The AI cybersecurity war has a new front line star, and a seven-figure price
AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure pay packages and a recruiting market one search firm compares to nothing since cloud. Europe reached the same place by statute, with NIS2 putting the duty on the management body and allowing regulators to bar a chief executive without any conviction.
The hack OpenAI’s agents ran on Hugging Face in July turned the chief information security officer into a boardroom job, CNBC reported on Saturday. Qualified candidates are clearing seven-figure pay packages.
“It feels like my job has doubled or quadrupled,” said Wally Dalrymple, chief security officer at the education firm ETS. Dell’s security chief John Scimone said “the ground under our feet is shifting“.
Recruiter Michael Piacente said his team works 18 to 20 hour days and still loses a candidate a week per search. Cloud was a...
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