Worth a Read: “7 cybersecurity mindsets that undermine practitioners and how to avoid them”

A recent article posted in CSOonline by Matthew Tyson, “7 cybersecurity mindsets that undermine practitioners and how to avoid them”, outlines 7 points to remember when dealing with Cybersecurity. He discusses that cybersecurity jobs are burning people out because of the high-pressure environment. He goes on to state that one of the underlying causes of this is the way we think about cybersecurity.

Both Business Owners and Cybersecurity Professionals need to rethink security in different ways. This may help to reduce the stress of the continual striving to achieve and see it as a process that must be continuously worked on and that you never finished with.

Responsibility must be shared by everyone with the success of this process not just by those in charge of securing your systems. We must realize that the attackers are getting smarter and are building on their successes and learning from their failures. We need to be quick in response to newly identified problems daily. We need to understand that security cannot be achieved from just one tool but many that work together. The more layers of security that you can put in place the better your chances of having success. One of the reasons for having to continually work on battling attackers is that they are driven by the success of their crimes. The better they get, the more successful events they achieve the richer they will get. Measuring your success and failures is important as well. How else can you determine if you are moving in the right direction? Be honest with your results and remember that security is a thankless job.

The results of failure are much harsher than the results of success. Realize this and don’t take it to heart when you are not being patted on the back every day for not allowing the failure in security.