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What's Your Project Cybersecurity Plan for 2022?

1/19/2022

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How are you feeling about your projects and your organization’s digital security as you have been reading about malware and ransomware and hackers throughout 2021? Does it make you feel uneasy or are you of the mindset that it won’t happen to you or no one will want your data so why bother?
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What about your project clients? Have they experienced any breaches? Have you asked? Are they showing any cybersecurity concerns on your current projects? The best action is to be proactive. If they are having to ask then you are already too late to make them feel that you are in control of their data security.


Below are three key reasons why cybersecurity must be part of your project radar in 2022...
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If it wasn't created yesterday, then it's outdated. Everything can be hacked and the best blackhats are already two steps ahead of the best prevention plans anyone has. In reality, what we think is cybersecurity is really just reactive cyber defense against what happened to someone yesterday. We can anticipate what the next hack might be and build software and technology defenses against it, but that’s like trying to anticipate what might kill you tomorrow when in fact you could step in front of a bus accidentally and you probably didn’t plan for that one. You’ll never really be proactive, only reactive.


You need to hire a CSO or consultant and have them review and revise it. You planned security out with the personnel you had in charge at the time and that’s great, but hacker activity is increasing daily and targets are constantly changing. You likely need a Chief Security Officer (CSO) or at least a lead security director or analyst who will guide your organization down a finer tuned path to mitigation and avoidance of cyber criminal activity. Bottom line…you need to spend more time and get more technical expertise on board quickly to do any good in combating the potential for cybercrime affecting your organization…especially if you have sensitive data or are a larger organization with a potentially large database of customer information.


Look at your projects and clients from their side. You thought about security and cybercrime potential from your side and your potential liabilities. Now stop and look at it from your clients' side. What happens to them if some blackhat activity seriously breached their data or puts their multi-million-dollar project with you in jeopardy? What would be the reaction of your very important client base? What would be the sudden drop in revenue you might experience? What costs would they incur and what would your responsibility to them be? Think liability…


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The bottom line is this…if you weren’t too worried about cybercrime affecting you and the need for cybersecurity in your organization before…well…things have changed. 2016 is going to be different than 2015. And not for the better…which is bad because cybercrime is only increasing in number of incidents and overall costs year over year.
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    Brad Egeland


    Named the "#1 Provider of Project Management Content in the World," Brad Egeland has over 25 years of professional IT experience as a developer, manager, project manager, consultant and author.  He has written more than 8,000 expert online articles, eBooks, white papers and video articles for clients worldwide.  If you want Brad to write for your site, contact him. Want your content on this blog and promoted? Contact him. Looking for advice/menoring? Contact him.

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