Information Security Career Advice: 'Pick Your Battles'

Burnout remains a perennial information security career hazard.

With the pace of global change so often creating a sense of accelerating chaos, it's easy to view cyber defenders as firefighters constantly on call. But Black Hat conference founder and creator Jeff Moss warned that "things have been on fire for as long as I can remember" (see: Black Hat Europe: Chaos Puts Cybersecurity in the Hot Seat).

"You've got to pace yourself," he said. "You've got to pick your fights and pick your battles, and you have to be OK not winning, you have to be OK not solving everything, you have to be OK with half measures and half solutions, which suck, but if you have a black-and-white absolutist view, you're going to burn out."

In this audio interview with Information Security ...