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AI security training gap and LLM-driven attack surface anxiety in AppSec teams

March 24, 2026r/AskNetsec

In r/AskNetsec, practitioners describe being expected to secure AI-integrated products without training, while leadership pushes LLM rollouts that expand attack surface and strain understaffed teams.

Anyone else in security feeling like they're expected to just know AI security now without anyone actually training them on it?
Then over the last year and a half my org shipped a few AI integrated products and suddenly I'm the person expected to have answers about things I've genuinely never been trained for.
Truly learning and trying to wrangle things on the fly while being extremely short staffed
My read is most of the executives pushing LLMs don’t understand the actual useful applications for it
All while increasing our atta
r/AskNetsec
ai securitytraining gapattack surfaceattack surface

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