Avoiding overload and managing stress in cybersecurity
For today’s episode, Robby’s joined by Lisa Ventura, Cybersecurity Specialist, Author, and qualified Mental Health First Aider. After many years of experience from the industry, she’s become particularly interested in the human aspects of cybersecurity, especially when it comes to mental health issues, stress, and burnouts.
During their conversation, Lisa explains how common stress and burnouts are in InfoSec and cybersecurity, and discuss how the pandemic impacted these numbers. As well as what the main factors contributing to stress and burnout in our industry is, and how these symptoms manifest themselves.
She also shares some advice on how to combat overload and stress both on an individual and organisational level.
If you’d like to also see Lisa’s presentation, feel free to visit our YouTube channel to watch the full recording of the episode.