The Silent Scourge: A Call to Action Against Burnout in Cybersecurity

This article examines the growing burnout crisis among cybersecurity professionals, linking sustained stress and alert fatigue to degraded security outcomes and attrition, and urges leaders to build supportive cultures. It advocates practical steps such as recognizing achievements, clarifying policy governance and exception management, engaging business leaders in risk decisions, and promoting industry measures like SBOMs to reduce inherent software risk—all to strengthen organizational resilience by safeguarding the well-being of cyber defenders.