Cybersecurity threats leading to ‘burnout’ among PHL staff, degrading productivity

MANY Philippine organizations are experiencing staff burnout from dealing with cybersecurity threats, British cybersecurity firm Sophos said.

- Beatriz Marie D. Cruz

It added that a shortage of chief information security officers (CISOs) is causing “chaos,” leading to incoherent responses to cybersecurity incidents.

“When you don’t have leaders understanding the risk and the steps towards improved cybersecurity maturity, it’s chaos... So, there’s a lack of cohesion without a CISO to translate risk to the business,” according to Gavin Struthers, senior vice-president at Sophos, said ata briefing on Wednesday.

“Because of the high stakes and the rapidly changing environments around cybersecurity, it’s a very acute problem in technology, and organizations are struggling to keep up,” he said.