Appin Technologies is a global Information Security company focused on training, consulting and outsourcing services. The company was formed as a merger of two entities, XIRS Ventures Inc based in Austin Texas and XIRS Appin incubated inside IIT, Delhi India. Later the name XIRS was dropped from the company and the merged entity is known as Appin Technologies. From USA & India, the company has now expanded its operations to Europe, Africa and South East Asia as well.
Appin Knowledge Solutions, education & training arm of Appin Technologies, runs over 75 training centers globally focused on imparting instructor led training in Information Security, Ethical hacking, Secured Programming, Embedded systems & related IT domains. It also sells distance learning courses in over 71 countries across 6 continents. It has trained over 83000 candidates via training products and services. The company is among top 5 training providers in India according to the Week magazine.
Information Security & Ethical Hacking
Why Information Security?
After the boom in Networking and Software jobs, the past two years have seen a sharp rise in the field of Information Security. Information Security and Ethical hacking is the latest buzzword in the industry. In the past five years, the percentage of hacking crimes, data thefts, data losses, viruses and other cyber crimes have increased exponentially. “NASSCOM predicts requirement of 1, 88,000 professionals by the year 2008. Currently the number of security professionals in India is around 22,000.” The current demand for Information Security jobs continue to grow. With information security increasingly becoming a boardroom level concern, training and certification are becoming increasingly important for candidates and companies like. Need for Information Security in the Indian Market Security Compliance is must for all companies with IT backbone. The requirement is high with organizations in IT / ITES segment. Information workers lack of basic security knowledge. Information Security Industry is going through an exponential growth rate, current worldwide growth rate is billed at 21 %.
Careers in Information Security
» Network Security Systems Manager
» Network Security Systems Administrator
» Network Security Engineer.
» Systems/Applications Security Executive
» Web Security Administrator
» Web Security Manager
» Security Auditor
» Ethical Hacker
» Data Security Specialist
» Chief Information Security Officer