How CISOs can build a resilient workforce
Summary
CISOs (chief information security officers, the leaders in charge of security at organizations) face challenges building resilient teams due to skills gaps, unpredictable workloads, and high burnout rates. The 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found that 47% of security workers feel overwhelmed and 48% feel exhausted keeping up with threats and new technology. To address this, leaders like Stephen Ford recommend using data-backed workforce planning to measure workloads, maintaining proper staffing levels, monitoring team stress, and building a sustainable talent pipeline to prevent overwhelming teams.
Solution / Mitigation
According to Ford's strategies, CISOs should use data to inform staffing levels, monitor workloads actively, balance workload distribution as much as possible, and focus on building good teams and understanding their challenges. Ford also emphasizes hiring good people, empowering them to operate, and delegating as much as possible, while spending time understanding the team's workload and how they feel about their work. Additionally, organizations should look at workforce resilience as an element of risk management requiring data-backed planning and managing the skills mix.
Classification
Original source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4136307/how-cisos-can-build-a-resilient-workforce.html
First tracked: March 2, 2026 at 03:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%