alt Hacker NewsAlso decline in Security engineer by 0.35% doesn't make sense by conventional wisdom. Shouldn't it be increasing due to increased demand for security in all ai integrations?
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Most companies don’t care about security beyond window dressing and getting whatever certification required to close deals.
Time for budget cuts? Cut the Security team!
From what I can see, being closer than the average engineer to the space (but not an expert on my own), a few things are happening:
* Engineers are being pushed for ownership of security more directly. You still need someone on the team to guide and support them, but they're not going to be directly involved all of the time.
* Significant amounts of automation and centralized security. Supply chain management is a double edge sword. It does open up vulnerabilities, but you can simply pay one of the SaaS companies in the space to help with a lot of the heavy lifting.
* Commoditization/Platform-ification drastically reduces attack vectors.
OWASP has a nice comparison from over the years: https://github.com/OWASP/Top10/blob/master/2021-2003_Compari...
The "S" in "AI" famously stands for "security", so no humans needed anymore.
if everything goes down 8%, the one that loses only 0,35% is a relative winner.
Bold of you to assume there is any demand for security in AI integrations. It's like 90s web browsers, everyone's running random MCP servers that do god knows what.
I think it's because companies are moving away from in-house security and hiring 3rd party companies for security work. It also depends on the time of year this was taken. Q4 is the busiest time for security. Q1 is the slowest.
I'm a security consultant and work with multiple companies that provide security services. Work has increased massively in the last year.
Why do you think there is increased demand for security in AI integrations?
I wouldn't be surprised by a drop in security postings. Quite a few companies view security as an "overhead" so the siren call of reducing that overhead by introducing AI is a thing.
Also for a lot of jobs in security it's pretty hard to measure how well it's being done, so if the AI based solutions are worse, that might not show up for a while