A False Sense of Cyber Security: Measure What Really Matters

Cybersecurity confidence is soaring. According to a new industry-wide survey, 71% of organizations believe their readiness program is "very" or "extremely" mature, and nearly all feel they can effectively handle an incident. But what if that confidence is more fiction than truth? 

Our 2025 Cyber Workforce Benchmark Report, combining external survey findings with performance data from millions of real-world exercises, reveals a troubling disconnect. 

While organizations feel prepared, our data shows resilience scores and incident response times have flatlined year-over-year. This stagnation suggests there is a dangerous gap between perceived readiness and actual capability.

Join Immersive Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, James Hadley, former Barclays CISO, Oliver Newbury, and Immersive Senior Director of Cyber Resilience, Dan Potter, as they unpack the critical findings from our 2025 report. They will provide a candid, data-driven diagnosis of why progress has stalled and offer a practical perspective on how to build a truly resilient workforce.

You'll learn about:

• The Readiness Rut: Why practicing outdated threats and exercising in functional silos has stalled performance.
  
  
• The Tooling Trap: How a false sense of security from technology can mask poor accuracy rates in real-world scenarios.
  
  
• The Experience Gap: See why managers and non-technical users are engaging more with AI threats than seasoned technical experts.
  
  
• From Insight to Action: Get a CISO’s insight on how to build a truly measurable, people-centric defense that proves readiness.