The Power of Elite Cyber Readiness: Unpacking the Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study

Certifications are expiring faster than ever, AI is shrinking attack windows to zero, and external hires are demanding salary premiums, so why are most leaders still treating talent development like a routine line-item expense?

In this session, Hack The Box Chief Marketing Officer Christine Bartlett and guest speaker, Forrester Principal Analyst Jess Burn examine the traditional hiring and upskilling playbook to reveal what actually happens when you give security teams a risk-free environment to fail, learn, and adapt.

Supported by hard metrics from Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ study of Hack The Box, this conversation lays out how Hack The Box customers are turning workforce readiness into a direct driver of operational resilience.

Key takeaways

Forrester's financial model: Understand how Forrester evaluated costs, flexibility, and risk to quantify workforce readiness as an operational security control that pays for itself

Operational impacts of hands-on environments: Learn why letting security professionals experiment in production-safe spaces cuts incident escalation in half, accelerates response times, and compresses new hire onboarding

The cost of practitioner turnover: Discover how investing in skill development helps retain critical institutional knowledge while saving on replacement costs and avoiding salary premiums on external hiring

Making the case for cyber workforce development: Walk away with practical data and benchmarks you can use to frame workforce development as a direct driver of operational resilience rather than a budget line item