Cybersecurity Intelligence

AI is compressing entry-level SOC Tier-1 work (alert triage, routine log review) faster than it's creating junior roles to replace it: SANS' 2026 workforce survey found 52% of security professionals expect AI to reduce entry-level demand specifically. The roles growing instead sit on top of that compression: adversarial testing of the AI systems doing the compressing, and governing how they get deployed.

NIS2, DORA, and the EU AI Act have created what European recruiters describe as a sustained compliance-hiring wave, not a spike, because none of the three are optional and all three require role-specific, documented, auditable training. Each EU member state transposes NIS2 into its own national law on its own timeline, so tracking which version applies where is now a real part of the job.

"AI security" is splitting into distinct disciplines rather than staying a sub-skill inside general security work: adversarial testing, model governance, and third-party AI risk are becoming separate hiring lines with their own job titles.