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Thoughts Thoughts EL DIARIO DEL CISO (THE CISO JOURNAL) Pensando y Trabajando por un Líder de Seguridad Digital Thoughts of LSD Leadership of #LSD goes through his mental, spiritual and physical balance (#LSD/ #LíderSegDigital) Andrés Ricardo Almanza Junco Digital security professionals are living a very complex moment in the current digital reality, many pressures and tensions directly on professionals are seen today; This is reflected in a recent study by the firm Nominet , which relates the challenges that are affecting both the physical and mental health of digital security professionals, particularly the #LSD. Among the data that stand out 91% of the security professionals interviewed according to the firm says to be under moderate to high stress. More than 60% of them say that they rarely disconnect from work and take vacations or breaks. In the same report it is highlighted that 26.5% say that stress is so high that they already have physical health problems, 23% manifest problems in their personal lives and 17% resort to self-medication or medication by professionals, as well as the alcohol to deal with stress. There are pressures not only from the outside "Cyberspace", from the inside "Organization" and from the nature of the "human" professional, which are generating the causes of the exhaustion of digital security professionals. All these data and others of the same study leave some questions, among them. What is the digital security professional doing to take care of your health? Psychologists and human talent specialists warn that high levels of stress affect #performance, #productivity, judgment, decision making, among other aspects that lead to problems in the office, personal life and health of the professional; This makes people without proper management go to drugs, alcohol or drugs or other types of inappropriate behavior that do not generate relief in stress situations and on the contrary can increase problems and pressures. According to the report there are many alternative solutions at the organizational level, however the proposal of this article is to invite the #LSD to observe alternatives that will help you have key alternatives that can alleviate the tensions generated by their work. "The #LSD must be clear that the balance is essential to adequately perform its function, without it in mind their work becomes a double weapon that prevents it from developing properly, additionally affecting its performance" Thinking about the mental, physical and spiritual balance of an #LSD, the following activities are related that become the necessary vitamins that tend to improve health. Such activities may be useful to develop healthy habits # thinking about the balance of professional digital security. This set of activities built as # habits can help to build equilibriums that have an impact on the #productivity, # performance and # performance of the #LSD and thus increase their capacities that will affect the development of the function in the organization they serve. Which of them are you using? Which do you think you should use? How do you think you are performing your functions as # LSD? How can any of these tools help in the development of your functions like # LSD? "The #happiness comes with what we do the #satisfaction when we discover what we do it for and the fullness appears when we accept who we are". Aalmanza References Life inside the perimeter; Understanding the modern CISO. Nominet Cyber Security. [email protected]