A project manager discovers that a team member has been saving project documents to their personal cloud storage drive to work from home, violating company security policies. What should the project manager do FIRST?

Answer options:

Report the security breach to the IT security department immediately.

Privately discuss the security violation with the team member and require immediate removal of the files.

Fire the team member for cause.

Update the project risk register.

How to approach this question

Safety/Compliance first, but done via direct management. Stop the bleeding.

Full Answer

B.Privately discuss the security violation with the team member and require immediate removal of the files.✓ Correct

Privately discuss the security violation with the team member and require immediate removal of the files.

Compliance (Task 1) requires adherence to rules. The PM must stop the violation immediately (remove files) and educate the member. Reporting to IT (A) follows, but securing the data is step 1.

Common mistakes

Just documenting it (D) or escalating without securing the data (A).

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