Adopting Agile in Cybersecurity

“Agile” is attracting increasing attention outside of traditional software development. Its principles, such as autonomy in decision-making, self-organized teams, or incremental working methods with continuous learning cycles, are ever more recognized and applied in all kinds of projects and industry sectors as a general way of working.

Consonni, Patrick, 2023

Type of Thesis Master Thesis
Client
Supervisor Asprion, Petra
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Based on an extensive literature review, this research outlines that cybersecurity management potentially benefits from agile and that traditional practice and project methodologies are not suited anymore to adapt to the constantly evolving threat landscape and the enterprise's internal challenges related to people, technology, processes, and organization in cybersecurity.
The “M&RA Model” was incrementally evaluated and improved by analyzing and adopting qualitative data conducted by subject matter experts through brainstorming sessions and semi-structured interviews.
As part of this research, a readiness assessment model for adopting agile in cybersecurity, the “M&RA Model” was developed. The model consists of two steps: assessing the cybersecurity maturity “MA Model” and the cybersecurity readiness for agile” RA Model”. The development was based on understanding, analyzing, and comparing various established frameworks, standards, and guidelines for agile and cybersecurity.
Studyprogram: Business Information Systems (Master)
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Type of Thesis
Master Thesis
Authors
Consonni, Patrick
Supervisor
Asprion, Petra
Publication Year
2023
Thesis Language
English
Confidentiality
Public
Studyprogram
Business Information Systems (Master)
Location
Olten