94% of organizations have a cybersecurity skills gap: what you can do about it this quarter

Most organizations are running security teams that are too small, too stretched, and missing the skills they now need. That is the headline from Barracuda's Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report, covered by Cybersecurity Insiders on October 29, 2026. Ninety-four percent of the 2,000 IT and security decision-makers surveyed said their organization has a cybersecurity skills gap. If you run security for a company of 100 to 2,000 people, that number probably matches your week. The useful move is to treat the report as a checklist of where other teams are thin, then check your own team against the same list. Below is that checklist, built only from the gaps Barracuda actually measured. For background on whether the shortage is real or a hiring-market story, our earlier piece on the cybersecurity skills shortage covers the wider debate. This report adds new detail on which specific skills are missing. Where are the gaps, exactly?

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