Stressful aspects of cybersecurity professionals' careers worldwide 2021

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Alexandra Borgeaud,
Mar 31, 2023
Almost a third of the global cybersecurity professionals surveyed feel that finding out about IT initiatives and projects that were started by other teams within their own organization without any security oversight is the number one cause of stress in their job as of 2021.

Most stressful aspects of cybersecurity professionals' jobs worldwide in 2021

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Release date

July 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

March 1 to April 7, 2021

Number of respondents

489 respondents

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cybersecurity and IT professionals

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "What are the most stressful aspects of your job as a cybersecurity professional?"

Three answers were possible.

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