Intergenerational Mentoring: Key to Cybersecurity's AI Future

This editorial argues that cybersecurity organizations must embrace reverse mentoring and intergenerational collaboration to keep pace with rapid generative AI adoption; it categorizes leader responses as denial, postponing, or embracing, and contends that pairing AI-savvy younger professionals with experienced leaders accelerates innovation, bridges skills gaps, and helps organizations remain relevant in an AI-driven security landscape.