Around 70 percent are under pressure from senior management to better justify their next annual cybersecurity budget.
Feelings of helplessness and professional despair are common, with half admitting that these feelings of professional despair/helplessness have a negative impact on their personal lives and/or mental health.
According to research by Green Raven of 200 senior cybersecurity professionals, at a UK organisation with at least 1000 employees, found 59 percent agree that it’s “a matter of when, not if” their organisation suffers loss due to a cybersecurity breach. Also, a almost three-quarters say they would consider a major breach as a personal failure.
Further, almost 70 percent are under pressure from senior management to better justify their next annual cybersecurity budget against the actual risks and threats faced by their organisation.
Morten Mjels, CEO of Green Raven Limited, said: “Practitioners believe the defences in which they are responsible for investing increasingly large amounts of money will ultimately fail to protect their organisation, and expect to feel or to be held responsible when the big breach comes.
“It’s the cybersecurity version of the old maxim that ‘all political careers end in failure’: many cybersecurity practitioners appear resigned to the idea that their career could hit the buffers in a similar fashion. Having that expectation dangling over your head daily can’t be healthy and it’s unsurprising that it emotionally impacts dedicated, hard-working practitioners.”
Written by
Dan Raywood
Senior Editor
SC Media UK
Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with more than 20 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 16 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Conference, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and ESET Security Days.
Outside work, Dan enjoys supporting Tottenham Hotspur, managing mischievous cats, and sampling craft beers.
