$10.5T
Annual cybercrime cost
Projected global cost of cybercrime in 2025.
IBM, VikingCloud, Deepstrike, FBI IC3, WEF
2025 Threat Briefing
The threats your future role will face.
Cybersecurity certifications matter because the threats are real, expensive, and accelerating. These are the numbers we tell ourselves to remember why this work is worth doing.
44%
Breaches via ransomware
Up from 32% in 2024, ransomware now drives nearly half of all breaches.
Verizon DBIR 2025
4.8M
Unfilled cyber jobs globally
The talent gap grew 19% year-over-year.
ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study 2025
$4.44M
Average breach cost
Mean cost per data breach across all industries.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
80%
AI-generated phishing attacks
60% of users fall for GenAI-crafted phishing, up sharply from 2023.
Hoxhunt / SoSafe 2025 Phishing Reports
2×
Supply-chain attacks doubled
Now 15% of all breaches originate via a third party.
Verizon DBIR 2025
$10.22M
U.S. average breach cost
More than double the global average, and rising for the 14th year.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
$7.42M
Healthcare breach cost
Healthcare leads breach cost for the 14th consecutive year.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
The threat landscape is your job description.
Every cert in our catalog maps directly to the categories above. CISSP for defenders-in-depth. Security+ for the foundations. CEH for the offensive perspective. CCSP for cloud. CISA/CISM for governance. Each unlocks a real piece of the response.