Security leaders report AI and identity threats straining cybersecurity teams
Original title: 67% of security leaders say their teams struggle to meet business needs
67% of security leaders say their teams struggle to meet business needs due to AI risks and identity-based attacks.
AI-related risks affect 68% of security leaders while 67% cite advanced identity and phishing threats including business email compromise, OAuth abuse, and MFA bypass. Two-thirds report pressure to scale security teams and half expect professionals to support digital operations without additional resources. More than half report security head count reductions linked to AI with roles shifting toward threat investigation and automation governance. Skills gaps are estimated to cost UK cybersecurity professionals at least £380,000 each year on average. Europe is short of more than 300,000 cybersecurity professionals with AI skills job postings doubling in G7 countries.
- 68% link AI risks to skills gaps
- 67% cite identity and phishing threats
- 56% report security head count reductions linked to AI
- Cloud security and agentic AI security top skill needs
- Cybersecurity job postings requiring AI skills doubled in G7
- Vendors
- BarracudaFoundryPluralsight
- Organizations
- AI Workforce Consortium
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AI, identity-based attacks, and expanding digital operations are putting pressure on already overstretched cybersecurity teams. Security vendor Barracuda’s Cybersecurity Skills Gap report also found that security teams are struggling to keep pace with expanding responsibilities. The vast majority of the 2,000 IT and security decision-makers surveyed report cybersecurity skills gaps.
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