The Concerning Statistics About Mental Health in Cybersecurity

This sponsored article summarizes a report on mental health in cybersecurity, finding that only 67% of security professionals rate their mental health as good/very good/excellent, 27% said their mental health declined in the past year, and roughly two-thirds experience stress that affects productivity; it attributes causes such as the pandemic, remote work, increased attacks, and understaffing, and recommends organizational actions—normalizing mental-health conversations, reducing stressors, encouraging PTO, and providing resiliency resources and benefits—to improve wellbeing and productivity.