The protocol has been used by the US Military since 2006 for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan and in 2010 was approved by the US Army Surgeon General as a Tier 1 complementary therapy. Using an evidence based, ‘military-grade' protocol called Integrative Restoration or ‘iRest’, Cybermindz builds and restores cognitive and emotional resilience in our embattled cyber teams and related disciplines. With cyber security professionals our cyber defenders and protectors, Cybermindz is peer-informed (like helping like) and will operate at scale to transform the human face of cybersecurity. The relentless threat environment by unseen attackers is felt directly by our defenders whose neurology adapts to an unhealthy ‘hypervigilance’. Organisations today depend on cybersecurity teams, both internal and external, to protect their customers and themselves from an ever-growing barrage of cyber threats across increasingly anything that is, or can be turned into, an attack surface.Ĭybercriminals, hackers, nation states and other bad actors experienced digital acceleration during the pandemic too, and have escalated their attacks to such levels it feels appropriate to reference the title of Michelle Yeoh's hit movie and point out we are being attacked by everything, everywhere, all at once. An idea whose time has come, provides scalable, effective and evidence-based mental health support and on-the-ground resilience building to cyber teams and those in related roles.įounded by cyber and internet industry leader Peter Coroneos, and supported by a first-rate board and drawing from a national pool of over 400 accredited facilitators, Coroneos has launched a powerful, innovative, dedicated not-for-profit mental health initiative for the cyber sector and beyond:.