Key point: 66 percent of German companies have increased budgets for cybersecurity training and increasingly view it as a strategic rather than operational investment.
Two-thirds of German companies have raised their spending on security training in the last twelve months. This is shown by a study from ISC2 against the backdrop of a growing shortage of IT security specialists.
According to the ISC2 study, 66 percent of surveyed German companies have increased their budgets for cybersecurity training over the past 12 months. The increases demonstrate a changed perspective on personnel development: security training is no longer viewed as a cost factor, but as a strategic investment in competitiveness.
The background to this development is the ongoing shortage of IT security specialists. Companies recognize that internal qualification and upskilling of existing teams is often more cost-effective than recruiting new specialists in a tight labor market.
For CISOs, this opens up a strategic opportunity: the increased budget availability creates scope for more comprehensive training programs, certifications, and also specialized training in areas such as cloud security or AI security. At the same time, this investment framework should be used to document the demonstrability of training effects and their contribution to risk mitigation.
Source: www.security-insider.de · Published July 28, 2026
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