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A closer look at the findings from the most recent ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, from the perspective of respondents within the cybersecurity community in India. The 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study offers an important snapshot of how India's cybersecurity profession is evolving.

In April 2023, ISC2 became the first organisation to make a pledge under the European Commission's Cybersecurity Skills Academy. The commitment was 20,000 free places in the Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) programme. It was later extended by a further 30,000, bringing the total to 50,000 places for EU residents. Upon the closure of the pledge, the target enrollment was exceeded by 26%. What the Pledge Delivered 62,905 EU residents registered for the CC programme, across all 27 Member States.

Many security leaders have seen this before: a technology begins delivering visible value and teams’ attention shifts to adoption, efficiency and scale. After all, once review processes are completed and systems begin producing results, most organizations assume the difficult work has already been done. In time, trust quietly becomes less of an active question and more of an assumption.

ISC2 to establish technical standards for emerging cybersecurity challenges through consensus-based processes accredited by the American National Standards Institute Alexandria, VA., Sept. 22, 2026 – ISC2 – the world’s leading nonprofit member organization for cybersecurity professionals – today announced it has become the first cybersecurity certification organization to be granted Accredited Standards Developer (ASD) status by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

For 15 years, cybersecurity professionals have attended ISC2 Security Congress to learn from industry experts, explore emerging trends and gain practical insights they can take back to their organizations. But as the cybersecurity landscape grows more complex, and more unpredictable, learning needs are evolving.

Explore the cybersecurity certifications that equip senior managers to lead board-level risk conversations, influence security funding, and drive governance outcomes. More than just a technical validation, senior-level cybersecurity certifications can help security leaders demonstrate that they understand how cybersecurity connects to wider business priorities.

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Army veteran Chen Mike Aloni, CISSP, believes that the most dangerous failures he’s lived through weren’t technical but taxonomic: someone applied the wrong label, everyone downstream inherited it and the response marched confidently in the wrong direction. The label is the thing we verify least and trust most – and that can be costly. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article belong solely to the author and do not necessarily reflect those of ISC2.

Cybersecurity professionals are no strangers to navigating regulatory change. In ISC2’s 2025 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, nearly a third (32%) of respondents identified keeping up with changing regulatory requirements as the biggest challenge they faced in the previous year. Looking ahead, the same proportion (32%) expect it to be the top challenge they will face over the next two years.

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