Organizations that invest in targeted resilience training for members of their cyber security teams show transformative benefits, new research from Cybermindz shows.
The Cybermindz iRest Impact Study used three well-regarded psychometric instruments to measure the impact on cyber security professionals of eight one-hour resilience training sessions. Sessions were delivered remotely and followed a cyber-optimised application of the military-proven, neuroscience-backed Integrative Restoration (iRest) protocol.
These sessions generated significant, positive impacts on multiple cognitive and emotional performance risk factors, including:
- An average of an extra 26 minutes of sleep per night and an overall improvement in sleep quality of 16%, with ‘good sleepers’ nearly doubling (from 27% to 47%), as measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.
- 100% elimination of clinical acute burnout crisis cases (from 4% to 0%) – the most severe burnout profile where professionals are simultaneously highly exhausted, highly cynical, and doubting their effectiveness.
- A 77% reduction in broader at-risk burnout cases, from 21% to 5% of participants: those showing moderate-to-high levels across all three burnout dimensions.
- A 71% reduction in participants showing attrition risk, from 27% to 8%. Marked by moderate cynicism, the attrition warning zone is regarded as the strongest predictor of resignation.
“It’s essential for organizations to mitigate against the burnout-induced inability of cybersecurity staff to perform at their best; left unaddressed, the almost inevitable alternative is continuing degradation in the protection of critical systems and assets. This research shows that personal resilience training is an efficient and cost-effective solution, yielding a transformative impact on operational resilience.
Peter Coroneos, founder of Cybermindz
