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is btech IT is good for doing cybersecurity, ethical hacking or btech artificial intelligence and data science is good which is better degree to go through this


Hari A 13th Sep, 2021
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Ashish Gupta 18th Mar, 2022

Ethical hacking and Cybersecurity, both offer great career prospects and learning avenues. However, one must analyze them through their personal goals and interests. Let us highlight some of the most important points, one must keep in mind while making a career choice in these domains.


Cyber Security :

  • A domain that cuts across multiple IT initiatives and is an essential piece in any digital transformation project.

  • Career prospects limited to the ethical hacking or cybersecurity domain, as the stream requires highly specialized skills.

  • Compensation grows exponentially with the years of experience and quality of projects undertaken.

  • The domain demands constant reskilling and upskilling.


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AI and Data Science :

  • The domain has seen a huge demand for professionals who are skilled in multiple streams ( ML , Text analytics, speech analytics, Deep Learning ).

  • Career prospects jump as soon as you gain hands-on learning. In recent times, multiple certifications and courses have reduced the barriers to entry in this domain.

  • Industry prospects are limited to certain developed streams within AI such as chatbots, NLP and Machine Learning.

  • The domain is largely spread out into multiple technologies with data at the center. Hence, this domain demands learning complementary skills and constant upskilling as well.


One must take into account the various challenges and opportunities keeping the “skill” demand-supply in mind. If we analyze the current times (2022) we see a good supply of Data science professionals vs cyber security professionals as well as better demands from Data science than cybersecurity. This might change in the future as the need for cybersecurity skills grow exponentially.

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