Cyber professionals say industry urgently needs to confront mental health crisis ( cyberscoop.com )

nobleshift , 9 months ago

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agent_flounder , 9 months ago

That’s fucked. Companies need to treat their operational infosec folks way better than that.

Meanwhile over here on the engineering side, where I have zero operational responsibilities, the last 20 years have been quite nice. Please join me :)

ShunkW , 9 months ago

I worked in IAM and then IAM software dev for JPMC back in the day, so I worked with the cyber Sec people a lot. I was burned out, those people were fried. I felt so bad every time I had to bother them. Walking up to someone’s cubicle and they would be so startled and you could tell their nerves were just toast.

I ended up being an application security engineer for a while at a different company and I was the only one. After 6 months I went back to just software dev and got out of security all together honestly. I love the stuff but the lack of resources and funding but with massive expectations is a nightmare.

MystikIncarnate , 9 months ago

I’m not a cybersecurity admin, I do sysadmin and network admin work mainly. I’ve taken more time off this year from burnout than I have worked this year.

The problem isn’t exclusive to security, and it’s not getting better. The entire IT support industry is grinding it’s workers to the bone and there’s already a need for more workers. By the time this grinder is finished, there won’t be anyone left to do support.