Fifty-two percent of U.K. cybersecurity professionals have said they are burned out and overwhelmed by their jobs in a new poll.
Half of the respondents claimed they would quit in the next 12 months.
- 93% of respondents said they've regularly missed personal commitments because of their jobs, while 34% said this happens most or all of the time.
- 52% of the surveyed cyber professionals stated that their team spends too much time dealing with unnecessary cybersecurity notifications.
- 48% of respondents claim that their team is fatigued mainly due to working on multiple tasks.
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In terms of what threat vectors are considered the riskiest, they ranked:
- 43% of them said malware,
- 38% said ransomware
- 38% said phishing,
- and 25% business email compromise.
- On average, companies left 27% of their cybersecurity budget unspent.