The Great Resignation

Written by Allison Francis
December 21, 2021

“The impact of the ‘great resignation’ will be significant. Many companies and cybersecurity teams will struggle to execute on new projects as they spend more time onboarding and training new resources. At best, they will tread water and maintain their current cybersecurity maturity. I suspect many will see a decrease in their cybersecurity resiliency as new projects get put into production without proper security, and existing procedures get ignored since there just isn’t enough time in the day to complete all the items on your to-do list. Since existing resources are overtaxed just maintaining the status quo, successful attacks will rise.

“With the increase in U.S. government cybersecurity regulations and companies expanding their efforts with third-party risk management audits, confusion over conflicting compliance requirements will reign. This will be especially burdensome for global countries. Cybersecurity teams will have to spend even more time demonstrating compliance to multiple stakeholders taking critical time away from actually implementing stronger cybersecurity controls.

“On the positive side, the increased exposure of threats and attacks plus the high number of unfulfilled cybersecurity jobs have brought more people into the talent pipeline. Universities and educational companies will see an influx of students who wish to become cybersecurity professionals. There are also more and more alternatives to standard degrees to grow your cybersecurity skills. While it will take time for these fresh recruits to have an impact, it bodes well for the future of the profession.”

— Brian Wrozek, Chief Information Security Officer, Optiv

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Allison Francis

Allison Francis is a writer, public relations and marketing communications professional with experience working with clients in industries such as business technology, telecommunications, health care, education, the trade show and meetings industry, travel/tourism, hospitality, consumer packaged goods and food/beverage. She specializes in working with B2B technology companies involved in hyperconverged infrastructure, managed IT services, business process outsourcing, cloud management and customer experience technologies. Allison holds a bachelor's degree in public relations and marketing from Drake University. An Iowa native, she resides in Denver, Colorado.