Why cybersecurity cannot hire its way through the AI era

The article advocates shifting from reactive SOC-centric operations to an AI-native Risk Operations Center (ROC) that proactively consolidates and prioritizes business risk, using agentic AI to automate threat prioritization and guide remediation. It underscores the workforce implications of AI, the necessity of governance to manage shadow usage and model-targeted attacks, and the security pitfalls of AI-generated code—recommending embedded security reviews, continuous scanning, gated changes, and logging of agent actions to achieve measurable resilience and ROI.