{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cybersecurity Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"87% of Companies Were Hit by an AI Cyber Attack. The Fix Is a Skills Problem, Not a Headcount One","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a032166c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":674,"description":"\n        This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/87percent-of-companies-were-hit-by-an-ai-cyber-attack-the-fix-is-a-skills-problem-not-a-headcount-one.\nAI-driven attacks hit 87% of organizations last year. Why the cybersecurity bottleneck is now skills, not headcount and how AI security became its own discipl\nCheck more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity.\n            You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #ciat, #cybersecurity-skills, #software-engineering, #llms, #machine-learning, #ai, #good-company,  and more.\nThis story was written by: @ishanpandey. Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page,\n            and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nCybercrime is on track to cost $10.5T a year; 87% of organizations were hit by an AI-driven attack in the past year, and only about 26% feel confident they can detect one.\n\nThe binding constraint is people, not tools. In 2025, ISC2 stopped publishing its long-running \"4.7M-person workforce gap\" and reframed the problem as skills: 95% of teams report a gap and AI is the #1 most-needed skill (41%), for the second year running.\n\nAI security is professionalizing into its own discipline. CompTIA's SecAI+ (launched Feb 2026) is the first certification built solely for it — weighted 40% toward hands-on defense of AI systems, not theory.\n\nThe under-covered frontier is insider / \"shadow AI\" risk — staff pasting sensitive data into AI tools — which CIAT's Brad Smith flags as a top challenge alongside AI-powered phishing.\n\nEmployers want \"force multipliers,\" not replacements; the durable skill is the dual ability to defend AI systems and deploy AI defensively, with the governance literacy to manage the risk. Cybercrime is on track to cost $10.5T a year; 87% of organizations were hit by an AI-driven attack in the past year, and only about 26% feel confident they can detect one.\n\nThe binding constraint...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/SySK4I0jwuU6AzeawZdYiDqTq8yzBjxJ5qfTpUuAxEo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMjY2LzE2ODM1/ODIzNTYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}