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Why judgment is emerging as cybersecurity’s defining skill

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Why judgment is emerging as cybersecurity’s defining skill

As artificial intelligence handles more routine security analysis and pattern identification, human judgment is becoming the differentiating skill for effective decision-making. Organizations must balance AI autonomy with human oversight, evaluating actions based on reversibility and blast radius rather than model confidence alone. Security leaders need to track what actually happens when analysts review AI recommendations and validate that oversight mechanisms catch both false positives and false negatives.

Why it matters: CISOs and security leaders deciding how much autonomy to grant AI systems need frameworks to prevent erroneous automated actions with broad business impact, particularly in critical infrastructure, regulatory, and irreversible scenarios.

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