{"id":222487,"date":"2026-03-11T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/cybersecurity-workforce-study-highlights-barriers-to-adopting-skills-based-talent-strategies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:00:12","slug":"cybersecurity-workforce-study-highlights-barriers-to-adopting-skills-based-talent-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/cybersecurity-workforce-study-highlights-barriers-to-adopting-skills-based-talent-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Workforce Study Highlights Barriers to Adopting Skills-Based Talent Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityinfowatch.com\/cybersecurity\/news\/55363305\/cybersecurity-workforce-study-highlights-barriers-to-adopting-skills-based-talent-strategies\">Cybersecurity Workforce Study Highlights Barriers to Adopting Skills-Based Talent Strategies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityinfowatch.com\/cybersecurity\/news\/55363305\/cybersecurity-workforce-study-highlights-barriers-to-adopting-skills-based-talent-strategies\">https:\/\/www.securityinfowatch.com\/cybersecurity\/news\/55363305\/cybersecurity-workforce-study-highlights-barriers-to-adopting-skills-based-talent-strategies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-11 15:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.securityinfowatch.com\">www.securityinfowatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A new industry study is drawing attention to the growing role of mentorship, structured development programs and skills-based promotion practices in strengthening the cybersecurity workforce; however, adoption across organizations remains uneven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The report, \u201cThe ROI of Resilience: How Cybersecurity Talent Management Best Practices Improve the Bottom Line,\u201d released by Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) and research firm FourOne Insights, finds that skills-based workforce practices can generate more than $125,000 in savings per cybersecurity employee while improving hiring speed and employee retention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Despite those financial and operational benefits, many organizations continue to rely on traditional talent management models that make it difficult to implement structured mentorship and development programs, Lynn Dohm, executive director of WiCyS, tells SecurityInfoWatch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cOne of the biggest barriers is that many organizations still rely on legacy talent systems that prioritize titles, tenure, or informal sponsorship instead of clearly defined skills and transparent advancement pathways,\u201d Dohm said. \u201cEven when leaders recognize the value of mentorship and structured development programs, implementing them requires a shift in mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityinfowatch.com\/cybersecurity\/news\/55363305\/cybersecurity-workforce-study-highlights-barriers-to-adopting-skills-based-talent-strategies\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity Workforce Study Highlights Barriers to Adopting Skills-Based Talent Strategies https:\/\/www.securityinfowatch.com\/cybersecurity\/news\/55363305\/cybersecurity-workforce-study-highlights-barriers-to-adopting-skills-based-talent-strategies Publish Date: 2026-03-11 15:05:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.securityinfowatch.com\/files\/base\/cygnus\/siw\/image\/2026\/03\/69b1b97ca8d857a5ace8ddb2-gettyimages935964300.png?auto=format,compress&fit=fill&fill=blur&w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222489,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222487\/revisions\/222489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}