Global Penetration Testing Industry Market Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities
The global penetration testing industry is highly segmented with immense opportunities available for individuals to work in either the public (local, state, national, and transnational governments) or private sector (small, medium, and enterprise-level businesses as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Many of the most common professional titles for white hat hackers employed as pen testers include:- Penetration Tester
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Information Security Analyst
- Information Security Auditor
- Information System Security Officer
- Quality Assurance Engineer
- Manager of Information Security Exploits
- Senior IT Security Engineer
- Application Security Engineer
- Network Infrastructure
- Web-based Software Applications
- Mobile Telecommunications Applications
- Social Engineering
- Cloud-based Services
- Embedded and IoT Infrastructure
- On-Premises IT Infrastructure
- U.S. Cyber Command Division of the Department of Defense
- National Security Agency
- Central Intelligence Agency
- The Department of Homeland Security
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- United States Department of Treasury
- National Institute of Standards of Technology
- Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI)
- Defense
- Medical Life Sciences
- Information Technology (IT)
- Telecommunications
- Pharmaceutical
- Retail and eCommerce
- Education
- Transportation
- Energy