alt Hacker NewsI 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
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> for a lot of jobs in security it's pretty hard to measure how well it's being done
Nothing going wrong: “What are we paying you for?”
Everything going wrong: “What are we paying you for?”
It’s a no-win situation unless you manage to score a division manager who understands security and understands the reports a good security division produces. And most importantly, understands that no news is good news.
Security products and practitioners are the classic snake oil salesmen. They are actually sales and marketing roles for help closing deals by emphasizing some security aspect. True security comes from general IT practices followed by engineers themselves.
People are sleeping on AI in sec, lots of lazy sec engs and architects going to be SoL sooner rather than later.
We also need to consider the confounding effect of corporate performance and recession expectations.
Cost centers in businesses are early canaries of expected pain, and a reduction in security roles may reflect belt-tightening irrespective of AI impact.