Semgrep eventsEveryone is worried AI is coming for their job, and whether that’s true or not, the security industry has responded the way it always does: by panicking about exactly one thing and forgetting everything else. Open any feed right now and it's prompts, agents, and a vague sense that if you don't learn the model you'll be obsolete by Friday. For someone early in their cyber security career, looking for that first role, it's enough to convince you the only skill worth having is the one everyone is already shouting about.
Here's the uncomfortable bit: the things that actually get you hired, funded, and kept have almost nothing to do with AI, for the most part anyway. They're the skills we quietly stopped talking about in the rush to the LLM.
How to ask for money and get it.
How to manage the person who manages you.
How to make a case for security work that a sceptical budget holder will actually sign off on.
What tools you actually need to learn to keep up
How to stand out when you're competing for your first job against a hundred other people who all did the same certification.
And how to make a difference to the security of your organization
In this episode of Security Rulez, Dr Katie chats with Neil Johnson VP of Security at ICE Services and we make the case for the unglamorous skills rather than chasing whatever launched this morning. Because these career fundamentals will outlast every hype cycle, AI included. Expect frank advice, a healthy amount of scepticism, and a few things nobody tells you when you're starting out.