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Increased risks: How cybersecurity burnout is impacting business
In this exclusive roundtable session, join cybersecurity leaders as they delve into ways companies can support their workforce, making a genuine impact on issues like fatigue, stress, and burnout, while also crafting effective strategies for meaningful change.
Presented by Hack The Box
Overview
Cybersecurity is one of the industries most vulnerable to burnout. 84% of cybersecurity professionals are experiencing burnout, which is directly affecting performance. With human error as the cause of most incidents and breaches, mental health in the industry should be addressed as the first concern of technical leaders.
Hack The Box is on a mission to create and maintain high-performing cybersecurity individuals and organizations. This means helping security leaders across the globe to equip their teams with the skills and expertise they need to proactively secure and protect their organization. Individuals need to possess the hard skills and knowledge to fulfill their job responsibilities – but they also require the capability to match existing processes with concrete business outcomes, and an environment fostering career progression and well-being.
Based on Hack The Box's latest report named "Building a firewall against cybersecurity burnout":
- 90% of CISOs are concerned about the impact of stress and burnout on poor mental and physical well-being of cybersecurity professionals.
- Skills development opportunities play a major role in mitigating burnout, with 62% of managers rating “opportunities to learn new skills” as the best way to prevent burnout among security staff.
- 65% of cybersecurity and infosecurity professionals have experienced fatigue, stress, and burnout due to skill gaps and pressure to perform beyond their capabilities.
Fighting fatigue, stress, and burnout takes a commitment from businesses, but also from the industry, to explore the true causes and build effective strategies for change.
This panel unites cybersecurity experts and thought leaders to discuss why this issue is escalating and how companies can support their workforce and genuinely make a difference.
Speakers
Haris Pylarinos is the Founder and CEO of Hack The Box. With a vision to connect and upskill the cybersecurity community worldwide, Haris disrupted the industry by introducing Hack The Box to the world, and its innovative holistic 360º approach to cyber workforce development, assessment, and recruitment.
Leading the company’s expansion worldwide, Haris has been managing to grow Hack The Box exponentially. Under his leadership, the team scaled to over 260 employees and over 2.8 million platform members since its launch in 2017.
In addition to his role at Hack The Box, Haris has over 15 years of experience and expertise in cybersecurity and systems engineering. He also possessed a strong background in Networking and Software Architecture.
Industry certifications: OSCP, MCSA, MCTS, CEI, CEH
Jess is a principal analyst at Forrester serving security and risk (S&R) professionals. She contributes to Forrester’s research on the role of the CISO with a focus on security talent management. Additionally, Jess covers incident response and crisis management, as well as email security.
Sarb is the CTO at Virtually Informed and was the Global CISO for AirEye and the Noord Group. He has previously worked as a consultant covering most issues in risk and security. Sarb’s contributions to the industry include the Chair and Founding member of the Mental Health in Cyber Security Foundation, and the Executive Steering Board of the IoT Security Foundation. He was inducted into the CSO Hall of Fame in 2023 and included the CSO30 in 2021.
Other contributions include Past President of the ISACA London Chapter, Chair of ISACA International GRA Region 3 Sub-Committee, Chair of ISACA International GRA Committee, ISSA UK Advisory Group member, InfoSecurity Magazine Editorial Group member, SC Magazine Editorial Group member. Sarb has also served on Security Standards Groups and continues to write for several publications and speak at risk and security events around the world.
Andrea has over 16 years of experience in cybersecurity and joined Ferrari Group as the group CISO in 2023. Before this role, in 2021, he worked in Amplifon as the Global Head of Cybersecurity. His journey also includes serving as cybersecurity manager at Deloitte, where Andrea led the Deloitte resilient service line and was a key member of the Deloitte global COE for connected products security.
His career includes significant roles at Accenture, NTT Data, and KPMG. Beyond his professional roles, Andrea is an active OWASP contributor, particularly for the LLMs project, reflecting his engagement with pioneering cybersecurity challenges and solutions.
He holds a master’s degree in engineering management from the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Graham Cluley is an award-winning cybersecurity researcher, keynote speaker, podcaster, and writer. During the early 1990s, he wrote Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit, one of the world’s first anti-virus products for Windows, at a time when the cybersecurity industry was just beginning. He later worked in senior roles at major cybersecurity companies, Sophos and McAfee. Graham has also worked with law enforcement agencies, assisting with investigations into hacking groups. Graham has received many accolades including Cybersecurity Educator of the Year, was named one of the World’s Top IT Security Influencers, and was inducted into the InfoSecurity Hall of Fame in 2011.