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Stop Hiring Like It’s 2025: AI-Augmented Cybersecurity Performance Data Every CISO Needs

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Date Published
17 Apr 2026
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17 Apr 2026, 10:00 am

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A new benchmark shows AI-augmented cybersecurity teams significantly outperform human-only teams, reshaping workforce strategy, skills and response expectations.

Summary

This report evaluates performance benchmarks between AI-augmented and human-only cybersecurity teams, revealing that AI integration significantly increases solve rates. While it highlights productivity gains, the data also identifies that entry-level cybersecurity roles face the highest automation risk, suggesting a rapid shift in workforce requirements. These advancements in frontier AI capabilities for offensive and defensive cyber operations have direct implications for global security stability and the governance of dual-use AI technologies.

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What happens when cybersecurity teams use AI against those that don’t? This benchmark puts AI-augmented teams head-to-head with human-only teams in a live cybersecurity competition. The gap is already significant and it has immediate implications for hiring, skills and team structure. In this report, you’ll learn:• How AI-augmented teams achieved significantly higher solve rates• Where AI delivers the biggest productivity gains across skill levels• Why entry-level cybersecurity roles face the highest automation risk• Where human expertise still outperforms AI on complex challenges• How to restructure teams for an AI-augmented security model It also outlines practical implications for workforce planning, skills development and security operations. Register now to access the full report and see what AI-augmented cybersecurity performance looks like in practice. This content has been created and paid for by Hack The Box