AI Is Transforming Cybersecurity, But The Skills Gap Still Presents Significant Risk
Fortinet, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Why AI-aware security teams are now a risk management requirement
Artificial intelligence (AI) now sits at the center of modern cybersecurity strategy, accelerating threat detection, enabling automation, and helping security teams manage unprecedented volumes of data. However, AI also accelerates cybercrime by lowering the barrier to entry for attackers and amplifying the scale and sophistication of attacks.
The 2025 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap report clearly captures this dual reality. AI is viewed simultaneously as a powerful opportunity, a growing challenge, and a rising source of risk. The differentiator is not whether organizations deploy AI-that's a given-but whether they have the skills and policies in place to use it effectively.