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AdaptIQ | Workforce intelligence

Cyber workforce intelligence

Make workforce decisions with clearer evidence. AdaptIQ is designed to connect cyber skills, capability gaps, and workforce demand so security and HR leaders can set priorities with confidence. General availability is coming soon. Request early access to explore your needs.

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Data

Workforce intelligence concept

Roles and skills in a shared context

Evidence to inform workforce decisions

Illustrative view • no live data

  • Capability signals
  • Workforce priorities

From information to decisions

  • Roles
  • Skills
  • Gaps
Needs

Decision support

Understand. Prioritize. Act.

AdaptIQ cyber workforce intelligence view of skills and gaps.

Visibility for workforce decisions

What is cyber workforce intelligence?

Cyber workforce intelligence connects information about roles, skills, capability gaps, and workforce demand to the decisions leaders need to make. AdaptIQ, QuickStart’s shared workforce intelligence platform, is designed to provide that context so security and HR teams can set priorities for planning, hiring, and development.

Explore Workforce Planning

  • Understand capability

    Look beyond job titles and training activity. Relate skills evidence to the responsibilities your workforce needs to cover.

  • Prioritize the need

    Consider capability gaps and workforce demand in context. Decide which questions require closer investigation before investing.

  • Inform the next action

    Use the intelligence to frame a planning, hiring, or development decision. Keep operational priorities and evidence quality in view.

Capability, demand, and context

What the intelligence helps you see

Cybersecurity workforce analytics connects skills evidence with the workforce questions leaders need to answer. AdaptIQ’s intelligence approach centers on capability, gaps, and demand. Use that context to identify priorities and the evidence each decision needs.

Explore Skills Gap Analysis

  • Skills and capability gaps

    Relate available skills evidence to role expectations. Identify where the information suggests a need for closer review.

  • Supply and demand

    Consider available workforce capability alongside the work you need to cover. Frame the balance of internal development and hiring.

  • Benchmarking in context

    Use relevant comparisons when sources and methods support the decision. Consider dates, scope, and the population behind each benchmark.

Ontology-driven intelligence

How AdaptIQ connects the picture

A skills ontology relates skills, roles, and work. AdaptIQ is designed around that shared structure, helping leaders interpret workforce information consistently. Connect the evidence to a defined need, then choose the action it supports.

  • Structure the information

    Connect skills and roles through a common language for cyber capability.

    • Roles and the work they need to cover
    • Skills connected to those responsibilities
    • Evidence interpreted in a shared context

  • Interpret the insight

    Relate the workforce picture to the question your organization needs to answer.

    • Capability available for the work
    • Gaps or demand that need investigation
    • Relevant comparisons and evidence quality

  • Support the decision

    Give leaders a clearer basis for discussing where to plan, hire, or develop.

    • Operational priorities and timing
    • A defined workforce action and owner
    Explore the Skills Ontology

From intelligence to action

Choose the next workforce step

Intelligence gives the workforce decision context. Use the specialist pages to plan roles and capacity, investigate capability gaps, understand the skills model, or develop your team. Each route answers a different question.

  • Investigate skills gaps

    Explore the difference between current capability and what the work requires before choosing the response.

    Explore gap analysis

  • Understand the ontology

    Explore the relationships between cyber skills, roles, and work that give intelligence a shared structure.

    Explore the skills model

  • Develop the team

    Use SkillsIQ when the next step is cybersecurity upskilling, with a readiness baseline and focused learning.

    Explore cyber upskilling

AdaptIQ supports intelligence and planning. SkillsIQ supports the development response.

Who workforce intelligence is for

For leaders accountable for capability

Security and HR need a shared view of workforce priorities. CISOs define the work and its stakes. Workforce leaders consider capability and capacity. Strategic HR connects talent decisions with organizational needs. AdaptIQ’s intelligence proposition brings those questions into one context.

Explore For Organizations

  • CISOs and security teams

    Clarify which skills support security responsibilities. Use workforce evidence to frame capability priorities and discuss the operational implications.

  • Workforce leaders

    Connect current capability with future needs. Consider the balance of development, hiring, and internal mobility around the work.

  • Strategic HR teams

    Bring a skills perspective to headcount and talent planning. Align workforce investment with the priorities security leaders need to address.

Coming soon

Explore AdaptIQ ahead of launch

Cyber Workforce Intelligence introduces AdaptIQ’s planning proposition ahead of its planned launch. Request early access to discuss your needs and receive relevant access and availability information.

  • Share your workforce question

    Tell us which capability, planning, or talent decision your organization needs to support.

  • Discuss the planned scope

    Explore how the intelligence approach fits your use case as product details and access options are confirmed.

