guwahati with networking technology becoming more and more vulnerable by the day and cyber hackers ruling the roost college students and working professionals are queuing up at institutes to learn how to combat the menace different computer institutes in the city on their part are coming up with more and more courses related to cyber security and ethical hacking to cash in on the trend some learners have also started taking ethical hacking as a professional tool to get a better grip on the it system while others treat it as a pastime the ones who go for proper courses shell out anywhere between rs 10000 and rs 2 lakh depending on the duration of the course we have 30 students we offer courses of different durations varying between two months and three years most of the students opt for the threeyear course jobs are available in system administration the sixmonth course covers everything in less time and is also in demand we teach different aspects of it like how to protect the system implementation of firewalls securing of router among others said bhaskari dewan centre administrator appin technology institute ethical hacking deals with how to keep the network safe with instances of cyber crimes on the rise ethical hacking provides an impetus in working in a productive mechanism it is hacking in an ethical manner there are some institutes in the city offering courses on ethical hacking without adhering to proper norms as per the ec council any person applying for this course must have two years experience in a networking administration as a system administrator in an organization and the superior there must issue a reference letter however since most people pursuing this course dont fulfil the criteria it amounts to flouting of the norms it is not that viable for the northeast as it is still technologically backward said parijat purkayastha an it professional who runs a networking institute he added that his institute has stopped imparting ethical hacking to students before we enrol the students we make the students sign a code of ethics and teach them about cyber crime laws most of the students go outside the state after their completion of the course said nabajyoti a technical instructor