Security Expert Promisingness
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21st Century Information Security Expert Outlook
21st Century Information-rich Information Society! What are the prospects for domestic information security experts? Anyone has probably searched these concerns in Naver's search box for the word 'Information Security Expert Prospect'. In fact, when you search for 'Information Security Expert Prospect' in Naver, you will see a lot of messages, but most of them have positive comments such as 'Annual salary of over 100 million won for information security professionals, high-income professions, etc.' and start advertising for private academies that attract students. The question will arise as to whether an information security expert can really get a high salary? My answer to this is, "You can get it. But it's Case by Case. You have to plan your life well when you are young to get a high salary."
On Glass Door, the world's largest workplace evaluation site, information security experts were selected among the high-income occupations emerging in 2020. The annual salary was calculated at 105,553 dollars (about 116.29 million won). In addition, there has been a case of a recent personal information leakage accident on Facebook, and foreign countries consider the value of personal information data very important. Since the usability of personal information data in the era of big data is endless, the industrial outlook in the information security field is expected to be okay.
The Truth of Korea Information Security Professionals' Salaries
The annual salary of information security experts evaluated by Glass Door in the United States was calculated as 105,553 dollars (about 116.29 million won). Then, will it be possible to receive such an annual salary in Korea? The word information security expert is very comprehensive. There are also various jobs in the field of information security and it is very broad. The person who can be referred to as an information security expert is the chief information protection officer (CISO) of most companies. In the end, it means that you can receive a huge salary of over 100 million won only when you reach the CISO (Chief of Information Protection). Then, what are the chances that people who work in the field of information security will become CISOs? It's really, really difficult. Most of the annual salary information for domestic information security experts searched on Naver is advertisements for CISO (executive position).
The above data is a table of annual salary information for new employees in 2020 that combines information from Job Planet, Credit Job, and Blind. All companies that anyone interested in information security will know are included. Although the media says that information security is a promising job and receives a lot of salary, analyzing annual salary information shows how domestic companies treat information security personnel. The information that information security jobs still make a lot of money in Korea, unlike foreign countries, is incorrect. From the standpoint of a CEO who runs a company, you do not want to invest a lot in information security that is not profitable and only spent. This is also because the fines for personal information leakage in Korea are not that high. This is because companies pay a fine when personal information is leaked, far less than the cost of investing in information security. The industrial outlook in the field of information security is good in the future, but there is still a long way to go before information security experts in Korea receive a high annual salary.
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