- 59%
- Accuracy
- 8 of 14
- Analyst ranking
- 5
- Predictions scored
- 8
- Still to fall due
Right · 100%We predict the same number of openings in 2025
What happened. Cybersecurity Ventures' Dec 2025 almanac says unfilled jobs remain at 3.5 million (or less) in 2025. ISC2, using a different method, put the global workforce gap at 4.8 million in 2024 and stopped publishing a gap figure in 2025. The firm's own 2025 figure matches the forecast; ISC2's gap measure is not like for like, so the score rests on Cybersecurity Ventures' figures. Sources: cybersecurityventures.com, isc2.org.
Source: Cybersecurity Almanac 2023 (Cybercrime Magazine)
Caveat. No independent evidence available. Scored on Cybersecurity Ventures’s own figures.
Mostly wrong · 25%We expect brisk hiring in the cybersecurity space for the rest of this year, and through 2025.
What happened. Hiring held up in 2023, then stalled. ISC2 found the global security workforce grew just 0.1% in 2024, with 38% of respondents reporting hiring freezes and 25% layoffs. Its 2025 study found hiring freezes steady and layoffs at 24%. Right for 2023, but 2024 and 2025 brought flat headcount, hiring freezes and layoffs rather than brisk hiring. Sources: isc2.org, isc2.org.
Source: Cybersecurity a bright spot amid tech layoffs (FOX Business)
Wrong · 0%We predict that women will represent 30 percent of the global cybersecurity workforce by 2025
What happened. ISC2's 2024 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found women make up 22% of security teams on average, and ISC2 cites a Global Cybersecurity Forum report putting women at 24% of the workforce. No measure found shows women near 30%. Independent measures put women at 22-24% of the workforce, well short of 30% and below the 25% Morgan said they already held in 2022. Sources: isc2.org.
Source: Women Hold 25 Percent Of Cybersecurity Jobs Globally In 2022 (Cybercrime Magazine)
Half right · 50%cost the world $30 billion in 2025 alone
What happened. The article never defines cryptocrime. On a losses basis, Chainalysis counts over $3.4bn stolen in 2025 plus about $17bn lost to scams and fraud, roughly $20bn. On an illicit-volume basis, Chainalysis puts 2025 at a record $154bn+ (TRM Labs: $158bn), driven by sanctions evasion. On either measure the figure rose from the $17.5bn 2021 baseline, but the $30bn forecast is more than 25% away (about $20bn of losses, or $154bn of illicit volume). Sources: chainalysis.com, chainalysis.com, chainalysis.com, trmlabs.com.
Source: Cryptocrime To Cost The World $30 Billion Annually By 2025 (Cybercrime Magazine)
Right · 100%Cybersecurity Ventures predicts the cyberinsurance market will grow from approximately $8.5 billion in 2021 to $14.8 billion in 2025
What happened. Munich Re estimates the global cyber insurance market totalled nearly US$15bn in 2025, with premium growth slowing over the previous three years. The forecast of $14.8bn for 2025 is within about 1% of Munich Re's independent estimate of nearly $15bn. Sources: munichre.com, businessinsurance.com.
Source: Cyberinsurance Market To Reach $34 Billion By 2031 (Cybercrime Magazine)
Still to fall due8 predictions
- Dec 2026
Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that global spending on cybersecurity products and services will hit $522 billion annually (USD) in 2026, up from $260 billion in 2021.
Cybersecurity · made Dec 2025 · source - Dec 2031
will propel global spending on cybersecurity products and services to $1 trillion (USD) annually by 2031
Cybersecurity · made Nov 2025 · source - Dec 2031
Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that Y2Q will arrive on or around Jan. 1, 2031.
Cybersecurity · made Mar 2025 · source - Dec 2027
Cybersecurity Ventures predicts the global security awareness training market will exceed $10 billion annually by 2027
Cybersecurity · made Apr 2023 · source - Dec 2031
and that will reach 35 percent by 2031
Leadership & GTM · made Sep 2022 · source - Dec 2031
by 2031 that will climb to 50 percent
Cybersecurity · made Aug 2022 · source - Dec 2025
by 2025, 35 percent of Fortune 500 companies will have board members with cybersecurity experience
Cybersecurity · made Aug 2022 · source - Dec 2031
and exceed $34 billion by 2031, based on a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 15 percent over an 11-year period (2020 to 2031)
Cybersecurity · made Nov 2021 · source