The Global Cyber Skills Benchmark 2025:
Finance deep dive

The pressure is growing—and the gaps are showing
This year’s Global Cyber Skills Benchmark brought together over 4,500 professionals and 795 corporate teams to test their capabilities across real-world attack simulations.
Finance teams demonstrated strong detection skills—but struggled in areas adversaries exploit the most.

The Finance Deep Dive Report analyzes how the sector performed, with insights mapped to MITRE ATT&CK tactics, blockchain security, and emerging threat areas like AI and quantum risk.

Whether you're overseeing a security team or shaping strategy, this report gives you the insight needed to prioritize training, close skill gaps, and boost real-world resilience.

What you’ll learn about:

• Strengths in financial teams: Finance teams scored well in OSINT and forensics, highlighting strong detection and investigation capability.
• Critical skill gaps: Weak solve rates in persistence (21.1%) and blockchain security (10.1%) signal post-exploitation vulnerabilities and blind spots in decentralized tech.
• Industry benchmarking: Compare your sector’s performance across 12 MITRE ATT&CK tactics and hands-on challenge categories.
• What high performers did differently: Learn how leading teams are preparing for AI-augmented threats, secure development challenges, and quantum-era risks.
• Steps to improve readiness: Get practical recommendations and mapped resources to address gaps in exploit literacy, secure coding, and incident containment.