WHAT THE BOARD THINKS...
The high-pressure nature of the CISO’s job isn’t totally lost on the c-suite, with 74% believing their IT security team is moderately/tremendously stressed.
50% 40% 30% I WORRY ABOUT TAKING SICK DAYS 20% 10% 0%
MENTAL HEALTH
RELATIONSHIPS/ FAMILY OR CHILDREN
PHYSICAL HEALTH
ABILITY TO CARRY OUT THE JOB
I HAVE DELAYED HEALTH CHECKS/ DOCTORS APPOINTMENTS
I DIDN’T TAKE OFF ALL OF MY ANNUAL LEAVE I WAS ENTITLED TO
HAVE TAKEN LEAVE-OF-ABSENCE DUE TO WORK RELATED STRESS
will customarily undergo training to enable them to deal with the pressures of the job in the same way that somebody working in emergency services would be, say. Awareness of the problem in cyber security circles is being raised in industry fora. The topics of stress and mental health issues caused by cyber security pressures are increasingly being openly discussed at conferences and other industry gatherings. A conference track at Black Hat and DEFCON 2019 also touched on the topic of ‘post- traumatic stress disorder’ as it can aff ect cyber security practitioners. ‘Mental health in cyber security’ was a headline topic at events in the
last 12 months, including the high-profi le RSA Conference. At the 2019 event, Dr Ryan K. Louie, a psychiatrist for the Foundation Physicians Medical Group, delivered a keynote presentation entitled ‘Mental Health in Cybersecurity: Preventing Burnout, Building Resilience’. Elsewhere, Dr Louie has explained that organisations should now recognise their frontline cyber security professionals are routinely exposed to unusually demanding workplace situations. “What is unique about cyber security is that there are always emerging threats… coming from left fi eld – things that people don’t know about,” he said in a post-conference interview. “There is also an adversary [and] adversaries are intellectual, innovative, and creative, so there’s that constant need to always be prepared for something.” As this year’s pandemic has proved, cyber security professionals
must now deal with the disruptive impacts of viruses of many kinds. The CIISec expects that the Coronavirus threat will eventually recede and become a part of modern history; however, the institute warns, whenever that eventuality does come to pass, cyber threats will still be out there, and they will pose ever-thornier challenges to Europe’s ever-pressured front-line IT security professionals.
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DEUTSCHE VORSCROLLEN
35% 40%
21% 41%
YOUR LEVELS AFFECTED
TEAM LEVELS AFFECTED
DONE/NOT DONE DUE TO WORK COMMITS
39% of CISOs (surveyed by Nominet) who have missed a family milestone or activity have missed a family wedding due to work commitments.
I HAVE MISSED A FAMILY MILESTONE OR ACTIVITY
I HAVE MISSED OR BEEN LATE TO SOCIAL EVENTS
45% 44% 44%
48% 39%
40% 24%
35% 30%
31% 31%
SOURCE: NOMINET CISO STRESS REPORT (2020)
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