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Speaker Bio: 

Greg Skulmoski PhD, MBA, BEd, CITP, FBCS is an award-winning project manager having led critical infrastructure projects in Australia, the 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 digital transformation 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 teaches risk management and project innovation management at Bond University in the Faculty of Society and Design, in Australia. Greg’s teaching focuses on using practical processes and tools to successfully implement projects, including digital transformation, robotics, and metaverse projects. Greg’s critically acclaimed book – "Shields Up: Cybersecurity Project Management" combines research and practice into a concise guide to cybersecurity projects. Greg is writing "Cybersecurity Readiness: A Project Management Approach to Training" which provides a lean approach to cybersecurity general awareness and role-based training scheduled for publication in 2023. The World Economic Forum (2022) wrote that human error is responsible for 95% of cybersecurity incidents! Cybersecurity training is becoming an operational necessity.

Speaker LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregoryskulmoski/

Presentation Description: 

We expect more automation, integration, and online activity in the foreseeable future resulting in more cybersecurity risks and issues. Therefore, organizations and individuals are spending more resources on cybersecurity projects to implement, maintain and optimize 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 with many 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 detailed in his book "Shields Up: Cybersecurity Project Management." The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3™), NIST Cybersecurity Framework, COBIT IT Governance Framework, ITIL Service Management, ISO Risk Management, ISO Quality Management, and ISO Information Security Standards are aligned into a project delivery and optimization approach applicable to most cybersecurity projects, most of the time.