Cybersecurity Implementation Coordination
Deep dive into the offer
of Cybersecurity Implementation Coordination.
Efficient and Streamlined Coordination: Enabling IT/OT Convergence
With a shift from security being a topic only for IT departments towards security being a full organizational responsibility, the implementation of security initiatives and programs has considerably increased in complexity. This complexity increase is mainly related to cross-department and even cross-legal entities initiatives that require a higher level of communication, oversight, tracking, and transparency to ensure that stakeholders are kept on board during the entire duration of the initiatives and until initially set goals are achieved.
To address these increasingly complex implementation projects, organizations require support during the initial design, setup, operation, and closure of the desired program.
Within all these phases, key requirements and expectations are continual transparent communication towards all involved stakeholders in combination with reliable and conclusive tracking of ongoing activities.
Bridging IT and OT with Project leads Fluent in Technical and Management Languages
bridging the gap
- Bringing project and technical knowledge together:
Implementing large-scale cybersecurity initiatives requires more than project management; our project managers bring both technical expertise and strategic oversight. This dual knowledge allows them to assess decisions’ impacts on project parameters and communicate tailored insights to stakeholders at all levels.
- Bringing IT and OT together:
Similarly, implementation project require IT and OT stakeholder to work together closely. Our team gathered year of experience in working both with IT and OT team to streamline the communication to their needs.
key differentiators
- Technical Expertise
Our project managers are selected for projects based on their technical expertise, allowing them a discussion at eye level with the involved technical experts.
- Project Management Framework Selection
For each project, we apply the project management framework best suited to achieving the desired outcomes, using methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
What is it and why
is it needed?
Ramp-up
We lay the groundwork for a project or program to be successful during the Ramp-up Phase. We make important decisions at this phase, including choosing the best project management approach, defining the communication strategy, deciding on reporting intervals, analyzing stakeholders, and setting-up the overall governance setup.
Implementation
This is when we put the previously established framework into practice. We coordinate organizational, technological, and process requirements with relevant subject matter experts to guarantee the project's successful conclusion. In this phase, we focus on achieving our targeted outcomes by implementing and bringing the initiative's defined objectives to life.
Closure
In the Closure Phase, we emphasize the accomplishments and compile insightful lessons for the business as a whole and for each stakeholder individually. Additionally, in order to facilitate a smooth transition to business-as-usual operations, we proactively redefine potential follow-up actions.
client story
Following the increased regulatory requirements and an observed increased attack surface, a leading global pharmaceutical organization decided to increase its overall manufacturing cybersecurity.
After the assessment of various selected manufacturing sites and
a comprehensive strategy phase, a 2-phased 5-year program was formed to drive and govern the implementation of the required actions.
We were asked to facilitate the operationalization of this large-scale program valued at a total of over 80 million euros.
Our experts implemented a holistic program management approach to coordinate the broad set of vendors involved in this cybersecurity initiative.
As part of the program, our subject matter professionals remained in close contact with all the work streams and attended countless hours of technical alignments and plannings, allowing them to deeply understand the technical solutions, their implications to the initiatives, and their cross-workstream impacts.
With this deep technical involvement and a tailored project management approach, the organization managed to successfully implement the required cybersecurity solutions at more than 50 sites on time and on budget with our help.