Demand for cybersecurity pros with AI skills is reaching a 'fever pitch'

Aaron Levie said cybersecurity will be "one of the hottest, if not the hottest, job categories." Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tech leaders, including Box's Aaron Levie, have said that AI will lead to more cybersecurity jobs.

A Cloudflare exec said the war for talent with deep AI and security expertise has hit a "fever pitch." AI is creating more threat and defense capabilities, leading to changes to cybersecurity work.

Cybersecurity may be AI's next big jobs boom.

Box CEO Aaron Levie recently posted on X that AI for cybersecurity "is about to go vertical" as models become increasingly capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.

That, he told Business Insider, could make cybersecurity "one of the hottest, if not the hottest, job categories." As threats multiply, companies need systems that can prioritize alerts, investigate risk, recommend fixes, and automate remediation.

Humans, Levie said, will remain responsible for oversight and the highest-stakes decisions.

The CEO said he expects "massive" investments in the space, both in the technology itself and in the "expert operators" needed to make it effective.

"You're going to have so much more talent that gets pumped into this industry because of the amount of risks that are starting to be uncovered," Levie said.

Levie isn't the only one making this prediction.

Cybersecurity stocks are booming, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that roles like information security analysts, a central title in the field, will grow by 21% between 2025 and 2035.

It also ranks the role among the top 20 fastest-growing occupations in the timeframe.

Evolving threats Security leaders have warned for years that the threat landscape is worsening.

Over the past year, though, those concerns have become more real.

Anthropic has warned that its Mythos model could be used to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities.