The newest buzzword for enterprises today is “attack dwell time.”

That’s what cybersecurity professionals call how long a hacker is in an enterprise before detection.   The median duration is 209 days. In two-thirds of the cases, enterprises are unaware until the FBI or another agency alerts them.

What a wake up call.

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers Interconnected, cloud-enabled technologies that give products, operations and equipment features and advantages previously unimagined – and exposes enterprises to infiltration in ways equally unimagined. A report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers details the risks and the stakes (the US Director of National Intelligence ranked cybercrime as the top national security threat, higher than terrorism, espionage, and weapons of mass destruction).

The report also offers guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework that should be in every project manager’s toolbox. So should a training solution that gets everyone on the same page, filtering in security in chartering, planning, control and updates….because no matter what our jobs are, we’re now all virtual locksmiths, too.