Peculiarities of Project Management in Cyber Defense

Abstract

The article provides a conceptual assessment of the existing definition of the term "project" and improved its management interpretation. The main essential characteristics of the project are formulated, the corresponding categorical device is given, which allows to systematize the project activity and adapt it to different objects of the application. In particular, an attempt was made to clarify the definition of the project in cybersecurity and cyberdefense. The processes influencing project activity at the level of the state, regions, and separate enterprises are defined. It is proved that although the problems of cybersecurity are gradually shifting to the state level in the context of national security, project activities in this area occur primarily at the level of the individual business. The peculiarities of cybersecurity projects such as increased level of state influence, the complexity of the initiation stage, critical implementation deadlines, significant budget differentiation, unlimited number of possible participants, high level of personalization, difficulty in calculating efficiency indicators are highlighted. The key tasks of project management in cybersecurity are defined: formulation of the main goal of the project and ranking of its goals, determination of necessary volumes and sources of financing, assessment of project risks, selection of project executors, scheduling of project implementation, resource requirements, control, etc. Proposals for optimizing project management processes in the field of cybersecurity have been formed. Emphasis is placed on the prospects of using consistent project management methods, due to simplified communication with customers, the ability to divide the process of implementing cybersecurity systems into certain stages, as well as to introduce an effective monitoring and control mechanism at these stages.