TL;DR
When teams evaluate cybersecurity training, it’s easy to focus on the course library. Content matters, but content alone doesn’t run a program.
What makes Cybrary valuable for B2B teams is everything around the content: the tools that help you define what “ready” means for each role, identify where gaps actually exist, assign learning with intention, and show progress in a way leadership can understand.
Here are five Cybrary features that are often underappreciated in early evaluations, but become essential once you’re accountable for outcomes.
1) Skill assessments that baseline your team (so you stop guessing)
Many training programs start with assignments: pick a few courses, assign them to everyone, and hope the right people learn the right things.
Cybrary’s skill assessments flip that approach. They help you establish a baseline, by role and by domain, so your training plan is based on evidence rather than assumptions.
Why that matters for your organization:
- You can identify the highest-risk gaps across a team (not just individuals).
- You can focus learning on the domains that matter most for your environment.
- You can re-check progress over time and show whether capability is improving.
A baseline is also a defensible starting point. It moves the conversation from a vague need for “more training” to a clear picture of where the team is weakest, what you’re going to do about it, and how you’ll measure progress over time.
2) Career Paths that make role readiness repeatable (not improvised)
Security teams don’t need random playlists. They need repeatable development plans that map to real roles.
Cybrary’s Career Paths are designed for that: structured learning mapped to job functions and aligned with industry frameworks such as NICE and DoD 8140. That alignment makes it easier to standardize internally because “ready” is defined in language security leaders recognize and HR and leadership can also work with.
This becomes especially valuable when you’re managing:
- onboarding for new analysts
- internal mobility (IT → security)
- or specialization (IR, cloud security, pentesting, GRC)
A structured path reduces ambiguity for learners and reduces reinvention for managers. It also creates consistency across teams - critical when different leaders would otherwise build completely different training experiences for the same role.
3) Goals that connect learning to outcomes (not just activity)
Completion rates are easy to track. They’re also easy to dismiss.
Cybrary’s Goals functionality helps you define outcomes and track progress against them, so training can be managed like an operational initiative.
It shifts the focus away from simply tracking content consumption and toward running structured programs like:
- baseline a specific role within 30 days
- complete a defined path within a quarter
- improve priority domains (e.g., network defense, cloud security, threat detection)
- or build learning momentum through targeted weekly learning time
Goals also make it easier to manage accountability. Learners know what they’re working toward, and leaders can see where progress is strong versus where support is needed.
4) Dashboards that show progress trends you can report
If you’ve ever been asked “Is this working?” you know why dashboards matter.
Cybrary’s dashboards help move reporting from a list of completions to a story about capability:
- What’s improving over the last 30/60/90 days?
- Which teams are progressing fastest?
- Where are learners stalling and what should change?
- What domains are trending up or staying flat?
This is where training becomes easier to defend. Trend lines and domain-level movement make it possible to show progress without over-claiming. They also help you make smarter decisions: shift priorities, adjust assignments, or invest more deeply in specific job functions.
For B2B buyers, this is often the turning point between simply purchasing training content and building a measurable, outcomes-driven program.
5) Threat-focused learning plus Security Awareness Training that stays current (including AI scams)
A training program loses credibility when it feels outdated - especially in areas like phishing and social engineering, where attacker tactics evolve fast.
Cybrary’s approach combines threat-focused technical learning with Security Awareness Training designed for the broader employee population. Through its partnership with CanIPhish, teams can run realistic phishing simulations and training that reflect what employees are actually seeing today - impersonation attempts, supplier fraud, and AI-assisted deception included.
This matters because it supports two different but related needs:
- For technical teams: staying sharp on attacker workflows, vulnerabilities, and current tactics.
- For the broader business: building better instincts where attackers consistently succeed - finance, HR, customer support, and leadership.
When training and simulations mirror real-world scenarios, adoption gets easier. People engage more when they recognize the patterns, understand the stakes, and can connect the training to what’s landing in their inbox right now.
How teams put these together into a program that scales
These features are most effective when they’re used as a system:
- Baseline current capability with assessments
- Assign Career Paths by role to standardize readiness
- Set Goals that define outcomes and timelines
- Use dashboards to track trends and adjust
- Keep learning aligned to active threats and emerging scam patterns
This approach creates a program that is easier to run, easier to measure, and easier to justify.
A better evaluation question for B2B buyers
Instead of asking, “How big is the course library?” ask:
“Will this help us define role readiness, prioritize training based on real gaps, and show measurable improvement over time?”
That’s the difference between training that gets completed and training that changes outcomes.
If you’re ready to build a measurable program for your security team, sign-up for Cybrary for Teams and see how it can support assessments, role-based paths, hands-on learning, Security Awareness Training, and reporting in one place.
