SourceAI Workforce Consortium: Building a cybersecurity workforce ready for what’s next
As AI automates repetitive technical tasks, security professionals must adopt human-centric skills like ethical reasoning to effectively manage autonomous systems and remain employable.
- Published the research report 'AI Agents and the Impact on Cybersecurity', spotlighting workforce trends and agentic AI.
- Expanded its decade-long global workforce upskilling goal from 95 million to 130 million individuals.
- Welcomed Pearson as a new consortium member, and added the National Applied AI Consortium, Business-Higher Education Forum, and College Board as advisors.
- Found over 4.8 million open cybersecurity roles globally and a doubling of AI-related cybersecurity postings across G7 countries.
- Highlighted a surge in demand for human skills such as ethical reasoning (+533% YoY) and systems thinking (+251% YoY).
- Documented an experience gap where senior cybersecurity job postings grew 65% compared to 5.9% for junior postings.