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Strategic Plan For Leading The Cybersecurity Team
Strategic Plan For Leading The Cybersecurity Team
As the new team leader for cybersecurity, my goal is to transform our department into an
industry-leading team that proactively protects our organization against emerging
threats. With the rapid evolution of the threat landscape, it is crucial that we stay ahead of the
curve to secure our systems, data, and users. My vision encompasses elevating
both our technical capabilities as well as fostering a collaborative and communicative culture.
Job Goals
• Use agile framework to map out sprints and assign tasks to team members based on
their strengths.
• Hold daily standup meetings for status updates over Lark.
• Use Lark and Jira to track progress on tasks and deadlines.
• Schedule one-on-ones biweekly over Lark to check in on progress and provide
coaching.
• Encourage collaboration through Lark channels and establish clear
communication policies.
• Require participation in key Lark channels to ensure visibility.
• Leverage Lark automation and integrations with Jira to streamline workflows.
• Use Lark polls, reminders, and notifications to keep team engaged.
• Conduct retrospective meetings over Lark at sprint close to capture lessons
learned.
• Maintain open door policy and respond promptly over Lark for guidance.
• Recognize top contributors publicly through Lark announcements and rewards.
• Provide annual training budget for each team member to attend conferences,
classes, and certifications.
• Assign mentors to junior team members to provide guidance and development.
• Rotate team members across different product groups to cross-train.
• Incentivize and reward earning relevant certifications, with bonus for multiple certs.
• Conduct post-mortem reviews after major incidents and projects to capture
lessons learned.
• Foster culture of growth mindset and continuous improvement:
• Encourage team to share educational resources and training opportunities with each
other.
• Allow time for self-study and skills development during work hours.
• Send weekly industry newsletters to keep team updated on new technologies.
• Budget for team members to attend major industry conferences annually.
• Promote intelligent risk taking and learning from mistakes without blame.
• Participate in industry capture the flag events and competitions.
• Require mandatory training hours per quarter for new skills.
• Recognize autodidacts who are self-driven to learn new skills.
• Interview team members on skills goals during one-on-ones and provide
pathways.
• Bring in outside experts and speakers to expose team to new ideas.
Strategic Plan for Leading the Cybersecurity Team
Name: William Mwaisoloka
Date:24TH OCT 2023
Recent Technical Achievements
Recent Achievements
Over the past few Weeks, I was able to accomplish the following.