{"id":261575,"date":"2026-06-02T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/cybersecurity-skills-gap-fuels-rise-in-ai-reliance\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:35:10","slug":"cybersecurity-skills-gap-fuels-rise-in-ai-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/cybersecurity-skills-gap-fuels-rise-in-ai-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Skills Gap Fuels Rise in AI Reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cybersecurity Skills Gap Fuels Rise in AI Reliance<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.govinfosecurity.com\/cybersecurity-skills-gap-role-ai-for-defenders-a-31710<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-02 00:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.govinfosecurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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TOM FIELD: Let us start by exploring survey findings from Fortinet’s latest 2026 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report. What surprised you?<\/p>\n

MELONIA DA GAMA: There’s two areas or two trends that surprised me this year. The first one is that we’re leaning more on AI for security within our organizations.<\/p>\n

And I’ll explain that in a minute. And the second is that there is an inaction at the board level that is causing risk for organizations. When we talk about the first one, leaning in on AI, it’s not surprising that we’re doing that. <\/p>\n

Last year, we talked about how AI provided a threat, an opportunity and a challenge. And that is still true today. We’re still seeing that those threats coming in, they’re faster, they’re more organized and structured. <\/p>\n

They’re more effective than ever before because we’re seeing the bad actors leveraging AI. But we’re also talking about the opportunity with AI powered solutions. So it’s that fight fire with fire type mentality. <\/p>\n

If those attacks are coming in using AI at that speed, you need that speed and intelligence on the defense side to be able to detect that small little change on your network and be able to flip that up to a senior security personnel that can then decide how to deal with it. That’s the focus this year. And we’re seeing a lot of discussion around that. <\/p>\n

Leaders are already saying that they’re seeing their security teams be more effective because of this. And they’re trusting AI a lot more because to do core security functions that they weren’t able to leverage before. And that’s working well for them. <\/p>\n

And they’re testing that on live environments right now. So they’re live networks at 41 percent and another 42 percent are experimenting with it. So together, that makes for a large percentage. <\/p>\n

On the board side, it’s we’re seeing a lot of need for education for board members on cybersecurity in general, but also cybersecurity and AI. They may be prioritizing it…<\/p>\n

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