The Global Cyber Skills Benchmark 2025 Report

The global standard for real-world cybersecurity team benchmarking


The Cyber Skills Benchmark Report 2025 delivers insights from the most comprehensive hands-on cybersecurity performance assessment tailored for corporate teams. Based on real-world data gathered through the Global Cyber Skills Benchmark, a Capture The Flag (CTF) competition designed exclusively for business security teams, this report offers unparalleled visibility into technical capability, readiness, and skill gaps across industries and regions.


What you’ll learn:

  • Lessons from testing 796 corporate teams and 4,549 security professionals with enterprise-grade security challenges
  • Performance results from 66 challenges across 16 technical categories, including AI, Machine Learning, cloud, reversing, forensics, and secure coding
  • Strengths and weaknesses of top-performing cyber teams, revealed through data-driven analysis of success rates, accuracy, and time-to-solve
  • Industry benchmarks, highlighting how different sectors and structures perform under pressure