{"id":238700,"date":"2026-05-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/has-ai-killed-entry-level-cybersecurity-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:55:12","slug":"has-ai-killed-entry-level-cybersecurity-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/has-ai-killed-entry-level-cybersecurity-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Has AI Killed Entry-Level Cybersecurity Jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/has-ai-killed-entry-level-cybersecurity-jobs-cisoseries-psugc\">Has AI Killed Entry-Level Cybersecurity Jobs?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/has-ai-killed-entry-level-cybersecurity-jobs-cisoseries-psugc\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/has-ai-killed-entry-level-cybersecurity-jobs-cisoseries-psugc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-03 13:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.linkedin.com\">www.linkedin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n          <span class=\"\">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. <\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n          <span class=\"\">AI isn&#8217;t just changing who gets hired. It may be eliminating the on-ramp entirely. That question drove the conversation in <\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">&#8220;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,&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"\"> and the tension it surfaced went well beyond r\u00e9sum\u00e9s and job postings.<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n          <span class=\"\">What emerged wasn&#8217;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&#8217;ve been telling ourselves a story that AI has simply made harder to sustain. <\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n          <span class=\"\">Joining <\/span><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>        David Spark<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span class=\"\"> for this conversation was, <\/span><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>        Kathleen M.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span class=\"\">, former CISO, MyCareGorithm, and <\/span><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>        Mathew Biby<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span class=\"\">, director of cybersecurity, <\/span><span class=\"\"><br \/>\n      TixTrack<br \/>\n  <\/span><span class=\"\">. We were also joined by <\/span><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>        Jason Lawrence<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span class=\"\">, cyber security director, <\/span><span class=\"\"><br \/>\n      Yancey Bros. Co.<br \/>\n  <\/span><span class=\"\">, to discuss his article: <\/span><span class=\"italic\">&#8220;Breaking Into Cybersecurity in 2026: What Changed, What Still Matters, and Where to Focus<\/span><span class=\"italic\">.<\/span><span class=\"italic\">&#8220;<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p><h2 data-test-id=\"pulse-publishing-h1\">\n            <span class=\"\">Watch the full video here<\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n      <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"publishing-embed-block-iframe max-w-full \" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embeds\/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=7895069319246698591\" title=\"\"Hacking the Death of Entry-Level Jobs\" - Super Cyber Friday\"><br \/>\n      <\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p><h2 data-test-id=\"pulse-publishing-h1\">\n            <span class=\"\">Join us next week for &#8220;Hacking the End of Compliance&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n          <span class=\"italic\">Super Cyber Friday<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0will be back on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/has-ai-killed-entry-level-cybersecurity-jobs-cisoseries-psugc\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Source Domain: www.linkedin.com Every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4D12AQHfdhZb4GJGJw\/article-cover_image-shrink_720_1280\/B4DZ3kWhZgJgAI-\/0\/1777652604890?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=jM_R6BI5EWI3AMeEFrQ3nA1IKQR5km72EhDaEWXAu5g","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-238700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238702,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238700\/revisions\/238702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}