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High work-stress levels, limited promotion and development opportunities, and recruitment by other enterprises are the top reasons cybersecurity professionals leave their current roles.
9/29/2025•
Stress
Employer-paid employee certification fees dropped to the second most common benefit, offered by only 54% of respondents, a decrease from 65% in 2024
9/29/2025•
Hiring
The top three most important soft skills needed by security professionals are critical thinking (57%), communication (56%), and problem solving (47%).
9/29/2025•
HiringSkillsSkills gap
Professional development training is the most common employer benefit at 60%, three percentage points higher than last year.
9/29/2025•
Hiring
Prior hands-on cybersecurity experience is considered very important by 60% of respondents, marking a decline from 73% last year.
9/29/2025•
HiringSkills
61% of respondents indicate that adaptability is very important in determining a cybersecurity applicant's qualifications.
9/29/2025•
HiringSkills
The percentage of respondent enterprises that provided training to allow nonsecurity staff to move into security roles dropped considerably, from 41% last year to just 29% this year.
9/29/2025•
TrainingSkills
Half of respondent enterprises have challenges retaining qualified cybersecurity professionals, which is the lowest percentage reported since 2020.
9/29/2025•
Retention
Only 41% of respondents believe their cybersecurity budgets will increase in the next 12 months, compared to 47% last year.
9/29/2025•
Budget
57 percent say quantum computing will create new business risks.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
Only 5% say their organizations have a defined quantum computing strategy.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
95% of organizations lack a quantum computing roadmap.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
15 percent say qunatum computing is on their long-term roadmap but not a near-term priority.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
Only 7 percent of the poll respondents say they have a strong understanding of the new NIST standards.
4/28/2025•
NIST
24 percent don’t know how their organization views quantum computing within its current technology or innovation strategy
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
Just 5% say quantum computing is a high priority for the near future.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
56 percent cite "harvest now, decrypt later" as a concern for quantum computing.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
62% of technology and cybersecurity professionals are worried that quantum computing will break today’s internet encryption.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
More than half (55 percent) of enterprises have not taken steps to prepare for quantum computing.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
37 percent have not discussed quantum computing at all.
4/28/2025•
Quantum computing
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