Cybersecurity Careers In The AI Era: New Roles Emerging in 2025 and Beyond

Author(s): Taimur Ijlal

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Traditional cybersecurity roles, such as penetration testers and risk managers, are expanding to include responsibilities specific to AI systems.

At the same time, new roles like AI Governance Officers and AI Risk Managers are being created to handle the ethical, regulatory, and operational challenges that AI is bringing .

In this article I want to break down these roles and (hopefully) give you an idea of what skills you need to thrive in the AI era.

Pentesters traditionally focused on finding vulnerabilities in networks, applications, and systems.

However, with AI, there’s now a need for AI Penetration Testers who specifically test AI models and systems for security flaws.

These professionals must understand adversarial machine learning techniques and how attackers might manipulate AI algorithms.

They work to expose weaknesses in AI systems, such as susceptibility to prompt injections, adversarial attacks, data poisoning, and model inversion.

Key responsibilities of an AI Penetration Tester include:

Conducting adversarial testing on AI models to simulate potential attacks.Testing AI-based defenses in production environments.Ensuring AI systems meet the same security standards… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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