Recognizing burnout risks is an important way to be supportive and to let team members know that they are not alone.”
“Burnout is more common than most realize. “We face the exceptionally high risk of burnout due to the nature of our work in security,” adds Sounil Yu, CISO at JupiterOne. “Our industry is facing unprecedented levels of burnout,” comments Melissa Bischoping, director of endpoint security research at Tanium. Any member of the security team can succumb to burnout. It’s worth mentioning – it’s not just the CISO.
The question we ask here is whether better stress management could prevent burnout, recognize its early stages, halt its progression, and recover from its effect. The symptoms are exhaustion and mental distancing from the occupation – and the effect is reduced efficacy at work. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes burnout as an occupational syndrome: “Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” Burnout is a growing problem that damages people and threatens effective security.īurnout is likely to worsen in the coming months as the economy forces teams to do more with less at the same time as cybercrime and nation-state attacks are increasing.īut what is burnout? How does it affect you can you prevent it and can you recover from it? Any profession, especially stressful professions, suffer from burnout but here we are primarily discussing cybersecurity.
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