"UK Cyber Pros Burnt Out and Overwhelmed"

According to security researchers at Expel, over half (52%) of UK IT decision-makers (ITDMs) expect security team members to leave within the year due to burnout.  The researchers polled 500 ITDMs from organizations of all sizes for their study.  The researchers noted that nearly half (48%) of respondents claimed that alert fatigue impacts their teams.  This typically occurs in security operations (SecOps) teams when they are unable to prioritize multiple alerts from disparate tools.  As a result, 93% of respondents said they’ve regularly missed personal commitments because of their jobs, while a third (34%) said this happens most or all of the time.  Over half (52%) agreed that their team spends too much time dealing with unnecessary cybersecurity notifications.  The researchers stated that security remains a significant challenge for UK firms.  Respondents were most concerned about the impact of malware (43%), followed by ransomware (38%), phishing (38%), and business email compromise (25%), although just 14% said the same about nation states.  The researchers stated that worryingly, on average, 27% of security budgets went unspent in 2022, amounting to around $66,000 per firm.  A fifth (21%) of respondents spent 50% or less of their budgets.

Infosecurity reports: "UK Cyber Pros Burnt Out and Overwhelmed"