Hack the Box

AI-augmented teams achieve a 3.2x higher cybersecurity challenge solve-rate ratio than human-only teams across all active participants.

AI-augmented teams improve cybersecurity challenge solve rate by 70% within the same time window.

AI advantage peaks at 3.89x for mid-level operators on medium-difficulty cybersecurity tasks.

19% of CISOs are concerned about their organisation's ability to handle a cyber crisis because of a lack of realistic, stress-tested crisis simulations.

77% of CISOs stated they would allocate greater budgets for cyber crisis simulations if the exercises were more realistic and actionable.

73% of CISOs identified practical crisis simulations and incident response exercises involving both technical and non-technical teams as their top business priority for 2025.

AI-augmented teams achieve a 27% cybersecurity challenge solve rate within the time window versus 16% for top human-only teams.

20% of CISOs are concerned about their organisation's ability to handle a cyber crisis because of the lack of incident response planning.

31% of CISOs are concerned about their organisation's ability to handle a cyber crisis because of the rising volume of cyber incidents.

16% of 2025 security budgets are being reallocated to simulation exercises.

74% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) reported that their organisations are increasing annual budgets for crisis simulation exercises in 2025.