Report on Practical Cybersecurity Talent Capabilities—AI Empowerment Edition Released, Focusing on AI Security Talent Training and Evaluation

On September 18, the Report on Practical Cybersecurity Talent Capabilities—AI Empowerment Edition was officially released at the First China Cyberspace Security Conference. The report was guided by the Discipline Evaluation Group for Cyberspace Security of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the Teaching Guidance Committee for Cyberspace Security Majors of the Ministry of Education, with Beihang University, the University of Science and Technology of China, and Yongxin Zhitong Technology Group Co., Ltd. as chief editorial units. The report examines questions including where talent is, how capable it is, how talent is trained, and how talent is evaluated, analyzing practical scenarios such as model security, AI application security, and AI-empowered cybersecurity. It shows that current AI security talent tends to have short tenures, concentrated geographic and industry distribution, and insufficient dedicated staff.

Guided in part by a Ministry of Education teaching guidance committee, the report directly addresses curriculum design and talent evaluation in university cybersecurity programs, giving it directional influence over AI security talent training. It notes short tenures and insufficient dedicated staff among AI security talent, indicating a gap between current talent supply and the actual needs of model security and AI application security. If universities adopt the report's proposal to organize training and evaluation around actual tasks and real scenarios, it would change how cybersecurity-related majors teach and assess students. The evidence comes from the report's compilers and the conference release, and specific implementation outcomes remain to be observed. University cybersecurity and related majors may adjust AI security curricula and practical training accordingly, shifting the focus from knowledge transmission to practical task capabilities. Employers may reference the capability framework proposed in the report for AI security recruitment and talent evaluation, making the need to build dedicated AI security teams clearer.