Why the Cybersecurity People Who Keep Us Safe Are Burning Out | Bronwyn Boyle | Infosecurity EU 2026

Bronwyn Boyle can talk about software vulnerabilities for hours. Talking about her own burnout was harder — and more important. In this On Location conversation from InfoSecurity Europe 2026, Marco Ciappelli sits down with the PPRO CISO and Cybermindz board member to talk about the human cost of defending the machine, why the security profession quietly accepted burnout as part of the job, and what it actually takes to climb back out. Bronwyn came to cybersecurity from a background in classics and philosophy, and that humanist eye runs through everything she does — from championing neurodiversity and women in cyber to her work with Cybermindz, the non-profit using a military-developed protocol to protect the mental health of the people who protect everyone else. In this conversation: • Why "we can talk about vulnerabilities for hours, but not about vulnerability when it hits us" • How burnout got priced into the job description, and why that price no longer adds up • The asymmetry that wears defenders down: be right every time, against an attacker who needs one hit • iRest: a protocol the military built for traumatized veterans, adapted for cyber teams • Why psychological resilience belongs in the security framework, next to the tech stack • What happens when we plug our analog brains into an always-on digital world 📺 Watch | 🎙️ Listen | marcociappelli.com Full InfoSecurity Europe 2026 coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecu... All ITSPmagazine event coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/technolo... CHAPTERS 0:00 - Coming home to InfoSecurity Europe, and the human side of tech 1:30 - Meet Bronwyn Boyle: CISO at PPRO, advocate at Cybermindz 3:00 - Why security people carry a particular kind of burden 5:00 - Recognizing burnout from the inside (and missing it) 6:30 - The iRest framework: getting off the hamster wheel 8:30 - Stress was never supposed to be the job description 10:30 - AI in the SOC and the analog brain question 12:30 - CISOs, liability, and who carries the weight 14:00 - Prevention by design, not just crisis response 15:30 - You can't pour from an empty jug #Cybersecurity #Infosec #Burnout #MentalHealth #Cybermindz #CISO #Resilience #AnAnalogBrainInADigitalAge #InfosecurityEurope #iRest