Cybersecurity professionals need leadership skills now, not just technical chops. AI disruption is moving fast, and solo expertise won't cut it. You have to guide teams, work across departments, and influence the whole business to manage cyber risk.
It's just amazing how essential leadership is. And right now in 2025, with all of the disruptions that AI brought and all of that, I am telling you, we are going to need, I think, in the future, people who have leadership skills, people who can lead organizations or software and deploy them and that kind of thing. People who know how to deal with other people. It's like the synergies that you get by working as a team, so much greater than the effort of each individual person separately. And I think those are skills. That are becoming more and more crucial going forward. So I see leadership changing around the world. Cybersecurity professionals will have to become better leaders, not just good technically in their field. And we've done very well in that, but we cannot be single-focused. We cannot be silos, right? I think going forward, as far as leadership is concerned, influence, we need to be able to influence all of the other business leaders across the enterprise, all of the other business functions.
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