He Said/We Said: Cybersecurity Skills You Need In The AI Cybersecurity Workforce
We're promoting a blog post by Taimur Ijlal that caught our wandering eye entitled The 3 Cybersecurity Skills That Will Make You Irreplaceable in 2026.
As Ijlal's post says, "Spoiler alert: none of these are technical."
Maybe you notice a theme, a pattern, a series of dots: your cybersecurity skillset is a combination of computer science/engineering/systems knowledge -- education-based technical things you learn -- and skill in applying them in your team and organization -- exposure-based ways you apply what you learn.
You should read the blog post for elaboration but TL;DR here are the three skills:
1. AI Collaboration — Mastering Human + Machine Synergy
2. Human Judgment — The Skill AI Can’t Learn
3. Adaptive Learning — Staying Ahead of the Curve
Excellent skills! Note how you start your job on Day 1 with Skill 1, AI Collaboration, locked in. If you're a successful technologist by Day 90 (etc.) it's because you mastered Skill 2. Only then, to be considered a valuable organizational resource, can you pivot to Skill 3.
Remember, your goal as a cybersecurity professional is to start as a technologist and eventually become a resource. A surprisingly large proportion of cybersecurity personnel do not make that effort or fail along the way because they are not comfortable with change. Becoming successful means you work to change your behavior and attitudes such that an observer would say you are:
These are excellent patterns of behavior to develop before you attempt to move into leadership, and they are foundational practices once you are in leadership.
The alternative is that you stall out, stagnate, and are replaced.
We don't want that for you, but you must choose, commit, and act.
Changing your behavior is hard. Looking for a new job because you were replaceable as a result of not changing your behavior is worse.
Ask us how you can identify your cybersecurity skillset gaps and plug them.
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