According to our recent Security Staffing survey, IT security executives believe their organizatons are in greater jeopardy due to staffing shortages than their peers that oversee corporate security. Corporate security organizations outsource more than IT security departments and the most frequently outsourced positions were security guards and guard management, while IT security were more likely to outsource data back up and biometrics. Stress levels Close to half (45 percent) of the security executives in our survey describe the stress level among their staff as high, while 14 percent say it’s very high. Turnover Two-thirds (67 percent) say that turnover is not a problem in their security departments currently while 33 percent report varying degrees of turnover issues. For those companies reporting turnover problems, salary (63 percent) and demanding workloads/burnout (57 percent) were the biggest causes. Thirty-seven percent of CSOs say that their inadequate staffing levels are jeopardizing the security of their company’s facilities and an additional 34 percent say that while their staff is stretched, security is adequate.