75% of security leaders say threat intelligence is most valuable skill
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Artificial intelligence (AI) threat readiness was analyzed in a recent report by Pluralsight. The findings show that 56% of security professionals are concerned about AI-powered threats.
Over half of surveyed technologists are either extremely concerned or moderately concerned about AI-powered threats, with 6% saying they are not worried. According to the report, 40% of organizations have formal structured training and instruction for AI, and 74% of IT professionals worry that AI tools will replace their roles.
Over 75% of respondents indicated that threat intelligence and reverse engineering are the most valuable advanced cybersecurity skills of today, while 24% noted threat hunting among these skills.
Over a third (34%) of respondents suggested that Cybersecurity Data Scientists will become more mainstream in the near term and 22% indicated that exploit developers will also grow in popularity. Other rising cybersecurity roles include DevSecOps (16%), red team operators (12%), threat hunters (10%) and ICS/SCADA security engineers (4%).
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