56% of Organizations Cut Cybersecurity Roles Due to AI, Barracuda Report Finds
mikeflache · x · 2026-10-26
Barracuda's Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report finds 56% of organizations have cut security roles due to AI adoption, with impacts evenly split between entry-level and senior positions.
Key points:
- AI and automation are expected to take over routine analysis, event correlation, and response suggestions; human professionals will shift toward investigating harder-to-detect attacks, verifying AI findings, making incident decisions, and explaining risk to business leaders.
- Nearly all respondents reported skills gaps — most commonly around AI-related risks, followed by identity and phishing threats. Half said teams must support expanding digital operations without added headcount.
Bottom line: security teams face shrinking headcount and widening skill gaps simultaneously, with overseeing automated tools emerging as a new core skill.
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