3 Cybersecurity Skills that will be crucial in the Age of AI
Learn these skills to make yourself valuable in the new age
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The Age of AI is well and truly upon us
It is time for every professional to adapt or get left behind and Cybersecurity is no different
With all the immense potential that AI brings .. it is also going to make a lot of skills obsolete
It is crucial for Cybersecurity professionals to up their game and gain skills that will grant them a competitive edge as AI adoption ramps up everywhere
In this article, I want to over THREE very specific skills that I feel will be of great help to Cybersecurity professionals in the new AI market
1️⃣ Machine Learning — Understand the engine
Machine Learning is the engine that drives AI and what makes it so amazing
Cybersecurity professionals need to understand how ML works .. the difference between supervised and unsupervised ML and the different algorithms that are present
You do not need to become an expert in data science but get a thorough understanding of how a machine learning model gets created from start to finish
This will help immensely when it comes to implementing security controls at various stages of the Machine Learning Lifecycle .
It will also help you communicate with AI experts as you will able to converse in their language and articulate skills better
Lastly it will help you train your own ML models for specific security related use cases
Cybersecurity professionals who know how to use ML and fine tune to detect and respond to specific threats can expect to be of great demand in the industry going forward !
2️⃣ AI Specific Threat Modeling
Threat Modeling as a discipline has become more and more popular in Cybersecurity as the adoption towards cloud increases
It involves adopting the viewpoint of an attacker when looking at your application entry points, dependencies and trust levels
