TRENDING
“
AS BUSINESSES ACROSS
THE WORLD ACCELERATE DIGITAL
ADOPTION TO ENSURE OPERATIONS
CONTINUE TO RUN SEAMLESSLY
FOLLOWING THE ONSET OF COVID-19,
THE PRESSURE ON CYBERSECURITY
TEAMS TO PERFORM ARE EVEN
HIGHER THAN BEFORE.
their security program suffers for a lack
of executive support. In fact, executive
accountability, or lack thereof, is the
primary reason security professionals want
to leave their current job.
“When asked what would help alleviate
their stress, executive support was in the
top five, with the remaining four items
directly controlled by executives, such as
a co-operative environment and properly
skilled and staffed security teams with the
needed budget.
Part of the report includes: “Those in the
security space have been seeing more and
more reports of the heightened stress on
the security operations center (SOC) and
the analysts and managers who run it. It is
no surprise that a whopping 75 percent of
security professionals say they have more
work stress now than they did just two years
ago. There are many reasons that might
factor into this rapid increase of pressure
on the SOC team – including evolving
threats, Digital Transformation, rapidly
increasing data and changing environments,
inadequate security solutions, and undertrained
and under-skilled team members.
“But what may come as a surprise are the
two primary causes for this increase: 1) lack
of time, and 2) executive interactions. When
asked whether their security program has
enough executive support – specifically, do
you have enough budget, does the executive
team provide a strategic vision for security,
and do you feel as though you have the buyin
you need for your program – more than
half the respondents said they do not feel
like the support is significant.
“The explicit finding that executives
are part of the problem grows as more
than half of security professionals state
“When asked what would help alleviate their
stress, increasing the security budget was the
most commonly selected answer.
“When later asked what this budget
would go towards, 58 percent of
respondents said they needed increased
funding for tools, and 47 percent of
respondents said they need to grow the
security team. These points lead back to
why executive support is so critical to a
security program. Without it – and the
budgetary support that goes with it – the
team is unable to keep up with the burden
of securing the organization’s data.” •
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