When we all hate to love the hackers we hear on the other side, they can now earn huge money online that too legally. Yes, you heard it right. Hackers despite being falling under the banner of illegal immigrants on the web who come out with the intent to lure people with their deceptive offers and then take them for a ride by squeezing their money in a big way. Well, but with this news, they are gaining money in a legal way. For this, you need to understand the basics first and see how we define terms like a hacker.
Well, a hacker is someone who often takes people for a ride. The moment you hear about this term hacker, all you get in your mind is a lonely and hooded kind of man or women who all operate in the dark squeezing your hard earned money along with vital data and important info from your machine or devices. However, the past decade has now given all the reason to reconsider this stereotype. We now have a new kind of hacker who are seen on a rise. These are called ethical hackers or the white hat hackers. These are professionals who take their skills and knowledge about the flaws in your system that companies often build to secure their data and other vital info.
These professionals work to find out the vulnerabilities found in the security along with the criminal hacking that takes place in the domain who takes care of the benefit of the bugs or flaws. The fact of the matter is, this new professional has grown up its demand in the market and even tech giants like Google and other companies are now hiring these professionals. As per reports, the Goldman Sachs the US based company and even the Department of Defense are now paying huge money to the hackers as perks and remunerations for finding out the vulnerabilities in their systems, which is now called as “bug bounty program.”
This has given rise to the new crop of startups including Hackerone, Bugcrowd and Synack to name a few that would further going to connect the ethical hackers with top companies who are offering the bug bounties. These platforms where we see the skilled hackers are seen getting struck would be rich. Thus we see how the hackers are now become the good guys in the long run. Based on your experiences, the hackers are paid and as per an estimate, the salary could be around $50,000 – $100,000 for the Entry level professionals with 0 to 5 years of experience. Similarly the other job profiles include Junior Level (for 5 to 10 years) earn $100,000 – $120,000 and the Senior level professionals with 10 years+ earn $120,000 and more.