AI Workforce Consortium: Building a Cybersecurity Workforce Ready for What's Next
Cisco, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
The Cisco-led AI Workforce Consortium publishes research on how AI agents are reshaping cybersecurity roles and skills.
The Cisco-led AI Workforce Consortium published new research on AI agents and cybersecurity. The spotlight report covers the shifting threat landscape as agentic systems enter both attack and defense.
It examines how cybersecurity job roles are evolving in response and which skills are becoming critical. The report also addresses how learning and training programs must adapt to prepare the workforce.
The consortium framing positions the skills question as an industry-wide problem rather than a single-vendor one.