That’s based on BlackFog’s poll of more than 400 IT decision makers at U.S. and UK companies with at least 500 employees.

Asked what aspect of the job they liked least, 30% of respondents noted a lack of work-life balance, while 27% indicated that they have to spend too much time on “firefighting” as opposed to strategic issues.

What’s more, 52% of security leaders acknowledged that they were struggling to keep up with new frameworks and models such as zero trust, while 20% said aligning their teams’ skill levels with such frameworks was a “serious challenge.” And 54% indicated they couldn’t keep up with information on the newest cybersecurity tools.

As HealthcareITNews reports, cybersecurity pros score substantially worse than the general population on a key burnout metric. According to research on cyber professionals by the Australia-based mental wellbeing support group Cybermindz, the industry’s rates of burnout by the metric of “professional efficacy” are lower than even that of frontline health workers.

Cybermindz founder Peter Coroneos highlighted several sources of stress for cybersecurity pros, including the headline-making potential of a single failure, an attack environment that defies a sense of job completion and the worry that a career-ending attack could be around the corner.

Elsewhere, as Dark Reading reports, a new survey by IT security firm Mimecast finds that 54% of cybersecurity pros felt a strain on their mental health due to ransomware attacks and 56% said their work gets more difficult every year.

Mimecast wrote, “With the profession facing a pressure cooker of ongoing attacks, disruption, and burnout, it’s critical that organizations support security teams by giving cyberattacks the focus and resources needed — or face losing critical employees.”