Over 70% of cybersecurity professionals often have to work weekends to address security concerns at their organization, according to a new report by Bitdefender.
This intense workload appears to correlate strongly with job dissatisfaction, with around two-thirds (64%) of the 1200 cyber professionals surveyed stating that they are planning on looking for a new job in the next 12 months.
The issue of burnout and job dissatisfaction was particularly profound among UK respondents, with 81% often working weekends and 71% looking for a new job.
A substantial part of why I dropped my ideas about a cybersecurity career and started picking up languages instead. There’s no such thing as a corporation I’d ever care about enough to work weekends for them in the first place; but on top of that? Cybersecurity pros sound like little more than glorified fall guys for things they no doubt alerted their upper management to months beforehand.
I’d rather be a code monkey than a convenient patsy.
