Box CEO: Cybersecurity Will Be Where AI Creates the Most New Jobs
rakyll · x · 2026-10-22
Box CEO Aaron Levie argues cybersecurity is the clearest example of AI creating jobs: even as security work becomes agentic and autonomous, enterprises will need more talent to direct agents at critical work, review findings, patch systems, and respond to incidents — making security one of the biggest enterprise investment areas ahead.
The post quotes coverage of a critical PHP vulnerability event: two unauthenticated RCE bugs whose details leaked pre-patch, affecting WordPress, MediaWiki, Magento, Joomla and Laravel; Censys counted 1.5 million servers running unfixed versions, and NSA, FBI, CISA, the UK and CERT-EU advised taking systems offline — with Japan's PM publicly urging 48.8 million people to do the same.
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