CISA Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical CISA Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any CISA related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated CISA specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the CISA Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which CISA improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. Is there a staff development program which includes training sessions and resource packs available in the appropriate language, summarising key information about the program and systems?
   
   

2. Which is most important to ensure when developing your organization case for the procurement of a new it system that will process and store personal information?
   
   

3. What can be implemented to create strategic and tactical warning of emerging cyber threats and turn that into an operational advantage for cyber defenders?
   
   

4. Do the contractors policies and procedures address the individual roles and responsibilities pertaining to internal controls over accounting information?
   
   

5. Can the user browse dashboards and relevant information recommended by the system based on user activity and popular usage across the platform?
   
   

6. Does the system incorporate a mechanism for the transfer of accounting and auditing information from local accounts to a central repository?
   
   

7. What organization information should be reviewed by the audit committee before being distributed to the public or given to analysts?
   
   

8. Does the vendor use leading practices for designing and programming the system to minimize security and operational problems?
   
   

9. Are all the changes to IT systems, and also to other processes that could affect information security, strictly controlled?
   
   

10. Are information systems regularly reviewed to check the compliance with the information security policies and standards?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the CISA book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your CISA self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the CISA Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which CISA areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough CISA Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage CISA projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step CISA Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 CISA project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Executing Process Group: Do CISA project managers understand your organizational context for CISA projects?
   
   

2. Probability and Impact Assessment: Costs associated with late delivery or a defective product?
   
   

3. Procurement Audit: Are buyers prohibited from accepting gifts from vendors?
   
   

4. Procurement Management Plan: If standardized procurement documents are needed, where can others be found?
   
   

5. Risk Audit: Can assurance be expanded beyond the traditional audit without undermining independence?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Are actuals compared against estimates to analyze and correct variances?
   
   

7. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its system for managing intellectual property issues is appropriately effective, constructive and fair?
   
   

8. WBS Dictionary: Are the latest revised estimates of costs at completion compared with the established budgets at appropriate levels and causes of variances identified?
   
   

9. Activity Duration Estimates: Are steps identified by which CISA project documents may be changed?
   
   

10. Stakeholder Management Plan: At what point will the CISA project be closed and what will be done to formally close the CISA project?


 
Step-by-step and complete CISA Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 CISA project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 CISA project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 CISA project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 CISA project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 CISA project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 CISA project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any CISA project with this in-depth CISA Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose CISA projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in CISA and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make CISA investments work better.

This CISA All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.