engineering, as well as more traditional web-based attacks.

Ethical Hacking for Beginners ($19)

This course is designed to be a starting point to your ethical hacking journey. The course will work its way through some common attacks, making sure you have a good understanding of the foundational concepts behind ethical hacking. What’s great about this course is that it isn’t all about reading and watching videos, there’s also an opportunity to get hands on experience testing the effectiveness of different defences.

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In cybersecurity or rather cyber-warfare, funds are needed to upgrade hardware, technology and communications before assembling trained men dedicated to defend or attack. Recently, the United States (US) government has put this strategy to broad uses much like the military rearmament for any foreseeable future cyber-warfare.

Cyber-warfare policy worth USD700 billion

On Monday, 18 Sep 2017, the US Senate has passed a bill worth a “whoppy” USD700 billion war chest to create the country’s first ever cyber warfare policy. The draft was dubbed as a defense authorization bill and involved the use of offensive digital weapons as well as spending USD500 million in the modernization of federal information technology.

The modernization and technological software upgrade will come as handy as previously the US government sector was ranked lowly, at the bottom two places or 16th out of 18 industries compiled by the SecurityScorecard, a security risk rating agency.

Protection of strategic resources.

After the pumping many greenbacks into development of offensives cyber-weapons, US has also developed battle plans in protecting strategic resources of raw materials like oil and natural gases.

As such, the US Department of Energy (DOE) had introduced 20 cybersecurity projects to protect the American electric grid, and oil and natural gas infrastructure. Award up to USD50 million will be granted by DOE to support early stage research and development of next-generation tools and technologies in protection of strategic energy resources.

So far, the department has invested more than USD270 million over the past seven years in cybersecurity research development, and demonstration projects that are led by industry, universities and DOE’s National Laboratories.

Australia joins the rearmament race

US is not alone in the rearmament race of cybersecurity, the Australian government has pledged AUD50 million (USD39.7 million) over the seven years to build up its cyber security capability through a new cybersecurity cooperative research centre (CRC).

Additional funding of AUD89 million or USD70.8 million for the CRC will come from other channels such as from around 25 industry players, research and government partners. All these funds are part of the grander Australia’s AUD 240 million Cyber Security Strategy which formed the defensive shield in preventing attacks from any state-sponsored attackers or from any organized crime syndicates. Furthermore, the country has branched out to liaise with its “cyber-allies” in the region such as Singapore for a “joint cybersecurity exercise.”

Small is beautiful

Cybersecurity funds for Australia may seem like a dwarf as compared to more holistic “defense and attack” strategy adopted by US. But the notion is clear, each country should do its part and set aside resources for cybersecurity.

As a city-state, Singapore plays its part in cybersecurity with an upfront injection of USD12 million under its National Cyber Security R&D Program. The funding will go to finance around 9 public-private research projects in data protection and encryption as well as analysis report on malware attacks. The island-nation has recently prioritized cybersecurity in its borders and the topic even make it ways into its National Budget 2017.

Small it may be, but cybersecurity in Singapore is armed to its teeth. The city-state is ranked high and always placed among the top ten attacking countries by Threatmap, a web agency that tracks malicious cyber-attacks across the globe. In 18^th to 19^th September 2017, Singapore was even crowned as “numero uno” consecutively for being the top cyber attacker of the world.

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