Five years ago, I focused this column on jobs in cybersecurity and how they compared to the market at large. This column is a revisit with some comparisons.
The cost of anything is the foregone alternative. Cybersecurity is fraught with foregone alternatives—what do I/you get done paired with what I/you pushed aside so as to get at least something done. Five years ago, I wrote that “automation is moving beyond the routinizable to the non-routine by way of the tsunami of ever bigger data.” It hardly needs saying that the above is even more true now both in terms of coverage (areas of application) and velocity of change. Machines that are cheaper than you, that make fewer mistakes than you, that can accept any drudgery that risk avoidance imposes, etc. are coming on.
