Diving overview:
- Security leaders are seeing training budgets increase as organizations prepare their workforces for the AI era. Cyber security certified company ISC2 stated in its report: Published on Wednesday.
- Almost half (47%) of ISC2 survey respondents said their company is considering AI most important skills For employees to learn.
- The report also delves into how organizations are adapting their training programs to the modern security environment and addressing the challenges they face.
Dive Insight:
As cybersecurity risks become increasingly complex, companies are investing in their employees to combat phishing, ransomware, and other threats. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of respondents said their organization increased its security training budget in the past year. One-fifth of organizations rely solely on internal staff to provide training materials, 43% rely primarily on internal staff but also use third-party vendors, and 27% split the work evenly between staff and third parties.
Larger organizations were more likely to report using third-party training companies, likely due to the costs associated with those services.
The most common approach to keeping security professionals up to date on the latest threats and strategies is monthly training sessions, with 36% of respondents saying they use this approach. 34% of respondents said they train their security teams quarterly, and 15% said they train weekly.
Companies use a variety of tools to measure their effectiveness. Cyber security training program teeth. The most popular were employee performance metrics and security incident reduction trends, with 52% of respondents saying they use each of these tools. A similar percentage of security leaders told ISC2 that they trust employee satisfaction surveys, audit results, and employee certification completion rates.
Security leaders believe time constraints are the biggest barrier to improving the effectiveness of training programs, with more than half (53%) of respondents calling time constraints a burden. Keeping training materials up to date and finding qualified trainers solved the top three training challenges.
Almost all respondents said they paid close attention to the latest technology trends and quickly incorporated them into their training programs. 40% said they updated their training materials before a trend became widespread, and 54% said they updated their training materials when a trend emerged. Only 5% said they were “slightly behind” the trend, and just 1% said they were “significantly behind” the trend.
