Cyber readiness in Professional Services:
Key insights from  Business CTF 2024

Professional Services firms are trusted to protect client infrastructures—but are they truly prepared to handle the evolving cybersecurity landscape? Critical skill gaps in forensics and ICS security could put your clients, and your reputation, at risk.

Hack The Box’s latest Business CTF, The Vault of Hope, brought together 4,944 security professionals from 943 companies, including leading Professional Services firms and MSSPs. Participants faced real-world challenges across 12 cybersecurity domains, revealing key strengths and weaknesses in the sector.

This exclusive report delves into the results, exposing vulnerabilities Professional Services teams face and offering actionable steps to build security capabilities and protect client trust.

What you’ll learn about:

• Performance gaps revealed: Professional Services teams face critical challenges compared to industry benchmarks—how wide is the gap, and what does it mean for readiness?
• Strengths in Professional Services: Explore how teams demonstrated relative strengths in offensive challenges like Fullpwn.
• Skill alignment gap: Over 50% of MSSPs indicate their training programs are not fully aligned with modern cybersecurity threats and technologies.
• Evolving training priorities: Cybersecurity teams are rethinking their focus for 2025. Discover which skills are rising to the top of their development plans.
• Actionable strategies: Access practical steps to enhance security training, improve readiness, and deliver world-class cybersecurity services.