Security Managers

Communicate security status, updates, and actual or potential problems, using established protocols.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can aggregate telemetry and logs, generate and send protocolized status updates and alerts automatically when integrated with existing communication workflows.

Conduct threat or vulnerability analyses to determine probable frequency, criticality, consequence, or severity of natural or man-made disasters or criminal activity on the organization's profitability or delivery of products or services.

AI: Fully automatable - AI tools can ingest threat feeds, vulnerability scans, historical incident and business data to produce probabilistic frequency and impact analyses tied to operational and financial outcomes.

Develop budgets for security operations.

AI: Fully automatable - Budget development is largely data-driven and AI can forecast costs, model scenarios and produce complete draft budgets from historical and operational inputs.

Write or review security-related documents, such as incident reports, proposals, and tactical or strategic initiatives.

AI: Fully automatable - Large language models can draft, summarize and review incident reports, proposals and strategic documents with high accuracy when given source data and templates.

Analyze and evaluate security operations to identify risks or opportunities for improvement through auditing, review, or assessment.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can analyze logs, control effectiveness and audit results to identify risks and remediation opportunities and produce prioritized improvement recommendations.

Monitor security policies, programs or procedures to ensure compliance with internal security policies, licensing requirements, or applicable government security requirements, policies, and directives.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can continuously monitor systems, policies and regulatory mappings to detect noncompliance and trigger or perform automated remediation when integrated with control systems.

Collect and analyze security data to determine security needs, security program goals, or program accomplishments.

AI: Fully automatable - By 2025 AI systems can ingest and analyze large volumes of security telemetry, incident and compliance data to identify needs, set measurable program goals, and report accomplishments, though human oversight is advisable.

Review financial reports to ensure efficiency and quality of security operations.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can parse financial reports, compute efficiency metrics, detect anomalies, and recommend cost/quality improvements, producing review outputs comparable to human analysts with human sign-off.

Develop, recommend, or manage security procedures for operations or processes, such as security call centers, system acquisition, development, and maintenance, access control, program models, or reporting tools.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can draft, benchmark and continuously optimize security procedures, generate implementation artifacts (runbooks, configs, access rules) and operate many management workflows end-to-end under human governance.

Prepare reports or make presentations on internal investigations, losses, or violations of regulations, policies and procedures.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can compile investigation data, write structured reports and generate presentations summarizing losses or violations, producing polished outputs suitable for stakeholders with review by humans.

Create or implement security standards, policies, and procedures.

AI: Partial - AI can draft high‑quality security standards, policies, and procedures, but organizational implementation and legal ownership require human leadership and oversight.

Identify, investigate, or resolve security breaches.

AI: Partial - AI can detect anomalies, correlate logs, triage alerts, and recommend investigative steps and remediation, but final investigation, containment, and legal decisions require human operators.

Respond to medical emergencies, bomb threats, fire alarms, or intrusion alarms, following emergency response procedures.

AI: Partial - AI can triage alarms, provide step‑by‑step guidance, and notify appropriate responders, but cannot physically perform emergency actions or assume legal responsibility for on‑site response.

Monitor and ensure a sound, ethical environment.

AI: Partial - AI can monitor communications and indicators, flag ethical risks, and recommend interventions, but ensuring a sound ethical environment depends on human leadership, culture, and enforcement.

Plan, direct, or coordinate security activities to safeguard company assets, employees, guests, or others on company property.

AI: Partial - AI can generate plans, optimize resource allocation, and coordinate communications for security activities, yet authoritative direction and real‑world coordination require human managers.

Develop, implement, manage, or evaluate policies and methods to protect personnel against harassment, threats, or violence.

AI: Partial - AI can develop and evaluate policies and recommend methods to protect personnel, but implementing, managing cases, and exercising judgment in sensitive situations need humans.

Develop, conduct, support, or assist in governmental reviews, internal corporate evaluations, or assessments of the overall effectiveness of facility and personnel security processes.

AI: Partial - AI can support and conduct detailed assessments, aggregate evidence, and produce reports for reviews, but formal governmental reviews and final evaluative judgments require human representation and discretion.

Train subordinate security professionals or other organization members in security rules and procedures.

AI: Partial - AI can design curricula, deliver simulations and assessments, and personalize training, but in‑person coaching, mentorship, and enforcement typically remain human responsibilities.

Assess risks to mitigate potential consequences of incidents and develop a plan to respond to incidents.

AI: Partial - AI can perform quantitative and qualitative risk analyses and draft incident response plans, yet final decision‑making and execution of mitigation strategies require human authority and accountability.

Direct or participate in emergency management and contingency planning.

AI: Partial - AI can support emergency management with scenario modeling, playbooks and decision support, but cannot fully assume command, accountability, or the nuanced real-time judgement of human leaders.

Supervise or provide leadership to subordinate security professionals, performing activities such as hiring, investigating applicants' backgrounds, training, assigning work, evaluating performance, or disciplining.

AI: Partial - AI can assist recruiting, background checks, training and performance analytics, but cannot fully replace human leadership, complex interpersonal management, or final disciplinary/legal decisions.

Develop or manage integrated security controls to ensure confidentiality, accountability, recoverability, or auditability of sensitive or proprietary information or information technology resources.

AI: Partial - AI can design control frameworks, generate configurations and automate many enforcement tasks, but integrated governance, cross-domain coordination and ultimate accountability still require humans.

Conduct physical examinations of property to ensure compliance with security policies and regulations.

AI: Partial - AI can perform many remote or sensor-based inspections (drones, video analysis) and flag issues, but cannot fully replace hands-on physical examinations and nuanced on-site judgment in all contexts.

Coordinate security operations or activities with public law enforcement, fire and other agencies.

AI: Partial - AI can draft communications, coordinate schedules, and provide situational awareness, but real-world liaison, authority, and trust-based coordination with law enforcement and emergency agencies require human operators.

Purchase security-related supplies, equipment, or technology.

AI: Partial - AI can identify required supplies, compare vendors, and automate procurement workflows, but final purchasing decisions, contract negotiation, and vendor relationship management still require humans.

Develop, arrange for, perform, or assess executive protection activities to reduce security risks.

AI: Partial - AI can perform threat analysis, route planning and support decision-making for executive protection, but arranging and performing physical protective actions and on-the-ground judgment cannot be fully automated.

Develop or manage investigation programs, including collection and preservation of video and notes of surveillance processes or investigative interviews.

AI: Partial - AI can manage digital evidence ingestion, indexing, redaction, and provide investigative leads, but chain-of-custody, interview conduct and legal judgment remain human responsibilities.

Plan security for special and high-risk events.

AI: Partial - AI can produce detailed security plans, risk assessments and resource models for special events, but final coordination, on-site adjustments and stakeholder negotiations require human leadership.

Support efforts to reduce substance abuse or other illegal activities in the workplace.

AI: Partial - AI can help detect patterns, deliver training and recommend interventions for substance abuse or illegal activities, but program execution, counseling, and HR/legal enforcement need human involvement.

Attend meetings, professional seminars, or conferences to keep abreast of changes in executive legislative directives or new technologies impacting security operations.

AI: Partial - AI can monitor, aggregate, and summarize meeting/seminar content and regulatory changes but cannot fully replicate in-person networking, judgment, and relationship-building from attending events.