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ISACA’s 2024 State of Cybersecurity report reveals that stress levels are on the rise for cybersecurity professionals, largely due to an increasingly challenging threat landscape. The annual ISACA research also identifies key skills gaps in cybersecurity, how artificial intelligence is impacting the field, the role of risk assessments and cyber insurance in enterprises’ security programs, and more.

The demand for cybersecurity talent has been consistently high, yet efforts to increase supply are not reflected in the global ISACA IS/IT-community workforce. The current cybersecurity practitioners are aging, and the efforts to increase staffing with younger professionals are making little progress. Left unchecked, this situation will create business continuity issues in the future.

Shrinking budgets and employee compensation carry the potential to adversely affect cybersecurity readiness much sooner than the aging workforce, when the Big Stay passes. Declines in vacant positions across all reporting categories may lead some enterprises to believe that the pendulum of power will swing back to employers, but the increasingly complex threat environment is greatly increasing stress in cybersecurity teams; therefore, the concern is not if, but when, employees will reach their tipping point to vacate current positions.

SPEAKERS

• Zeynep Soylu – Sydney Chapter President 
• Chirag Joshi – Sydney Chapter Board Member 
• Abby Zhang – Auckland Chapter Board Member
• Bharat Bajaj – ISACA Melbourne Board Director