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2025 Cyber Workforce Benchmark Report 

 

Confidence Soars, Competence Stalls: Is Your Readiness an Illusion?

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While 71% of organizations feel their readiness programs are mature, our new report reveals a troubling disconnect: key performance metrics have flatlined year-over-year. This is the “Readiness Rut,” a dangerous gap between perceived readiness and actual capability.

 

Combining industry-wide survey data with performance metrics from millions of real-world cyber exercises, the 2025 Cyber Workforce Benchmark Report is the definitive look at the state of cyber resilience today. It provides the data-driven diagnosis you need to identify hidden risks, benchmark your teams, and build a truly resilient workforce.


What You'll Get:

  • The Readiness Rut Revealed: Exclusive data on why performance has stalled despite soaring confidence, with benchmarks for incident response times.

  • The AI Experience Gap: See why managers and non-technical users are engaging more with AI threats than seasoned technical experts, and what it means for your defense.

  • MITRE ATT&CK® Blind Spots: An analysis of under-practiced post-exploitation tactics like Collection and Command & Control that attackers are leveraging right now.

  • Real-World Performance Data: Discover the average accuracy rate (22%) for teams defending against ransomware in realistic cyber range exercises.

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