Security News > 2022 > June > Feeling highly stressed about your job? You must be a CISO

While six percent of all professionals claim to be "Highly stressed" due to their work, among CISOs, ITOs, CTOs and global IT strategy directors, the number climbs to 33 percent.

43 percent said the root cause of their stress is the expectation to always be on call, and 40 percent cite both inadequate existing security stack and insufficient SecOps staff.

Out of 1,000 respondents, 14 percent listed supply-chain attacks like what happened with SolarWinds and Kaseya, while 13 percent cited ransomware, and 11 percent said machine-learning-based attacks.

Another nine percent cited nation-state, nine percent also went with file-less attacks, and eight percent chose either potentially unwanted applications or weaponized files uploaded via SaaS apps.

In a three-way tie, seven percent cited either file-based attacks, phishing or insider threats.

Coming in at the bottom of the list, six percent listed zero-day attacks.

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