How does the AI displacement risk score work?

The assessment maps your current cybersecurity role, years of experience, AI exposure in your day-to-day work, and skill stack against published industry research on which cybersecurity roles are most exposed to AI automation. The result is a four-band risk rating from Low to Very High, paired with a Frontier Opportunity score showing how accessible AI security roles are given your existing background.

Is the assessment free?

Yes, the assessment is free with no credit card required. Email capture is optional and only used to send your detailed report and a 7-email nurture sequence about AI security career transitions.

What makes some cybersecurity roles more exposed to AI automation?

Roles that are heavily rule-based, alert-triage-driven, or focused on repeatable checklist work are most exposed. SOC Tier 1 analysis, basic compliance auditing, and routine vulnerability scanning are examples. Roles requiring adversarial judgment, threat modeling of novel AI systems, and human-in-the-loop incident response are least exposed and growing fastest.

What is the AI security frontier?

AI security is the cybersecurity practice area that emerged in the last 24 months around securing ML/AI systems: prompt injection defense, agent security, RAG poisoning mitigations, model supply chain hardening, AI red teaming, and adversarial ML. Demand is growing faster than supply, and existing cybersecurity practitioners are well-positioned to transition because the threat-model rigor transfers cleanly.

Free Cybersecurity AI Displacement Risk Score (2-minute assessment)

The score combines two signals. Displacement risk reflects how automatable your current role's core workflow is — alert triage, checklist compliance, and rule-based vulnerability work score higher than adversarial threat hunting or system architecture review.

Frontier opportunity reflects how accessible AI security roles are given your existing skills. A SOC analyst with strong detection-engineering chops is much closer to AI threat detection than a generalist GRC analyst, even if both have similar displacement scores.

Both scores are deterministic and based on published research: BLS occupational projections, McKinsey AI-exposure indices, NIST AI RMF role mappings, and DecipherU's own AI Security Career Map. They are not predictions — they are signals about trajectory.

How exposed is your cybersecurity role to AI?

How the score is calculated

How exposed is your cybersecurity role to AI?

How the score is calculated