Project and Programme Management Planning and Execution
Ensuring your security change programme is a success
Programme Management
Your security change programme will touch every part of your organisation. The scope and stakeholder management will be critical to its success but there is plenty to go wrong. Having such an extensive programme fail is just not an option. Astrid can help you plan and execute a security change programme or Information Security Improvement Programme that will fit your organisation and deliver real, tangible benefits at low risk.
We can identify proper staging for the programme to reduce disruption and avoid opening gaps in your control framework. We can ensure the programme delivers intermediate benefits rather than being an all or nothing exercise. We can manage stakeholder engagement to ensure the highest support internally from the teams involved or impacted.
Astrid consultants have significant experience in major security, governance and risk change programmes to leverage that experience for your organisation.
Project Planning
It is an alarming statistic that most security projects either fail completely or do not deliver their expected benefits. This is most often due to inadequate planning and scoping.
Project managers often do not understand this domain and allow aspects of the project to drive themselves. Scoping is incomplete and new systems or data sources are constantly discovered that should have been planned for. Tooling and controls don’t integrate with other systems the way they were expected to and you end up creating more islands of control, making your security team less effective and driving up the cost of security operations.
Astrid consultants have not only planned and run hundreds of projects but have often worked in operational roles where they understand the technologies involved and how they support operational processes. We can help to ensure your project has the best chance of success before you commit the budget to running it.
Astrid can also offer consultants with experience of M&A related projects.
Project Services
Astrid can provide low level project support functions such as:
- Project risk and contingency planning
- Project oversight and governance
- Stakeholder management
- Vendor management
- Project recovery
Technical Consultancy
We get it! Your security engineering team are really excited about the new tooling. But there are questions you need to be asking:
- Do our existing processes need to change to support the capabilities of the new tools?
- Can the new tools communicate with down stream systems in the same way as our existing tools?
- Have we got the capacity planning right?
- How will the new tools handle an outage? will we loose data? How long will it take us to recover the service?
- What about GDPR? What about Data Soverenty? What about the CLOUD Act?
- What if I need to extend the capability later?
Why Astrid Consulting?
Ready to strengthen your security projects? Let’s talk about how we can help.