Building Personal Resilience in Cyber

This week's episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea features a conversation between Ann Johnson and Kirsten Davies, chief information security officer at Unilever, where they discuss burnout and stress-related mental health concerns in the field of cybersecurity. The pressures and responsibilities of cyber roles combined with the rise in cyber-attacks and other factors appear to be making cyber a less attractive career path for security and business leaders. The importance of personal resilience and strategies leaders can adopt to improve their people's working conditions and well-being are some of the topics discussed. Kirsten is a recognized thought leader serving on the Board of Governors for the New York Academy of Sciences and is a Mentor for several non-profits and women's initiatives.

In the conversation, the two highlighted some lesser-known challenges that CISOs and cyber defenders face today and they touched on factors that may impact personal resilience. They also explore ways in which current and future CEOs can look to retain quality CISO and cyber-defender talent and shed some light on the contributing factors to the cyber talent shortage. During the podcast, Kirsten emphasized the need for cyber talent to mitigate challenges by finding ways to compartmentalize stressors and be deliberate in taking reasons to be re-energized.

If you're interested in cybersecurity and looking for some practical strategies to improve personal resilience, don't hesitate to give this podcast a listen.