Why Your Security Analysts Are Leaving and What You Can Do to Retain Them
summary
Survey of 500 analysts finds 70% say they’re satisfied yet 47% report severe burnout and about 64% expect to change jobs within 12 months; 82% call their teams understaffed, 64% spend over half their time on manual work and 23% spend >75% of their time on tedious tasks, while 25% say >75% of their job could be automated. Practical fixes are automate repetitive triage, measure burnout as a KPI, and let analysts build detections and documentation rather than copy‑paste.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:50Job satisfaction
- 6:32Burnout and workload
- 11:07Daily challenges
- 15:41Manual work dominates
- 19:33Automation fears and growth
- 22:44Solutions for retention
- 28:21Measuring performance
- 30:28Q&A
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