Times are a-changing .. as a cybersecurity professional you need to adapt or get left behind

People are worried about AI and they are right .. the technology is evolving at a terrifying rate and you need to learn how to use it RIGHT now

Companies are already being completely open about how they plan to replace employees with AI starting from this year

Take a look at just this year :

Google has already laid off 12000 employees citing in increased focus on AI

Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI

IBM pauses hiring and plans to replace jobs with AI

Do not think that Cybersecurity is immune to this as AI becomes more and more smarter with each passing day

You have two choices ..

Choice 1: Keep ignoring the threat that AI poses and keep doing certifications thinking that your job will stay relevant

OR

Choice 2: Learn how to harness the power for your own usage.

The problem is that most people think "learning" AI means watching the latest videos on ChatGPT and using a few new prompts

Ask yourself this .. Can you create a small AI chat-bot that teaches you cloud security or answers questions about penetration testing ?

If no then today is the right time to get started

The best way to get started is via learning the OpenAI API which will give let you access to the power of ChatGPT via APIs

Signup here : https://platform.openai.com/signup

Open an account and get an API key which you will use to authenticate requests

You can setup some usage limits so you dont get charged too much when experimenting

I would suggest getting started with the Python library which is easily the most user friendly

Literally everything you need to learn OpenAI API is there with detailed documentation and examples.

Once you have access you can now harness the power of AI functionality

In the next part, I will get over a few examples of how to get started and create a basic security chatbot

Taimur Ijlal is a multi-award-winning, information security leader with over two decades of international experience in cyber-security and IT risk management in the fin-tech industry. Taimur can be connected on LinkedIn or on his YouTube channel "Cloud Security Guy" on which he regularly posts about Cloud Security, Artificial Intelligence, and general cyber-security career advice.

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