Being a CISO can be stressful. That should come as no surprise. According to a new report, the stress is bad enough to cause health issues and personal relationship crises, and on average, CISOs stay in each job for just 26 months. The CISO Stress Report by Nominet, a U.K. domain registry, reveals that 95% of CISOs work longer hours than they are contracted for and 88% are “moderately or tremendously stressed.” While CISOs are undoubtedly under a lot of pressure, it’s important to not paint all of cybersecurity with the same brush, and to draw a distinction between job stressors and job dissatisfaction. The two are not always synonymous. In fact, the 2019 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found that

By Clayton Jones, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific for (ISC)² The past few weeks have been challenging. Governments, individuals and organizations are working hard to contain the spread of Covid-19. Many of us across the Asia-Pacific region are still haunted by the SARS epidemic that wreaked havoc back in 2003. At the time, I had a very young family and was new to (ISC)², which in the region was still in its infancy. I feared for the health of my family and was also very conscious of the potential impact an economic downturn in the region could have on my recently created position. 17 years later, my children are young adults and (ISC)² has grown our membership in the region to over

(ISC)²’s Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is currently the sixth highest paying IT certification, according to newly published research. CISSP-certified cybersecurity professionals earn salaries averaging more than $140,000. The CISSP is one of just six IT certifications commanding salaries above $140,000, which places them on the 15 Top-Paying IT Certifications for 2020 compiled by training company Global Knowledge. The list contains salaries ranging from an average of $117,000 for Citrix Certified Professional – Virtualization to nearly $176,000 for Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect. The list’s top four certifications are either in cloud computing or cybersecurity, confirming that demand in these two areas continues to soar. In cybersecurity, (ISC)²research has revealed an acute shortage of cybersecurity skills, currently estimated at 4

The number of U.S. data breaches bumped up 17% in 2019 but despite the increase, the volume of sensitive consumer records that were exposed declined substantially by 65%, according to a newly published report. These statistics are a complete reversal of what happened in 2018, when the number of exposed consumer records soared by 126% and breaches declined by 23%, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) End-of-Year Data Breach Report for 2019  Data breaches tracked in 2019 in the United States jumped to 1,473, from 1,257 in the previous year, the report revealed. Meanwhile, 164,683,455 sensitive records were exposed, compared to 471,225,862 in 2018. The ITRC notes, however, that the 2018 Marriott data alone exposed 383 million records,

This is one you won’t want to miss. (ISC)² Director of Cybersecurity Advocacy, John McCumber, will walk through the 2019 Cybersecurity Workforce Study results in a webinar hosted by the Center for Internet Security this Wednesday, February 12 at 12:30 p.m. ET. In an era of high-profile data breaches and devastating cyber attacks, cybersecurity impacts every individual and every organization. But (ISC)² research also shows that those in the field are optimistic that those challenges can be overcome if organizations take the right approach to growing the workforce and building strong cybersecurity teams. The presentation, titled “The Cybersecurity Workforce Shortage & How We Can Combat It” will dive into: An overview of the 2019 (ISC)² Cybersecurity Workforce Study The numbers and