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Will AI take the wind out of cybersecurity job growth?


Artificial intelligence won't make cybersecurity jobs redundant, but any security engineers not using AI in their daily work might soon be out of a job.

mbbirdy/Getty ImagesEndless waves of hacks, ransomware, malicious code, and insider abuse continue to invade our systems, applications, and services, and there is one thin red line of defense keeping them at bay: cybersecurity professionals. These days, it seems intuitive that artificial intelligence could pick up a lot of the heavy lifting of cybersecurity, detecting suspicious patterns and automatically quarantining or quashing the bad stuff. Cybersecurity teams are already applying AI "in assessing authentication, usage, and access abnormalities," Rob Hughes, chief information security officer of RSA, told ZDNET.

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