Mental Health in Cybersecurity: The Weight of Vigilance

It's 6:47 a.m. The incident was contained hours ago. The systems are fine. You're the one still running hot. This episode opens the Month of Mindfulness, a five-week Plaintext with Rich series on mental health, spiritual health, physical health, burnout, and work-life balance for people working in cybersecurity and tech. May 1 happens to fall during Mental Health Awareness Month, which makes it the right time to start. We're talking about the mental load that comes with vigilance work: on-cal...