Artificial intelligence is profoundly changing the global labor market. While many technology positions are facing the risk of being replaced, one industry is witnessing a sharp increase in recruitment demand, which is cybersecurity.
According to senior human resource recruitment companies and recruitment platforms, many businesses are urgently looking for experts capable of protecting data systems, detecting software vulnerabilities and responding to increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks supported by AI.
Austin Cowan, a recruitment expert at Heidrick & Struggles (one of the world's largest senior recruitment consulting and business leadership firms, headquartered in the US), said that the number of recruitment requests for cybersecurity leaders has increased sharply in recent months.
Positions that used to only have candidates appearing once a year now appear almost weekly," said Austin Cowan, while saying that concerns about the "AI arms race" are driving businesses to accelerate the search for security personnel.
According to the recruitment platform Glassdoor, the number of recruitment news related to cybersecurity in the first quarter of this year increased by 11% compared to the same period last year. Some recruitment companies even had to refuse customers due to lack of qualified candidates.
The recruitment wave is taking place as more and more software engineers use AI to write code. Although it helps accelerate product development, this process can also create errors and uncontrollable security vulnerabilities.
Worry is increasing as major AI laboratories continuously announce models capable of finding and exploiting software weaknesses.
Last month, Anthropic introduced the Mythos model with superior capabilities in detecting vulnerabilities in important infrastructure systems such as power grids, financial institutions and large enterprises.
Just a week later, OpenAI also announced a similar technology called GPT-5.4-Cyber to serve limited testing with partners.
Lea Kissner, Information Security Director at LinkedIn, believes that the technology industry will still need many years to understand how to secure AI sustainably.
According to Ms. Lea Kissner, businesses are currently not only looking for technically skilled security engineers but also need people who are able to adapt to the volatile AI environment and understand how to operate complex business systems.
