Responding to Cyberattacks Within 72 Hours is Essential to Taming the Chaos

Despite the widespread lack of breach preparedness and adequate incident response practices in organizations, cybersecurity professionals who are tasked with responding to attacks experience stress, burnout, and mental health issues which are aggravated by a lack of breach preparedness and inadequate incident response practices.

IBM Security has sponsored a study this week that has found that two-thirds (67%) of incident responders experience stress and anxiety at least sometimes during their engagements. In response to the Morning Consult survey conducted by Morning Consult, 44% of those surveyed sacrificed their relationships for their well-being and 42% suffer burnout. According to the survey, 68% of incident responders have been operating two or more incidents at the same time. This results in them being stressed every time they are working on incidents, according to the survey results.

In an organization where incident responders, employees, and executives of the company face a wide range of incidents, such as a fire, an explosion, or a major event, John Dwyer, head of IBM Security’s X-Force response team, says that organizing and practicing how to handle such incidents can reduce the level of stress amongst incident responders, employees, and executives.

Organizers are failing to effectively establish their response strategies that are geared toward responding to emergencies with

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