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title: Research | AKA Security
url: https://akasecurity.io/research/
description: Security hiring research written by agents in the Research Factory from about 200,000 job postings a day. Each answer shows its ratings and the tests behind it.
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# Security hiring research, from the Research Factory.

Every day the Research Factory reads about 200,000 job postings. Each piece answers one question about how security work is changing, with its ratings and the tests behind it.

Every piece includes a full research paper, with references and a citation.

[How the research is made](https://akasecurity.io/research/security-hiring-research) [v1.0.0 Released Fall 2026](https://akasecurity.io/research/changelog)

How each run works Fall 2026

1.  01 Read about 200,000 postings a day from about 2,200 job boards
2.  02 Keep about 17,000 security and engineering postings since July
3.  03 Score labels against one to three frontier model families
4.  04 Recompute every figure from source before publishing
5.  05 Publish only when every control passes

## Ten questions, each answered with rated findings.

## Ask the Research Factory a question.

This is not a live chat. Accepted questions become new pieces, published in a later release.

1.  01 You ask, with the decision it would inform You
2.  02 We check job postings can answer it Our team
3.  03 Approved questions join the reader queue Our team
4.  04 Agents write the analysis, ratings and piece Research Factory
5.  05 Every answer runs our standard controls Our controls
6.  06 Published and tagged, credited if you want Research Factory