Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to take your cybersecurity job. Or, AI will save your job.
Well, which is it?
As with all things security-related, AI-related and employment-related, it’s complicated.
How AI creates jobs
A major reason it’s complicated is that AI is helping to increase the demand for cybersecurity professionals in two broad ways. First, malicious actors use AI to get past security defenses and raise the overall risk of data breaches. The bad guys can increasingly use AI-based tools for improved reconnaissance and target profiling. It enables more sophisticated social engineering tactics, including deepfake impersonation and large-scale disinformation campaigns, while also facilitating the evasion of detection systems through adversarial AI techniques. Plus, AI helps attackers automate vulnerability scanning, exploitation and data exfiltration processes, making complex cyberattacks more accessible to less skilled individuals and potentially increasing the scale and impact of breaches.
Second, the deployment of AI expands the attack surface at organizations and the number of vectors available for attackers to exploit. According to IBM’s 2024 Cost Of A Data Breach Report, “The continuing race to ..
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