Only a few years ago, the security community was focused on traditional AI risks with a bit of GenAI thrown in: model hallucination, prompt injection, poisoning, bias, and misuse.
But the rise of Agentic AI i.e. AI systems that can act autonomously, use tools, execute tasks, and make independent decisions .. has created an entirely new risk category.
And with it, a brand-new cybersecurity career path is emerging:
This is not a niche skill.
It is rapidly becoming one of the most important security functions for organizations deploying AI agents in cloud environments, financial systems, customer operations, infrastructure automation, DevOps pipelines, and even cybersecurity tooling itself.
If cloud security was the breakout career of 2015–2020, then Agentic AI Red Teaming is the breakout career of…