Using Teambuilding to Improve Performance for Geographically Distributed Information Security Professionals

IT Security agents are often distributed geographically. Many team building techniques focus on groups who can gather physically and can do offsite activities together. IT Security collectives can improve their ability to work together if they engage in team building activities which can be done virtually. This paper describes the change in leader opinions as a result of team building activities conducted in working groups that were geographically disbursed. It also documents some objective measures of security which were positively impacted by focusing on team interaction.