  • Receive launch information

    Register your interest for relevant updates. Early-access requests do not guarantee immediate platform access.

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Related intelligence and development

Explore the workforce intelligence cluster

Start with the planning hub, then follow the question you need to answer. Explore the specialist capabilities, SkillsIQ development, audience guidance, and research supporting the broader workforce conversation.

Plan Your Cyber Workforce

Explore the AdaptIQ planning cluster and choose the route that matches your organization’s workforce decision.

Explore the planning hub

  • Cyber and IT planning

    Explore the planning approach for roles, capability, capacity, and workforce priorities.

  • Skills gap analysis

    Investigate capability gaps against the skills and responsibilities your workforce needs.

  • Cyber skills ontology

    Understand the skills-and-roles structure that gives workforce information a common context.

  • Workforce upskilling

    Explore SkillsIQ development when the next action is strengthening your existing team.

  • CISOs and security teams

    Explore workforce guidance around the responsibilities and priorities of security leaders.

  • Cybersecurity research

    Explore research and workforce context to inform the questions behind your decisions.

Evidence for decisions

Make the workforce question clear

Cybersecurity workforce planning data is useful when it serves a defined decision. Ask what work needs coverage, what the evidence supports, and which response fits. Keep assumptions visible so security and HR can discuss priorities with clarity.

Question

Define the workforce need

Name the role, responsibility, or future capability you need to cover. Give the intelligence a clear purpose.

Evidence

Understand the context

Consider skills evidence, supply and demand, and relevant benchmarks. Review the sources, dates, and limits that affect interpretation.

Action

Choose the next response

Use the evidence to frame planning, hiring, or development priorities. Assign ownership and revisit the decision as needs change.

Cyber workforce intelligence connects information about roles, skills, capability gaps, and workforce demand to the decisions leaders need to make. It helps security and HR teams ask what capability they have, what the work requires, and where to focus next. AdaptIQ is QuickStart’s shared workforce intelligence platform, designed to support that decision context. The aim is clearer priorities for planning, hiring, and development, grounded in relevant evidence.
Useful security workforce data relates skills and roles to organizational needs. Depending on the evidence, the picture may include capability gaps, internal skill supply, external talent demand, and relevant benchmarks. Each source needs a clear date, scope, and method. AdaptIQ is being developed around this intelligence context. Use the early-access form to discuss your requirements, planned scope, and the information available for your use case.
Cybersecurity workforce analytics examines patterns in skills, roles, and workforce needs. Cyber talent analytics can help leaders compare available capability with demand, identify areas to investigate, and frame hiring or development priorities. Workforce analytics reveals what the underlying evidence supports, so source quality and context matter. A benchmark is useful only when its population and method fit the decision. It should inform professional judgment alongside the organization’s operational priorities.
A skills ontology describes relationships between skills, roles, and work. That structure provides a shared language for interpreting workforce information, so teams can discuss capability needs consistently. AdaptIQ’s intelligence approach is built around this role-and-skills context. An ontology helps organize evidence; the quality, scope, and relevance of the evidence still matter. Explore Cyber Skills Ontology for the relationship model and how it supports a more coherent view of cyber capability.
AdaptIQ’s planned general availability date is November 19, 2026. This page introduces the workforce intelligence proposition ahead of that planned launch. Select Request Early Access to register your organization’s interest and describe the workforce decision you want to support. The team can share relevant launch information and discuss access options as they are confirmed. An early-access request does not guarantee immediate access. Explore AdaptIQ takes you to the platform entry for the latest access information.
AdaptIQ supports the intelligence and planning context: understanding capability needs and informing workforce priorities. SkillsIQ supports the development response through readiness, role-aligned learning paths, and progress reviews. For example, a leader may use workforce intelligence to identify a capability need, investigate it through skills gap analysis, then consider a cybersecurity upskilling program. Use this page for the intelligence overview, Cyber and IT Workforce Planning for the planning approach, and Cyber Workforce Upskilling for the development offer. Each route serves a different decision.
Cyber workforce intelligence is for CISOs, security and workforce leaders, and strategic HR teams making capability and headcount decisions. To plan a cyber workforce with data, define the work and roles you need to cover, review relevant skills evidence, and compare available capability with future demand. Consider evidence quality, timing, and operational priorities before choosing a response. Cyber Workforce Intelligence provides the overview; Cyber and IT Workforce Planning explains the planning approach. Organizations can request early access to discuss their decision needs ahead of AdaptIQ’s planned launch.

Frequently asked questions

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FAQs

Answers about cyber workforce intelligence, security workforce data, analytics, and the skills ontology.

Your next workforce intelligence decision

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