Mario Platt spent part of last year eliminating a team. As CISO for online password management service LastPass, he shut down the company’s dedicated vulnerability management function in late 2025, folding its responsibilities directly into IT and product security. AI and business intelligence tools now handle the triage and analysis that once required a standing group of specialists. It’s a concrete example of a trend that’s largely lived in the abstract: security work reorganizing itself around what AI can now do faster than people can. The pressure to rethink cybersecurity roles for this new era is profound: 87% of organizations cite AI-related vulnerabilities as their fastest-growing risk category, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Global Cybersecurity Outlook.

Full report : Security leaders and recruiters describe a job market that’s consolidating authority, raising the bar for judgment, and squeezing the entry-level roles that once trained the next generation of practitioners.