Why AI Can’t Replace Cybersecurity Analysts

As we face an extreme downturn in cybersecurity hiring which entry level candidates bear the brunt of, I want to address an elephant in the room: AI. I spend a lot of my time providing career clini…

Lesley Carhart's Cybersecurity Blog
@hacks4pancakes is it "because the ai is an attack vector?"
@jdblair not really my point in this specific article so much as BAD PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO USE IT TOO
@hacks4pancakes you left out spoofing and false positives

@hacks4pancakes of course, there are plenty of snake oil security vendors out there who can't make a sale unless they convince the buyer that their product will replace employees.

Vendors who make that claim to me rarely have a follow-up conversation with me.

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And also if they don't train up new people, then in a few years there won't be any experienced people either.

@bjb @hacks4pancakes

I have literally worked for years to fix that pipeline, but fuck it.

They want this? they'll end up with a pile of unmaintainable genai bullshit, and then I will charge them a shitload of money to tell them their baby is ugly.

@munin @bjb yea but I yell for the youts…
@bjb @hacks4pancakes feels absolutely detrimental the way mbas are this divorced from the mechanics of good people infrastructure. at this rate feels like we're on our way toward "planes just crash sometimes" for all of technology

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This is offshoring all over again, and will have the same effects. Whole companies will fall (let's we forget quark express)

@hacks4pancakes Very timely article and thoughts thanks! 👍
@hacks4pancakes Great article. I'm working on an article on how attackers use AI to generate malware and ransomware and what's already out there in the wild. It's a crazy game in cybersecurity right now, for sure.

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"It means analysts must keep growing and adapting to automation and adversary tactics."

You are damn right.

IMHO, more broadly that is a common and very ground point with all informatics domains: you can never stop to learn.