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The top three most important soft skills needed by security professionals are critical thinking (57%), communication (56%), and problem solving (47%).
9/29/2025•
HiringSkillsSkills gap
The top method to address technical skill gaps is increasing usage of contract employees or outside consultants (30%), which is a decline from 36% last year.
9/29/2025•
SkillsSkills gap
18% of survey respondents believe their cybersecurity budgets will decrease in the next 12 months, compared to 13% last year.
9/29/2025•
Budget
Only 41% of respondents believe their cybersecurity budgets will increase in the next 12 months, compared to 47% last year.
9/29/2025•
Budget
Prior hands-on cybersecurity experience is considered very important by 60% of respondents, marking a decline from 73% last year.
9/29/2025•
HiringSkills
Professional development training is the most common employer benefit at 60%, three percentage points higher than last year.
9/29/2025•
Hiring
Employer-paid employee certification fees dropped to the second most common benefit, offered by only 54% of respondents, a decrease from 65% in 2024
9/29/2025•
Hiring
Half of respondent enterprises have challenges retaining qualified cybersecurity professionals, which is the lowest percentage reported since 2020.
9/29/2025•
Retention
Soft skills are the largest reported skill gap in cybersecurity, increasing from 51% in 2024 to 59% in 2025.
9/29/2025•
HiringSkillsSkills gap
The percentage of respondent enterprises that provided training to allow nonsecurity staff to move into security roles dropped considerably, from 41% last year to just 29% this year.
9/29/2025•
TrainingSkills
63 percent believe quantum computing will speed up computational tasks or data analysis significantly.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
A third of global cyber and IT professionals (30 percent) do not have a good understanding of the capabilities of quantum computing.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
More than half (55 percent) of enterprises have not taken steps to prepare for quantum computing.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
Forty-four percent admit they have never heard of the new NIST standards
4/28/2025•
NIST
Sixty-three percent say quantum will increase or shift cybersecurity risks.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
56 percent cite "harvest now, decrypt later" as a concern for quantum computing.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
56 percent cite "harvest now, decrypt later" as a concern for quantum computing.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
41 percent say they do not plan to address quantum computing at this time.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
Nearly half (48 percent) are very or somewhat optimistic about quantum computing’s impact in their sector/industry.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
57 percent say quantum computing will create new business risks.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
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