Has AI Killed Entry-Level Cybersecurity Jobs?
Has AI Killed Entry-Level Cybersecurity Jobs?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-ai-killed-entry-level-cybersecurity-jobs-cisoseries-psugc
Publish Date: 2026-05-03 13:00:00
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Every few years, security teams convince themselves that the talent pipeline is fine, just competitive. The harder conversation, the one that rarely makes it into leadership meetings, is whether the pipeline exists at all.
AI isn’t just changing who gets hired. It may be eliminating the on-ramp entirely. That question drove the conversation in “Hacking the Death of Entry-Level Jobs: An hour of critical thinking about how to get your foot in the door in the age of AI,” and the tension it surfaced went well beyond résumés and job postings.
What emerged wasn’t a simple warning about automation. It was a more uncomfortable question about whether cybersecurity was ever truly an entry-level field, or whether we’ve been telling ourselves a story that AI has simply made harder to sustain.
Joining
David Spark
for this conversation was,
Kathleen M.
, former CISO, MyCareGorithm, and
Mathew Biby
, director of cybersecurity,
TixTrack
. We were also joined by
Jason Lawrence
, cyber security director,
Yancey Bros. Co.
, to discuss his article: “Breaking Into Cybersecurity in 2026: What Changed, What Still Matters, and Where to Focus.“
Watch the full video here
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