High barrier to entry white-hat pentesting in SG

Understand your query on penetration testing and ethical hacking and it is a very specialised and focused part of the entire cybersecurity. You could also pursue CEH CISSP certfication program for penetration testing. In case if you are keen to achieve skills in cybersecurity, then keep in mind there are two parts of cyber security skills. One with infrastructure space, which combines networking and security that skills with zero trust network architecture; and SASE, which is promoted by Cisco, Zscaler, PaloAlto, Fortinrt, Checkpoint Technologies etc. The other one is Application security like Dev sec ops, which is part of the cloud security deployment with the Cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Infrastructure security will encompass Endpoint security, data security , network security and application security starts with identity management & application security and advances with Data analysis, threat intelligence and Cryptography.

AWS Security certification https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-... MS Azure Security certification https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certific... Google Security certification https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-se... CISCO Security certfication https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/t...

Cybersecurity career can progress to become a certified CISO (Chief information security officer), which has a certification programme https://ciso.eccouncil.org/cciso-certification/

-Gautam​​​