Are We Witnessing A Great Resignation Wave Or The Beginning Of A Revolution In Cybersecurity

BreachLock’s Founder & CEO, Seemant Sehgal, is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and published a Council Post, “Are We Witnessing A Great Resignation Wave Or The Beginning Of A Revolution In Cybersecurity?“ He offers a unique stance on the Great Resignation in the cybersecurity industry and how it has and will continue to shift security strategies across the board.

The Great Resignation’s Impact on Cybersecurity

In the article, he highlights how the “Great Resignation,” which began in 2021, should be reconsidered as the “Great Revolution” instead. The cybersecurity field has historically faced a huge workforce gap due to the specialized skills that the roles in the industry require, which has continued to increase post-pandemic. Sehgal mentions “the wave of resignations coming from skilled and trained workers has left organizations with limited options. That has also started a debate on the potential causes and remedies to salvage this situation.”

He highlights in the Council Post how the reasons for widespread resignations are job dissatisfaction, insufficient pay, trouble finding meaning in repetitive tasks, burnout, and the fear of being replaced by AI. With the widespread remote-first shift and outcome-driven culture, people have begun opting for gig-based opportunities more than ever and tend to prefer working for companies that do exciting things, value their employees, and don’t intend or threaten to replace humans with AI in the future.

Scale Human Capabilities with AI to Combat the Pen Testing Workforce Gap

Among all the remedies that Sehgal has in mind to combat the impact of the Great Resignation on companies (or in his words, the Great Revolution), he believes that using AI and automation to scale the human workforce, rather than using it to fully replace them, is the key to solving the workforce gap, especially in cybersecurity. He elaborates by writing, “The ongoing debate around AI replacing humans and headlines such as “AI Can Reduce 40% Of Jobs” has done more harm than good to the industry. Employees have become wary and fearful of getting replaced with the latest AI or automation technology that their employer is looking at implementing. This can lead to fear of uncertainty, hysteria, and lost confidence in jobs and employers.”

Sehgal goes on to write that while humans are viewed as the weakest link and the bottleneck in cybersecurity, he’s confident that they are the biggest asset due to the irreplicable ingenuity and creativity that they bring to the table. Enabling skilled technical talent with AI and automation is identified by Sehgal as a win-win strategy – which is exactly the principle that BreachLock operates on.

BreachLock leverages an innovative human-led, AI and automation-enabled pen testing as a service (PTaaS) solution in which technology is used to scale what our skilled human pentesters bring to the table. Instead of performing repetitive tasks and drafting reports like pen testers do at traditional pen testing companies, they use their skill and creativity to focus on applying business context to every pen testing exercise to find vulnerabilities that cannot be found with technology alone and spend their time focusing on areas that could be impacted the most from an attack. This not only delivers more value to our customers, but also makes things more interesting for our pen testers.

Accelerate Pen Testing to Reach Your Security Goals

BreachLock offers fast and comprehensive pen testing as a service to help clients identify and prevent their next cyber breaches before they happen. Our approach is human-led and AI-enabled, which helps to speed up the pen testing and remediation process and reduce costs by 50% for clients in comparison to those who opt for traditional pen testing providers. We’re helping over 700 organizations meet compliance and certification requirements, such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA, and improve their cybersecurity resilience through detailed, actionable, and organized results and support. Ready to quickly achieve your security goals through our hybrid pen testing approach? Contact us today!