Cybersecurity Skills Are Changing Faster Than Our Hiring Models | Anil Saxena | Episode 116
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Send us Fan Mail AI is changing cybersecurity work. But the bigger challenge for leaders may be whether their talent strategy is changing fast enough to keep up. The organizations that succeed will not simply hire more experienced people. They will need to identify potential earlier, develop talent internally, create room for continuous learning, and rethink what entry-level cybersecurity work should look like in an AI-enabled environment. In this episode of Musings from the Cyber Trench, I s...
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