The ISC2 examine highlighted a two-headed downside.
First is the expertise scarcity, with 63% reporting in 2025 that they’ve a slight or vital cybersecurity scarcity, a modest enchancment over the 68% who mentioned as a lot in 2024.
Second is the abilities hole. In keeping with the report, 59% in 2025 have essential or vital abilities wants, up from 44% in 2024, and 95% have at the very least a number of abilities wants, up 5% on the earlier yr. Survey respondents mentioned AI was probably the most urgent abilities want (41%), adopted by cloud security (36%), threat evaluation (29%), utility security (28%), security engineering and governance, (27%) and threat and compliance (additionally at 27%).
