7. Randy Lariar, Optiv

When it comes to cybersecurity, ChatGPT can both help in the fight against cybercrime and help cybercriminals launch more attacks.

That’s according to Randy Lariar, Optiv‘s practice director of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics.

But Lariar made waves when he said the following: ChatGPT could help close the massive cybersecurity talent gap, which totals more than 3 million workers.

“The capabilities that they’ve now reached with the underlying ChatGPT technology are really astounding,” he said. “No one should get worried that jobs are going to be replaced anytime soon, especially in cybersecurity. It’s the ability to find and compile information; it’s like the next generation of a Google search. It is organizing that information in a way that is useful, and that output can be trained just like a new hire. 

Read more from Edward Gately’s reporting here.