As per a recent report by Gartner, through 2025, 1 in 4 CISOs may consider ending their security career.
Gartner also predicts that within two years, almost half of the security leaders may decide on a career change.
“CISOs are on the defense, with the only possible outcomes that they don’t get hacked or they do. The psychological impact of this directly affects decision quality and the performance of cybersecurity leaders and their teams,” Deepti Gopal, director analyst, Gartner.
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Many CISOs feel that a significant breach may have a negative impact on their professional reputation.
Emotional and physical burnout always surfaces as the most significant reason forcing CISOs and other cyber security leaders to either change or quit their profession.
Many CISOs may find career progression could be faster-paced, feel experts. Also, it is a common perception that the role of CISOs could be terminal. This is because many CISOs were earlier working as CISOs, and the next stage for them is as CISOs in other sections or departments.
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“CISOs are constantly trying to balance high expectations against an absence of the tools needed to meet those expectations. Customer-centric cybersecurity programs, significantly low executive support, and subpar industry-level maturity are all indicators of an organization that does not view security risk management as critical to business success,” further explains the report by Gartner.