November 2022 | Shields Up: Cybersecurity Project Management by Greg Skulmoski

We expect more automation, integration, and online activity in the foreseeable future resulting in more cybersecurity risks and issues. Therefore, organisations and individuals are spending more resources on cybersecurity projects to implement, maintain and optimise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their digital services and data. The demand for cybersecurity projects and expertise is growing; it is a great time to learn about cybersecurity project management.

Cybersecurity is complex and aligning it to a multitude of international standards can be problematic. In Dr. Greg Skulmoski’s presentation, attendees will be introduced to a project management approach that combines standards and is tailored to cybersecurity projects.

PRINCE2, the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ITIL Service Management, ISO Risk Management, ISO Quality Management, and ISO Information Security Standards are aligned into a project delivery approach applicable to most cybersecurity projects, most of the time. The attendees will also learn about a risk management technique not in the PMBOK® Guide that they can use on their projects tomorrow!

Greg Skulmoski is an award-winning project manager having led critical infrastructure projects in Australia, Middle East, and Canada. Greg’s innovative use of project management tools and processes won the CISO 2017 Middle East Security Award (for risk management in projects). Later, Greg was one of the project managers for the Smartphone-Connected Pacemaker Devices program that placed third in Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2021.

Dr. Skulmoski currently teaches risk management and project innovation management at Bond University in the Faculty of Society and Design, in Australia. Greg’s teaching focus is on using practical processes and tools to successfully implement projects, including digital transformation and metaverse projects. Greg’s critically acclaimed book – Shields Up: Cybersecurity Project Management. Greg is writing Cybersecurity Readiness: A Project Management Approach to Training that provides a lean approach to cybersecurity general awareness and role-based training scheduled for publication in 2023.