AI is about to create these new Cybersecurity roles

Get ready for these upcoming cybersecurity job postings !

AI has made quite a few people nervous about their futures job and Cybersecurity is no exception. Everyone from software engineers, content writers and Cybersecurity professionals are trying to find a way to navigate this new and exciting field

Given how fast the technology is evolving and taking over things human uses to do .. it is natural that to be worried about the future

So the million dollar question remains .. Will AI replace Cybersecurity jobs ??

The answer like I wrote earlier is YES and NO

There are many jobs requiring minimum skill that will get replaced however AI is going to create as many jobs as it displaces

In this article I want to go over a few new job roles that I predict are going to become more and more common as AI adoption increases in the coming months and years

NOTE: I am not taking here about roles that will get enhanced and more productive like incident response or threat intel but entirely NEW roles that we can expect to start showing up

1 — AI security analysts

Similar to the cybersecurity analysts of today but instead of monitoring and assessing infra or applications; AI security analysts will be required to assess AI based applications and identify potential security weaknesses that can be exploited. This would require a thorough knowledge of how AI applications work, how machine learning algorithms are fine tuned and where weaknesses can come in. Attacks on AI based applications are a reality and AI security analysts will be the go-to person to mitigate them

2 — AI penetration tester / threat hunter

Penetration testing and threat hunting have come a long way in the past few decades. It has now matured tremendously but AI based penetration testing is still quite niche in the market

These professionals will need to leverage custom tooling to proactively assess AI applications against attacks like membership inference, data poisoning, model poisoning etc. Expect this field to be red hot in the coming years as AI adoption goes through the roof !

3 — AI Governance and ethics specialist

AI is still pretty much an unregulated space but all that is expected to change in the coming years. Regulations are coming in to make sure that these technologies do not carry over human biases and prejudices in their decision making. AI Governance and ethics specialists will need to make sure appropriate guidelines and standards are present for the usage of AI. Expect the upcoming AI act to have the same impact as GDPR did for privacy.

4 — AI security auditor

As AI driven applications become more and more common, management will want independent confirmation that these applications are being built as per best practices. This is where AI security auditors will come into play. We already have an ISO guideline on the way that “aims to provide information to organizations to help them better understand the consequences of security threats to AI systems, throughout their lifecycle, and descriptions of how to detect and mitigate such threats”

5 — AI risk management officer

AI security does not exist in a vacuum and needs to be part of an overall framework. An AI risk officer will be responsible for ensuring that there is a proper risk management framework in place for the identification, mitigation and oversight of such risks. I expect this to fall under the Operational Risk wing of Risk Management departments in the future.

6 — Head of AI security

Lastly, we have the Head of AI security position which I expect will become as common as we see “Head of Application Security” or “Head of DevSecOps” nowadays. CISOs will want someone to have strategic oversight of AI based risks and this is where this position will come in. The Head of AI security will own the AI security roadmap and lead a team of AI security professionals to make sure no data breach happens in the AI space

There you have it. I hope you realize that this is an exciting time to be involved in the AI security space. If you find this topic interesting, check out my book on A.I. governance and Cybersecurity, which goes over new types of AI risks and how to mitigate them.

Taimur Ijlal is a multi-award-winning, information security leader with over two decades of international experience in cyber-security and IT risk management in the fin-tech industry. Taimur can be connected on LinkedIn or on his YouTube channel “Cloud Security Guy” on which he regularly posts about Cloud Security, Artificial Intelligence, and general cyber-security career advice.

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