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87% of cybersecurity professionals expect AI to enhance their roles, offering efficiency and relief amid cyber skill shortages, but they require upskilling to unlock full potential
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today released its 2025 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report, shedding light on the new and persistent challenges organizations face due to the cybersecurity skills gap. The global survey’s key findings include:
“This year’s survey further underscores the urgent need to invest in cybersecurity talent,” said Carl Windsor, CISO at Fortinet. “Without closing the skills gap, organizations will continue to face rising breach rates and escalating costs. The findings highlight an inflection point for both public and private sectors: Without bold action to build and retain cybersecurity expertise, the risks and costs will only continue to grow for our society.”
Report Links Cyber Skills Gap to Escalating Security and Financial Risks
As cyberthreats continue to escalate, organizations face the reality that security attacks are not just a possibility but a certainty. At the same time, an estimated global shortfall of more than 4.7 million skilled professionals leads to critical security roles being unfilled at a time when they are needed most. Key findings about the impact of the skills gap on organizations globally include:
AI Could Ease Strain on Security Teams, but Lack of Expertise Is a Growing Risk
While AI offers critical relief amid ongoing cyber skills shortages, organizations may not yet be fully prepared to harness its potential securely. This year’s survey found:
As Board-Level Focus on Cybersecurity Grows, Understanding of AI Impact Lags
When it comes to the board of directors’ understanding of cybersecurity’s role at their organization, the report revealed the following:
Upskilling Remains a Focus in Addressing the Skill Gap
As the cyber skills shortage persists, other key findings from the report include:
Closing the Skills Gap Is Critical to Business Resilience
The 2025 Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report makes clear that cybersecurity has become a board-level priority, driven by the rise of AI and the escalating risks to business operations. Closing the global skills gap remains essential. Organizations must rethink hiring practices, tap into underutilized talent pools, and invest in training and upskilling to build and retain the expertise they need. This requires a coordinated approach grounded in three key pillars: raising awareness and education, expanding access to targeted training and certification, and embracing advanced security technologies.
To help organizations address the challenges they face as a result of the cyber skills gap, the award-winning Fortinet Training Institute, one of the industry's broadest training and certification programs, is dedicated to making cybersecurity certification and new career opportunities available to all populations, including a Security Awareness Training service for organizations to develop a cyber-aware workforce. The Security Awareness and Training service offers AI-focused modules to enhance understanding of AI and the role it plays in cybersecurity, including an introduction to GenAI and curriculum around AI-powered threats, covering the various methods that cybercriminals use when harnessing AI to create and enhance cyberattacks.
Additionally, as part of Fortinet’s commitment to addressing this growing challenge, Fortinet is on track to train 1 million people in cybersecurity around the world by the end of 2026, since setting that pledge in 2021.
About the Fortinet Skills Gap Survey
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About Fortinet
Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) is a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Our mission is to secure people, devices, and data everywhere, and today we deliver cybersecurity everywhere our customers need it with the largest integrated portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products. Well over half a million customers trust Fortinet's solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry. The Fortinet Training Institute, one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry, is dedicated to making cybersecurity training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Collaboration with esteemed organizations from both the public and private sectors, including Computer Emergency Response Teams (“CERTS”), government entities, and academia, is a fundamental aspect of Fortinet’s commitment to enhance cyber resilience globally. FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet’s elite threat intelligence and research organization, develops and utilizes leading-edge machine learning and AI technologies to provide customers with timely and consistently top-rated protection and actionable threat intelligence. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, and FortiGuard Labs.
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