Cybersecurity Workforce Intelligence Report: Global Skills, Interests, and Career Trends

Align your hiring and training roadmap with global data from 702,226 professionals in 251 countries to understand AI-driven shifts in cybersecurity capability demands, emerging attack techniques, and the skills organizations are prioritizing to prepare for them.

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What it includes

  • CISO briefing: Translates benchmark findings into strategic guidance cybersecurity leaders can act on immediately.
  • Strategic recommendations: A framework for cybersecurity leadership to respond to AI-driven security demands, attack techniques, and changing workforce capability needs.
  • Global training trend analysis: Data across 251 countries on where upskilling is accelerating.
  • Enterprise benchmark data: Three years of Capture The Flag (CTF) benchmarks, including 3.5x growth in events, 2.7x growth in participating organizations, and 2.9x growth in total teams, showing what structured programs actually deliver.

Who this is for

  • CISOs & Security Executives designing an AI-augmented workforce strategy.
  • Red team & Offensive Security leaders benchmarking against emerging AI attack vectors.
  • SOC, Detection & Incident Response teams building integrated defense capabilities.
  • AI Security & MLSecOps practitioners staying ahead of model manipulation risks.

Key findings

  • AI is now a core capability: AI pentesting is a top 4 priority. Teams are focusing on prompt injection, model exploitation, and agentic hijacking to counter new risks.
  • Silos are dissolving: 77% of defenders now train offensively and 44% of offensive pros build defensive skills to support collaborative purple team models and CTEM.
  • Talent is global: India and the US drive 28% of upskilling activity. Broaden your recruitment to high-growth hubs like Brazil, France, and the UK.
  • Structure drives results: Organization-led programs achieve 64% AI lab completion and 80% engagement, far outperforming self-directed learning.

The data your security strategy is missing.

702,226 professionals. 251 countries. One clear picture of where the cybersecurity workforce is heading.

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