TechRepublic's Karen Roby talked with Awake Security CEO Rahul Kashyap about artificial intelligence (AI) and the cybersecurity skills gap. The following is an edited transcript of their interview. Rahul Kashyap: There is a perception in the industry that AI can solve a lot of challenges, particularly in the skills gap challenge that we face in cybersecurity. And that's true to some extent, but one of the problems I am seeing as people deploy some of the AI technology is that several leaders see that now they have automated a lot of the mundane tasks, and a lot of the complex tasks are now piling up for the advanced people. It's hitting an imbalance where some of the stuff which was easier is getting done faster, and the tough stuff is piling up now as a result.

TechRepublic's Karen Roby talked with Awake Security CEO Rahul Kashyap about artificial intelligence (AI) and the cybersecurity skills gap. The following is an edited transcript of their interview. Rahul Kashyap: There is a perception in the industry that AI can solve a lot of challenges, particularly in the skills gap challenge that we face in cybersecurity. And that's true to some extent, but one of the problems I am seeing as people deploy some of the AI technology is that several leaders see that now they have automated a lot of the mundane tasks, and a lot of the complex tasks are now piling up for the advanced people. It's hitting an imbalance where some of the stuff which was easier is getting done faster, and the tough stuff is piling up now as a result.