Incorporating Information Security into IT Project Management (A Proposed Framework)

Abstract

The study mainly focuses on the importance of information security and its integration with IT project management in form of a framework. The purpose to design this framework is to provide IT project managers a clear picture of security controls to be adopted in each phase of project management. The study is based on previous synthesis in this domain that supports the aim of this study. The designed framework is basically a combination of IT project management, system development life cycle and essential information security controls. This is a general proposal and need to be implemented practically in further researches to analyze its effectiveness.