{"id":6136,"date":"2025-11-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:24:12","slug":"cyber-workforce-benchmark-report-immersives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/2025\/11\/21\/cyber-workforce-benchmark-report-immersives\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Workforce Benchmark report 2025 &#8211; Immersive&#8217;s new report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Immersive has just published its latest report \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/info.immersivelabs.com\/report-2025-cyber-workforce-benchmark-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2025 Cyber Workforce Benchmark Report<\/a>. Using data from four complementary sources, the report reveals a troubling disconnect between asserted cyber readiness and actual cyber readiness. There is data and recommendations in this report that would benefit your organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osterman Research surveyed 500 cybersecurity leaders and practitioners in the United States and the United Kingdom for this report, with a focus on how organizations perceive and measure readiness. The survey data we collected and analyzed for Immersive was combined with proprietary performance and benchmarking data from Immersive\u2019s platform and a crisis simulation they ran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The cybersecurity industry has become expert at measuring readiness by activity not by outcome.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nearly every organization believes it is prepared for the next major incident &#8211; but underlying performance data doesn&#8217;t support such a conclusion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leaders are relying on false metrics &#8211; ones that prove nothing about performance under pressure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The are four missteps holding readiness back, including practicing the past, fixating on fundamentals, and excluding the business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organizations are failing for a lack of practiced coordination &#8211; not a lack of knowledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If cyber readiness and resilience in the face of growing cyber attacks is important to your organization, please get a copy from the Immersive web site, grab a cup of coffee or tea, and read to learn \/ adjust \/ improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next action: get your copy of the report \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/info.immersivelabs.com\/report-2025-cyber-workforce-benchmark-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2025 Cyber Workforce Benchmark Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While 71% of organizations feel their readiness programs are mature, our new report reveals a troubling disconnect: key performance metrics have flatlined year-over-year. This is the \u201cReadiness Rut,\u201d a dangerous gap between perceived readiness and actual capability. New research from Immersive, with survey data gathered and analyzed by Osterman Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384585,"featured_media":6103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[712027168,712027492],"tags":[712027522],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-cybersecurity-training","tag-research-reports-we-worked-on"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/immersive2025.jpg?fit=1100%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcHAk4-1AY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6140,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/6140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}