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Unplug your team:
combating cybersecurity burnout

Identify and address burnout in your team (and yourself)

Whether you’re a boots-on-the-ground SOC analyst or an always-on CISO, you know that cybersecurity is already a stressful industry.

And the ever-evolving threat landscape, expectations of perfection, and decreasing budgets don’t make your job any easier.

They’re contributing factors of burnout, which is running rampant across our industry at all levels.

This ebook explores cybersecurity burnout and offers tips and strategies to identify and address it, so that you and your teams can actually disconnect.

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Unplug your team: combating cybersecurity burnout ebook cover

This ebook covers:

  • How to identify cybersecurity burnout (in yourself and others)
  • How to address burnout, both with small adjustments and strategic maneuvers
  • The effects of burnout at every level (even for CISOs)

Peer insights on managing burnout in cybersecurity

Here’s advice from our customers to you on how to manage stress and/or burnout

Reliance on a third party can be a good thing. Leaning on the skillset of Expel for our initial first defense has been a great experience, freeing us up to focus on other critical items.”

⎯Leon Schmitz, CISO | OneStream Software

Depending on your org size and amount of data you want to monitor, making a wise decision on [your] MDR vendor is crucial. Even if you don’t have budget to onboard an MDR vendor, moving focus to risk based alerting will definitely reduce the alert volume and fatigue”

⎯Manish Dey, Staff Security Engineer | Affirm

Practice what you preach—set an example by having work-life balance. Create a safe place where people feel comfortable sharing when they have too much on their plate and need help.”

⎯Manager Cyber Detection & Response | Insurance Company