Automation may be the key to filling the enterprise cybersecurity skills gap. Kumar Saurabh, CEO and co-founder of LogicHub, and Chad Loeven, VP of sales and marketing at VMRay spoke with TechRepublic's Dan Patterson about the future of cybersecurity skills. The following is an edited transcript of the interview.

Dan Patterson: Kumar Saurabh, the CEO and co-founder of LogicHub. Chad Loeven, VP of Sales and Marketing at VMRay. Thanks a lot for joining Tech Republic and ZDNet today. We're talking about cybersecurity, automation, and filling the cyber-security skills gap. How machine learning, big data analysis, and of course, artificial intelligence, can help enterprise companies operate more efficiently. And pick up where humans... we just have a human gap. So both of you, thank you for joining us today.

Kumar, let's start with you. What role is automation playing in cybersecurity?

Kumar Saurabh: Automation, especially in the recent years, people have realized that this is the way to bridge the gap. You alluded to security gap. At many of the conferences, a lot of CISO, chief information security officers, and security teams in general realized that the problem has gotten bigger and bigger over the years. In terms of data, in terms of IT infrastructure, in terms of the pace of change. IT infrastructure is very agile and the dev ops world, in a new age where everything is digitized, IT infrastructure changes minute to minute. So keeping it secure with just people is a losing battle. Most of the teams have realized that.