
By Karen Crowley
The cybersecurity profession can be very rewarding, but at the same time quite taxing.
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In fact, stress factors have risen to where some 45 percent of the security professionals polled in Deep Instinct’s third annual Voice of SecOps report said they’ve considered leaving the industry altogether.
Ransomware is at an all-time high; attackers are as elusive as ever. Thus the job of detecting an active adversary and stopping them before they can do material damage has become extremely difficult.
Some 91 percent of respondents reported feeling stress in their security roles, of which 46 percent stated that the level of stress had increased in the past 12 months.
Productivity disruptor
A significant proportion of security pros concede that stress is negatively impacting their ability to do their daily tasks at work; this is the result of a number of variables including:
•A gap between the number of qualified candidates to fill positions and experienced staff members; skilled security personnel are often poached for higher wages and larger responsibilities.