Will Secure AI Be the Hottest Career Path in Cybersecurity?

### Executive Summary This article traces the evolution of cybersecurity roles and compensation from 2000–2023, highlighting major shifts such as the rise of SOCs, GRC functions, cloud/DevSecOps, and the impact of regulations and ransomware; it argues that the AI era will create new attack surfaces (adversarial inputs, model poisoning, prompt injection) and complementary defensive roles (AI governance, prompt engineering, AI-secure SOCs), positioning secure AI as a growing career opportunity rather than describing a specific cyber incident.