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Everyone feels the pressure to perform, work hard and prove their worth. No matter how much you love your job, you can overwork, feel heightened stress that can cause a mental or physical collapse known as “burnout.”
Burnout is a phenomenon becoming well-acquainted with modern workers. This is especially true for hyper-active and high-pressure industries like cybersecurity, where mistakes are costly and every moment is hypercritical, these issues are tenfold.
In cybersecurity, hyper-vigilance is a state of mind every minute of the day. As the pace of global cybercrime continues to grow, pressure is exacerbated even more by the global cybersecurity skills shortage as demand is outpacing the supply of security professionals who can help combat the ever-increasing threats. Cybersecurity Ventures estimated the total of unfilled security jobs is expected to reach 3.5 million by 2021.
So, the question begs asking: In an industry that is constantly growing and full of high-pressure situations, how do you get your organization the help needed to disconnect from work and avoid potential burnout?
Identifying burnout
Burnout doesn’t just happen overnight, and it won’t be blatantly obvious when it is happening to a team member. But there are a few telltale warning signs that can be spotted. Warning signs such as disengagement start to appear, along with overall fatigue and growing insomnia. These warning signs typically appear and can be spotted before outright exhaustion sets in.
In talking to many CISOs, they have expressed these frustrations, wondering whether they want to continue being in the CISO pressure-cooker role, due to the stress and pressure building and operationalizing a security practice.
As a leader, it’s important to watch your team and yourself for additional warning signs like a gradual or sudden decline in performance, an increasing number of sick days, reduced concentration and rising intensity in disagreements.
Read more: How to combat burnout in cybersecurity
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