Securing Your Project with a Virtual Project Team

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

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Szell: “Is it safe?”

Babe: “Yes, it's safe, it’s very safe, it’s so safe you wouldn't believe it.”

Szell: “Is it safe?”

Babe: “No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful.”

-- an exchange between actors Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman from the movie Marathon Man

Are any of us really safe? In case you haven’t heard the news, some high-profile stories have become prevalent of late regarding our information security--if it’s not uncomfortable knowledge that there have been personal data breaches at a number of large retail firms, then it’s the disappointing news that there are large-scale government-sponsored spying and data-gathering efforts that pose significant threats to personal privacy. Just one happy story after another--each giving the general population another reason to lose faith in the benefits of technology.

Potentially more exposed to all of this are those employees who work remotely. Because of their virtual status, security and protection needs to be one of a project team’s highest priorities when rolling out a new endeavor. Storing, retrieving, operating, collaborating--basically, how we develop, share, distribute and publish project solutions are the essential functions for all teams. For a group that operates in a variety …

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