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When Tony was signed off for burnout from his cybersecurity awareness role at a major UK ecommerce company last year, it had been a long time coming.<\/b><\/p>\n

“Many of us in cyber, we put our hearts into our job. There’s a lot of passion involved.”<\/p>\n

He had found it progressively harder to sleep, and to go into the office.<\/p>\n

Tony, who did not want his real name used, recalls\u00a0the Wannacry ransomware attack<\/a>\u00a0in 2017. “It was a Friday and something came up on BBC News.”<\/p>\n

The security team got on a call that evening and the decision was taken to remove every single device from the network.<\/p>\n

“And it was Sunday afternoon that I came offline,” he says.<\/p>\n

The firm hadn’t been hit by the bug, he says. “It was all preparatory work.”<\/p>\n

Tony said this pattern is currently being repeated across organizations trying to protect themselves against the\u00a0Scattered Spider attacks<\/a>\u00a0that hit retailers and other businesses this year.<\/p>\n

And, he says, “I can’t even imagine what the folks at Co-op and M&S have gone through.”<\/p>\n

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“If you think you might be burning out, you’re already on your way there,” says Andrew Tillman, former head of cyber risk and assurance for the UK’s Health Security Agency.<\/p>\n

He says cyber security can, at times, be “the best job in the world”. But when things get bad “it can be a bit of a dangerous place to be”.<\/p>\n

Mr Tillman has suffered bouts of “burnout” himself through his four years at the agency.<\/p>\n

That stress is revealing itself in data collected by ISC2, the membership organisation for cybersecurity professionals.<\/p>\n

Its\u00a0annual Workforce Study,\u00a0external<\/span><\/a>\u00a0showed a 66% favourable job satisfaction rate in 2024, down four percentage points from the previous year.<\/p>\n

Burnout is a “major issue” for the sector, ISC2’s chief information security officer Jon France says.<\/p>\n

He says professionals in the industry are increasingly being asked “to do more with less” which only increases stress and job dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n

“Cyber professionals rarely work nine to five”, he adds, “Even if they do, they remain on call because threat actors don’t adhere to office hours.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Part of the issue is that hackers have become more aggressive, prepared to target critical national infrastructure, or cripple health organizations with ransomware.<\/p>\n

Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: BBC News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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