Given the dire nature of the current, ever-evolving threat landscape facing enterprises today, the robust implementation of cybersecurity is no longer something organizations can stall any further. To ensure that an organization upholds its business and security functions, it must hire the “right” cybersecurity professionals to formulate better cybersecurity policies and discover and investigate any malicious behaviors in the enterprise’s environment.
However, one of the biggest obstacles to a robust cybersecurity culture within organizations is the widespread shortage of skilled security operations, which significantly increases the workload on the existing and already overworked cybersecurity staff within enterprises. Furthermore, it should also be mentioned that the massive shortage of skilled security operations and threat resources within an organization’s security operations centers (SOC) causes more significant damage and leaves many enterprises vulnerable to increased threats and vulnerabilities.
The dire cybersecurity situation takes an even more dire turn when we consider recent statistics by ESG, which state that a whopping two-thirds of security professionals believe that a cybersecurity skills gap has led to an increased workload on the pre-existing staff members.
To an ill-informed individual, the prospect of being overworked might seem like a harsh reality of working in today’s modern era and not just something relevant to the cybersecurity world- the fact of the matter is overworked security employees are more prone to making human errors such as the misalignment of tasks to skills and employee burnout, which could prove to be fatal in the long run, particularly as far as combating against the modern threat landscape of today is concerned.
