The cybersecurity workforce has a math problem that isn't getting better on its own. There are more open roles than qualified candidates, burnout is driving experienced practitioners out the door, and the threat landscape is evolving faster than most hiring rubrics were designed to handle. Meanwhile, AI is reshaping what "qualified" even means. The skills that made someone a strong hire two years ago may not be the skills that make them effective two years from now.

This session cuts through the noise of workforce trend reports and gets into what cyber leaders and hiring managers actually need to anticipate: how agentic AI tools are fundamentally shifting the skill sets security teams need, why your job descriptions may be filtering out your best future candidates, and what the pipeline of new talent actually looks like and expects. We'll look at where the workforce is headed, what that means for how you recruit, retain, and develop your people, and how organizations that get this right will separate themselves from the ones that are perpetually understaffed and overwhelmed.

You'll leave with a concrete framework for thinking about your workforce strategy the same way you think about your security strategy through being proactive, not reactive.