Stress: An Impediment to You and Your Team's Ability to Defend Your Cyber Assets - Learn How to Identify and Manage Stress While Building Resilience for Your Operators and Teams

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Presented at SecTor 2023 by

Jennifer Stanford

Defending against cyber-attacks is your main priority. The expectations and stakes are high. Mistakes can be catastrophic. The pressure can be so intense that it bleeds over into the next day, the next month, and into our personal lives. Human stress is often overlooked until it becomes a major factor in organizational or personal performance. Nominet published a report that 91% of CISOs surveyed say that they suffer moderate or high stress. High job stress and/or low job satisfaction can result in productivity losses, personal distress, and risky mistakes. If these mistakes lead to a data breach, guilt, anger and panic can spread through the team and organization, making the situation worse. At the operator level: 66% experience stress at work and 64% say their work impacts their mental health. Leaders need to learn how to manage self and team stress, so they are ready when chaos occurs. This presentation will help managers with the following:A. Understand what stress is and what the research says stress is doing to cyber roles.B. Identify stress in yourselves and others.C. Tool to manage stress for yourself and your team.D. Staying balanced and ready to face stress.E. Build personal and team resilience so they can focus on defending cyber assets.