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careers: Companies of All Kinds
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Top U.S. companies hiring
cyber professionals
1. Las Vegas Sands
2. Booz Allen Hamilton
3. Lockheed Martin
4. NBC Universal
5. Chevron
f 7. Accenture
8. SAIC
9. J.P. Morgan
10. General Motors
11. Northrop Grumman
12. Leidos
hackers are innovative criminals. Most
es org ore nf or and customers. Criminal gangs or for-
et tar gains. Sometimes they’ll encrypt data,
up a p, it. Or they’ll use people’s personal infor-
mation for fraudulent purposes, which
is called identity theft. But they’re not
always aiming for PII. Many businesses
cr from competitors —
makes tempting targets, too.
For instance, the hack-
ers that hit Electronic
Arts stole source code
m lar games. Meanwhile,
devices are increasingly
becoming connected to
each other via the In-
ternet of Things. That
makes life easier for
consumers — “Hey,
Alexa, play Dua Lipa!”
— but it creates even
more targets.
The upshot? Jobs in
cybersecurity are avail-
able in every industry
and government agency. Private-sector
companies tend to pay higher salaries
than public-sector agencies, even to
entry-level employees. But the skills
and experience cybersecurity pros ac-
pr try
and ment to the corporate world or vice
ly there will always be nefarious hackers
ut attack. So the need for cybersecurity
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