Your big opportunity is right now.
The data is promising. Cybersecurity leadership in the SMB space are getting overwhelmed. They are tired of their jobs. Tired of the stress. Ready to quit.
In fact, a recent survey of over 500 CSOs currently holding top-level security positions across the United States and the UK have admitted their dislike for their roles. They want to quit. And in my opinion, with your experience, tenacity, and resources, it is your time to shine in these positions.
Your vCSO offering has never been better positioned than right now.
Almost a third of respondents in a recent survey of CISOs and IT managers exposed the bleak sentiment from the rank-and-file Chief Security Officers across the UK and US. They are considering leaving their organizations in the next 6 months. They are not looking for a shinier position elsewhere. They are simply planning on quitting their jobs.
As you are acutely aware, security is always changing. Threats are evolving and so, too are our practices to evade and mitigate them. This complicated never-ending workload is having some major impacts on the CSO workforce. Many of these folks were trained right out of universities or reared up quickly after appending acronyms behind their names on shiny business cards.
The fact of the matter boils down to their dissatisfaction with the constant sense of being overworked, never accomplishing much, or not doing enough to make a difference.
And from this dissatisfaction, many are leaving the cybersecurity industry altogether to find less stressful, more balanced work elsewhere.
They are stressed out and struggling to keep up with their day-to-day work. They lack the ability to implement new security frameworks and models. They simply bit off a little too much than they could chew. And they had no support from their teams to get any of their ambitious plans done.
This is where I think you have a major opportunity. I’ve been talking about MSPs being perfectly positioned for the vCSO seat. I’ve even written a hot off the press book on this very subject. And I am getting MSPs to get to their potential by demonstrating the precise formula to putting themselves in this CSO seat.
I believe that you can swim upstream, and lead stressed out teams. You’ve always had to do this. You have the acute experience of working under pressure, managing stressful and demanding situations—far greater than those in the CSO position.
You have a seat at the table. You have the skills and ability to be the leader in security—the leader that doesn’t quit. The leader that doesn’t throw in the towel. You have the opportunity to elevate your teams to a point where you are not just putting out fires with managed services work but improving security postures of larger organizations and reaping the benefits of bigger margins and tighter relationships across boardrooms and C-suites. Now is your time.
Bottom line: Your vCSO seat is within reach.
