Cybermindz.org Recording Archive

An excerpt from a Cybermindz training on cyber mental resilience. iRest as an antidote to the four most common stressors facing cyber professionals. 

This episode of NeuroShorts by Cybermindz, brought to you by Commvault, explores how proactive mental resilience training can be integrated into incident response. It explains that stress reactions are biological and shows why rehearsing resilience protocols—like technical drills—helps cyber teams stabilize under pressure, maintain clear cognition, and reduce long-term psychological harm.
You will hear about the practical benefits of rehearsed resilience: fewer errors during breaches, better team alignment and reduced post-incident trauma -- all without stepping away from the console.

The second in this mini trilogy, exploring what happens in the mind of incident responders during and immediately after a breach. And how resilience can be restored and post-incident trauma avoided.

Part 1 of a three-part mini series on the Human Incident Response. The central theme: the breach is not resolved until the humans are restored. 

Try this practice to settle your mind and lower your heart rate.

Why reaching for a drink is a poor strategy for managing anxiety. 

Not all stress is bad. This may come as some relief. 

Some people confuse the two, but there are important differences between and consequences of Burnout versus Stress. Find out what they are so you can identify the early signs. 

This is an interesting and effective approach to help you quickly break through an unhelpful emotional state. 

Today we introduce you to the 5-4-3-2-1 technique. This is a grounding exercise used to help individuals return to the present moment by focusing on their physical senses. This practice can help shift attention away from the emotionally charged and often self-referential loops associated with the default mode network (DMN), a network in the brain active during mind-wandering, rumination, and self-focused thoughts.