If you’ve been in cybersecurity long enough you remember the mantra of “defense in depth”. “Defense in depth” meant bigger firewalls, more appliances, and a thicker stack of tools protecting the data center. These days, in the age of AI, cybersecurity defense feels less like building a fortress and more like trying to drive a battle tank through a sky full of cheap...
Cybersecurity Literacy in the Age of AI (Part 2)
How Humans Learn, How Machines Don’t, and What That Means for the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Practitioners In Part 1 of this series, we traced how AI in cybersecurity went from an academic curiosity to a marketing buzzword, and finally to something genuinely new with the arrival of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the need for developing AI Literacy. But there’s a bigger...
Cybersecurity Literacy in the Age of AI (Part 1)
What is AI Literacy and why every security practitioner needs to have it? Is it the ultimate new skill in cybersecurity? If you just dropped into the security industry today and are listening to the chatter, you’d be forgiven for thinking that AI in cybersecurity was invented in the last couple of years. Every vendor, analyst, and conference keynote talks about it like it’s a brand-new thing. But...
