Cybersecurity has never been a low-stress field. The industry attracts dedicated, highly-skilled perfectionists who are all too willing to shoulder the burden of a company’s cybersecurity without complaint. Yet, increased threats of ransomware and cyberattacks are creating an anxiety filled workplace. The current technological skills gap means there is frequently too much work for too few people. Stress, working overtime, missing holidays and birthdays, it’s all too often considered ‘part of the job.’ 9 in 10 CISOs said they were under high or moderate levels of stress; COVID only amplified this. 80% of information security personnel say they’re dealing with more stress in the wake of the pandemic, however the impacts are rarely talked about. 40% of CISO respondents said that stress levels impacted their relationship with their partners or children. As stress mounts for CISO’s, their ability to focus on their job, remaining calm and aware of potential threats, decreases. The Zensory is the first work-productivity app designed for professionals in high-stress fields, using multi-faceted tools to decrease anxiety and promote discipline in their work.
Stress isn’t some new phenomena, it’s a primordial response, an activation of the amygdala which triggers a hunter-gatherer fight or flight instinct designed to keep you alive. It was quite helpful back when threats were life or death. Now we are more likely to experience low-level stress, where a threat comes from a mistaken line of code or an untrained employee opening a suspicious link. This is chronic low-level stress, where the stress-centre of the brain is kept running like a car motor, and has knock-on effects on focus and produ ..
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