The Global Cyber Skills Benchmark 2025: CTEM edition

Practical insights to take you from benchmarking to Continuous Threat Exposure Management

Cyber threats are continuous, yet many organizations remain trapped in reactive, detection-first models. The 2025 Global Cyber Skills Benchmark tested 795+ teams and 4,500 professionals across 40 real-world challenges—and revealed that skills are the critical success factor in CTEM maturity.

The CTEM Edition of the report uncovers how gaps in cloud, secure coding, AI/ML, and OT/ICS directly drive higher dwell times, costs, and risk. 

Whether you’re overseeing a blue team, leading a threat management function, or shaping enterprise cyber strategy, this report offers practical, data-backed insights to strengthen your team’s readiness and resilience.

What you’ll learn about:

• The skills behind effective CTEM: How real-world capability gaps impact every phase of exposure management — from discovery to validation and mobilization.
• Emerging risks reshaping the landscape: Blockchain, AI, and quantum security are no longer theoretical. See where global teams stand today.
• The real cost of skill gaps: How missing competencies in detection, reversing, or secure coding directly increase dwell time and breach costs.
  
• Benchmarking that drives action: How organizations are using skill data to align security teams with business resilience goals.
  
• Practical next steps: Actions security leaders can take to build continuous readiness and reduce exposure — through people, process, and practice.