Privacy professionals feel more stressed than ever

According to the new ISACA’s State of Privacy 2025 survey report, reflecting insights from more than 1,600 global professionals worldwide, found that 63% of privacy professionals say their role is more stressful now than it was five years ago, with 34% indicating it is significantly more stressful.

They cite the main causes of this stress as the rapid evolution of technology (63%), compliance challenges (61%) and resource shortages (59%).

Respondents also provided insights into their most common privacy failures, listing lack of training or poor training (47%), data breaches (42%), and not practicing privacy by design (41%) in the top three.