Ethical hacking skills: The skills help the candidate to think like a hacker in terms of their company network. It enables you to find the holes an unethical hacker would use for their benefit. This would also contribute to determining the security flaws not only with the technology but also on the user’s end.
Network security skills: We know that network infrastructure is highly complex and requires lots of maintenance and focus. To be successful in this job, having a good understanding of routing, switching, and security protocols is very helpful. This results in letting the candidate see the footprints of an ethical hacker. A number of cyberattacks like man-in-the-middle attacks and distributed denial-of-service attacks could be prevented with this skill.
Intrusion detection and prevention: Having an intrusion prevention system for security is a key defense against cyberattacks. There are expensive systems that have early warning alerts that do a lot with very little input for the security of the system. An example of such a system is the open-source software is not. To be successful in this job you are expected to be familiar with both the commercially available software and open-source software.
Knowledge of penetration testing: It is somewhere similar to ethical hacking but here the main focus is on finding and exploiting the weak points in the applications. Penetration testing involves the use of hacker-designed tools to run non-exploit against the basis of software in order to find the weakness. This testing method allows the candidate to experience the effects of real cyberattacks. This experience in turn helps the candidate to gain the ability to deal with stress.