Every Government agency in Nigeria that stores and processes data should have a Cybersecurity team. It should be mandatory.
I know it will happen someday. Fingers crossed 🤞
I am honestly getting tired of the constant "AI will replace" conversations.
Most of these discussions are driven by fear: fear of the future, fear of not finding a job, fear created by a marketing report, a VC-funded startup, or a headline designed to grab attention.
Let me start with one fact: cybersecurity talent shortages are not going to be solved by AI. The industry already needs far more security practitioners than it hires today. Depending on the area, the ratio is probably 10:1 or even 20:1 compared to what organizations actually need. So whenever someone starts telling you AI will eliminate cybersecurity jobs, check whether there is a sponsor logo somewhere on the page.
Back to one of the points discussed in the Spaces I mentioned. Suddenly, finding 0-days became the new marketing pitch for penetration testing. People point to it as if that is how attackers compromise organizations every day. Penetration testing was never primarily about finding 0-days in client environments. It is a security assurance activity. It evaluates attack surfaces, validates security controls, identifies vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, architectural weaknesses, and helps organizations understand their real risk.
Everything in life follows a simple rule: if it is easy and everyone can do it, it becomes cheap. If only a few people can do it well, it becomes expensive.
The same applies to vulnerability research and bug bounty. If AI makes certain classes of vulnerabilities easier to find, then those vulnerabilities become less valuable. That is normal. The value shifts toward the vulnerabilities that require deeper technical understanding, creativity, and expertise.
If AI can find a bug, great. If someone finds a vulnerability that AI missed, that should be rewarded with a meaningful bounty because that researcher provided something genuinely rare.
What is happening is not replacement. It is a shift in where value is created.
The focus moves toward deeper technical knowledge, stronger engineering skills, and more creative problem solving.
And one thing people conveniently ignore: AI is not free. Whether you are paying for models, infrastructure, validation, human review, or the engineers building the workflows, there is always a cost. At some point, economics will push back on many of the assumptions being made today.
Long live security.
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