Agile Cybersecurity Management

Abstract

Cybersecurity management has emerged as a topic of growing importance on a global scale. Applying traditional management practices to cybersecurity management results in significant reaction time delays and cannot keep up with constantly evolving digital threats. Agile methods are well suited for projects without a defined scope, duration, tasks, and resources. Based on an in-depth literature review, this research assumes adopting agile for cybersecurity aids organisations in managing cybersecurity effectively. It develops guideline for adopting agile methods in cybersecurity management after understanding the challenges associated with cybersecurity management. This research utilizes analysis of the qualitative data collected by interviews to evaluate this guideline.