We've curated 7 cybersecurity statistics about Training to help you understand how workforce education, threat awareness, and best practices are evolving in 2025. These insights will empower organizations to strengthen their defenses against ever-changing cyber threats.
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52% of organizations identify the human element, including employee training and awareness, as their greatest weakness.
52% of healthcare executives stated that training and upskilling personnel is an effective tool to combat cyber challenges.
64% of organizations rely on six or more data security vendors.
32% of companies globally have formally trained or briefed the entire company on risks related to generative AI in 2025, up from 19% in 2024 and 17% in 2023.
50% of larger enterprises provide comprehensive AI risk training compared to 39% of small and medium-sized businesses.
4% of the security staff budget for Fortune 500 organizations with 50+ security FTEs is allocated to Awareness training.
33.98% of IT decision-makers at financial services firms reported that security awareness training is currently fully or partially managed by an MSP or MSSP.
24% of executives at financial services firms acknowledge that their teams not being trained on incident response processes is a significant weakness that could slow recovery.
Only 17% of executives at financial services firms indicated that security awareness training will be a priority in the coming year.
45% of firms believe existing IT workers need OT training.
38% of companies are focusing more on employee cyber education.
54% of companies are considering training current employees for skill improvement.
Only 16% of healthcare organizations have trained most of their staff (75-100%) who have access to PHI on AI usage in email.
Only 8.4% of organizations saw first-try deepfake simulation pass rates of 80% or above in deepfake-related cybersecurity training.
The first-try deepfake-simulation pass rate average for organizations was 44% in deepfake-related cybersecurity training.
11.6% of organizations have provided no deepfake-related cybersecurity training.
88% of organizations have provided deepfake-related cybersecurity training.
2% of employees in financial services reported no training in AI tools.
81% of employees say they’ve received some form of training on using AI in their job role.
19% of employees in retail reported no training in AI tools.