Security roles will shift to managing AI tools that identify subtle phishing patterns human analysts miss.
New specialists will use AI to simulate advanced phishing attacks, proactively testing and hardening defenses against novel threats.
Training will evolve to equip all employees to spot sophisticated AI-generated deepfakes and social engineering that bypass technical filters.
Many different jobs will be able to open up with a high trust society in technology.
Examples of jobs are:
A major shift in change for IT careers from a threat response field, to a more maintenance area.
High demand for cybersecurity professionals who can model how AI-powered phishing can be used for to target market manipulation and sensitive market data.
IT professionals will be essential in developing and enforcing new policies and technical controls to AI-mimicked insider threats from accessing critical financial systems
IT professionals will collaborate closely with business units to understand how AI-powered phishing enables broader fraud schemes like payment fraud and account takeover.
Throughout our interviews with experts across the information tehcnology professional landscape, we arrived at a hidden conversational heartbeat across all of our interviews. There is a growing concern about the future of IT careers as AI continues to advance at a rapid pace. Many professionals expressed uncertainty about how their roles might evolve or even become obsolete in the face of increasing automation and AI integration. Breaking down the ominidirectional stressors that compress and shape new roles and responsibilities is hard even for veterans in the field, the technology is changing at an accelerating rate.