{"id":236028,"date":"2026-04-26T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/nearly-half-of-cybersecurity-pros-want-to-quit-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:40:07","slug":"nearly-half-of-cybersecurity-pros-want-to-quit-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/nearly-half-of-cybersecurity-pros-want-to-quit-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of cybersecurity pros want to quit &#8211; here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/nearly-half-of-cybersecurity-pros-want-to-quit-heres-why\/\">Nearly half of cybersecurity pros want to quit &#8211; here&#8217;s why<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/nearly-half-of-cybersecurity-pros-want-to-quit-heres-why\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/nearly-half-of-cybersecurity-pros-want-to-quit-heres-why\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-26 19:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Denis Medvedev via iStock \/ Getty Images Plus<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3> ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a big mismatch between demand and rewards in cyber.<\/li>\n<li>Working pressure is only likely to increase due to the use of AI.<\/li>\n<li>Security staff should focus on strategy and communication skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Almost 20% of organizations have reported a major security attack in the past two years, and the threat environment, whether due to criminal activity or the rise of new AI-enabled models, such as Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos, continues to evolve at breakneck speed. However, the cybersecurity professionals who help their enterprises manage these challenges don&#8217;t feel adequately rewarded &#8212; and most are fed up with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the conclusion from the newly released Harvey Nash Global Tech Talent &#038; Salary Report, which surveyed over 3,646 technology professionals globally. While 19% of respondents reported a major attack at their firm in the past 24 months, those working in the security specialism were the least likely to report a pay increase over the last year. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: These 4 critical AI vulnerabilities are being exploited faster than defenders can respond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only 29% of cyber professionals said they&#8217;d received additional compensation for their efforts, which is in stark contrast to other roles, where at least half of tech professionals received a pay increase in 2025, specifically in DevOps (56%), product management (51%), and business analysis (50%). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The research clearly tells us that there&#8217;s a big mismatch between the demand and the reward in cyber,&#8221; said Ankur Anand, group CIO at technology and talent solutions provider Nash Squared, which owns tech recruiter Harvey Nash, the firm that produced the survey. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this mismatch is due to the complacency of many boards saying nothing bad has happened in the last few years, so security must be fine. And that&#8217;s the irony &#8212; that when security teams are doing so much, and they&#8217;re preventing damage to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/nearly-half-of-cybersecurity-pros-want-to-quit-heres-why\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of cybersecurity pros want to quit &#8211; here&#8217;s why https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/nearly-half-of-cybersecurity-pros-want-to-quit-heres-why\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-26&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/c3a0154c4b6982de8d7e9cf171dfdb699926480d\/2026\/04\/24\/f2980e7c-81d1-41e8-8452-8820f951eb61\/gettyimages-1162418169.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-236028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236030,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236028\/revisions\/236030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}