{"id":274433,"date":"2026-06-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/over-two-thirds-of-security-pros-say-cyber-is-getting-harder\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:50:14","slug":"over-two-thirds-of-security-pros-say-cyber-is-getting-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/over-two-thirds-of-security-pros-say-cyber-is-getting-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Two-Thirds of Security Pros Say Cyber Is Getting Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/security-pros-cyber-cyber-harder\/\">Over Two-Thirds of Security Pros Say Cyber Is Getting Harder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/security-pros-cyber-cyber-harder\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/security-pros-cyber-cyber-harder\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity professionals say their job is harder than ever, with 68% reporting it has become more difficult over the past two years, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The study, The Life and Times of Cybersecurity Professionals, Volume VIII, from industry body ISSA and analyst Omdia, surveyed 380 practitioners. It found that over 70% of respondents are facing workplace challenges linked to being locked out of key technology decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Among the key challenges cited were that other groups such as IT operations and platform engineering are increasingly involved in cybersecurity (79%). Another was that tech decisions are made without the input of cyber, creating barriers to security adoption (72%).<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0UK Cyber Security Council Launches Associate Cyber Security Professional Title<\/p>\n<p>Work-related stress was another major theme of the report: 69% of respondents claimed work-life balance can be challenging. Nearly half (47%) have thought of leaving their role or the profession due to stress over the past 12-18 months.<\/p>\n<p>The most stressful aspects of the job were cited as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overwhelming workload (24%)<\/li>\n<li>Keeping up with the security requirements of new initiatives (23%)<\/li>\n<li>Fear of getting something wrong (22%)<\/li>\n<li>Constant emergencies and interruptions (20%)<\/li>\n<li>Finding out about IT initiatives begun without security oversight (20%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report also revealed that job satisfaction can be nurtured through a strong cyber commitment from leadership (39%), competitive financial compensation (35%), and better career support (35%).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Cybersecurity Programs Need Improvement<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Only 29% of respondents rated their organization\u2019s cybersecurity culture as advanced, highlighting major opportunities for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents claimed their cybersecurity program could be most improved by increased training for IT and security pros (42%), investments in the right resources (37%), and improvements to GRC (36%) and cyber hygiene (35%).<\/p>\n<p>Collaboration with the IT function could be best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/security-pros-cyber-cyber-harder\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Two-Thirds of Security Pros Say Cyber Is Getting Harder https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/security-pros-cyber-cyber-harder\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-16 08:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/b256b4ad-ef1c-477f-8b7a-7c1608a6e457.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-274433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274433"}],"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=274433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274435,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274433\/revisions\/274435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}