How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Helps Bridge the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

The widespread shortage of skilled security operations and threat intelligence resources in security operations centers (SOCs) leaves many organizations open to the increased risk of a security incident. That's because they are unable to effectively investigate all discovered, potentially malicious behaviors in their environment in a thorough and repeatable way. According to ESG, two-thirds of security professionals believe the cybersecurity skills gap has led to an increased workload for existing staff. "Since organizations don't have enough people, they simply pile more work onto those that they have," wrote ESG Senior Principal Analyst Jon Oltsik. "This leads to human error, misalignment of tasks to skills, and employee burnout."