Is Your Entry-Level Cyber Job Officially Dead? | #DTF047

university socks that are coming out and regional socks like for the for the government like the public sector right and I was talking to one of the guys there and I said you know it's really interesting because I see a lot of AI sock related companies right now you know I think there's there's at least 60 of them that exist you know a handful of them out there are fairly larger than the rest but at least 60 of these AI sock companies and And I asked one of the guys that was there, I said, you know, when it comes to these RSOCs or these student-led SOCs at the universities, kind of training them, what happens when there's products now that are kind of pushing to have those 201 rules removed? Like, are you worried that this program isn't going to be useful for these students by the time they graduate? Right.

I don't want to tell you guys their answers or answers, but kind of want to start off with this episode with with that topic.

So that's kind of like what I'm wondering for just the pipeline talent moving forward is if people are looking at these roles as an entry level role.

But those roles don't exist.

Like, are we doing things backwards? Yeah, I think, you know, we talked about this.

Are they even entry-level roles? I don't know.

Because some people would argue a SOC role is not entry-level.

And some people would say, yeah, it is entry-level.

But I agree with you, right? There's a lot of new tech out there that's coming out.

I think you said 60 plus.

I think we're probably closing in on 100 different technology companies that are addressing the security operations space.

You were going to eventually have tier one, level one SOC analysts being replaced by AI.

I think I mentioned that last episode.

What does that mean for students? What does that mean for what they're being trained for today? And how do they break into this market? I think that's a really good topic for today.

Yeah, and I think that as we look at the entire security ecosystem, we'll use this today as an example, but I don't think it's going to replace jobs or remove ability for us to get talent into the industry.

I think it's just going to change how we do business.

If you think about doing math with an abacus and then you – move to writing down formulas, and then you move to a calculator.

It's just the tools that we use to do the job that we're doing.

And I think we have an opportunity here to upskill even those folks who have not even started yet in the industry.

Upskill them at college, upskill them through internships, upskill them through the knowledge that they're gaining through certification prior to joining a company.

So that's where I would hope is the future of this.

Let's have this conversation, Troy, because I don't necessarily agree with that completely.

I think there are going to be tasks that are going to be handled by AI.

I think there's no question.

And whether that takes away jobs, I think that's where we need to have a conversation.