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new collapse! Your entire IT asset would go down. That’s the quite annoying condition, right? It would
appear that you would need to kick off not only your tasks, but rather the entire hacker’s community. You
are the champ and you know that, but if those anomalies keep repeating you could develop some kind
of stress as well as anxiety. No champ wants to lose, but those annoying bad guys could make you lose
your patience. The champ with the mental health concern is not the champ and that’s literally the
message that the cyber criminals send to you. If you are upset, you cannot win the tournament and they
know that – so, in such a sense you would get knocked down by them and that’s seriously what you did
not want at all. Well, if you notice that someone in your company is moving your cursor in front of your
nose – you would if anxious need to break your workstation in pieces. That’s what we call the violence at
the workplace! So, few months ago you were the champ in your office and now you are only someone
getting so impatient about everything that is happening around you. The obvious reasons for that are
those so crazy anomalies in your IT environment. So, the point is clear! Even the best performance
workers could feel like losers if they got no appropriate condition to operate. The bad guys would know
that and they would so lucidly exploit such a weakness and make even the best employees feel like
dummies. That’s quite discouraging, is not so? As time goes on everyone would become resilient to that
amount of stress, but the first reaction could be quite irrational and that’s something no one would need
at all.

Assumption #4. The state of readiness could turn into a waiting condition if the common worker

got insufficient abilities in the cyberspace.

Explanation #4. So, maybe you lost your temper with the first IT anomalies occurring in your network, but
sooner or later you would build on your resilience to cope with those incidents. In other words, you would
get in the state of preparedness regarding the possible hacking attacks. The state of readiness is so
positive attribute, but if you have developed the fear that everything could go wrong – you are definitely
dealing with the waiting condition. That’s could be quite distracting for a reason it would lower your
concentration as well as focus on your tasks. So, if your inner voice is telling you to watch out from the
possible cyber operations happening at your work, your entire business performances would decrease
and you would easily get upset about anything you do. It can happen that you would sooner or later
develop the scary emotions about your work and that’s something that should get prevented if possible.
As there is the suggestion to many employers to invest into the cyber defense – we could add it’s
significant to care about the staffs’ mental health and provide them the training how to cope with their
anxiety level. The fact is some workforce would not be that brilliant in the cyberspace, so they would
undoubtedly develop the waiting condition if they face on several cyber campaigns and lose some of their
valuable data. In other words, these guys would be less confident with the company and they would
easily get bullied by such skillful cybercrime actors. The waiting condition could get manifested with so
obsessive thoughts and sometimes emotions about some event. If your mind is preoccupied with so
many repeating thinking patterns about some pessimistic ideas – you would obviously get less effective
regarding your usual routine. The cybercrime can occur at any time and any place and the experienced
IT security professionals would sit in front of their screens and tackle those concerns applying so
sophisticated cyber defense tools on. You should always get that in mind before you let your over-
obsessive fears taking control over your ratio. If you really cope with the insufficient IT skill – you could
get annoyed with anything happening in the cyberspace. Your subconscious mind would accumulate so
many doubts, questions and ugly memories and that’s why you would feel the frustration about any new
working hour waiting for something bad to happen again and again. In other words, it’s quite clear that

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