ISAE 3402 Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical ISAE 3402 Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the ISAE 3402 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 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which ISAE 3402 improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. In what ways does the service auditor's understanding of the service organization's reporting requirements and objectives impact the quality and reliability of the report, and how are these requirements and objectives communicated to stakeholders?
   
   

2. In what ways does the service auditor's understanding of the service organization's disaster recovery and business continuity planning process impact the quality and reliability of the report, and how are these processes evaluated and tested?
   
   

3. How does the service organization define and implement data protection and privacy policies that align with relevant laws and regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?
   
   

4. How does the service auditor's experience and expertise in performing ISAE 3402 engagements impact the quality and reliability of the report, and what steps are taken to ensure the service auditor has sufficient experience and expertise?
   
   

5. In what ways does the service auditor's understanding of the service organization's third-party vendors and service providers impact the quality and reliability of the report, and how are these vendors and providers evaluated and tested?
   
   

6. In what ways does the service auditor's understanding of the service organization's industry and regulatory environment impact the quality and reliability of the report, and how is this understanding maintained and updated?
   
   

7. How does the service auditor's evaluation of the service organization's information system and related business processes impact the quality and reliability of the report, and what factors are considered in this evaluation?
   
   

8. How does the organization ensure that its system is aligned with other assurance initiatives and frameworks, such as SOX, SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, to avoid duplication of efforts and maximize the benefits of assurance?
   
   

9. In what ways does the service auditor's understanding of the service organization's data management and storage practices impact the quality and reliability of the report, and how are these practices evaluated and tested?
   
   

10. How does the service auditor's evaluation of the service organization's incident response and management process impact the quality and reliability of the report, and what factors are considered in this evaluation?
    
    


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 ISAE 3402 book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step ISAE 3402 Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 ISAE 3402 project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: Are there systems for recording and monitoring in order to discover malpractice and fraud in the procurement function/unit?
   
   

2. Change Management Plan: Clearly articulate the overall business benefits of the ISAE 3402 project -why are you doing this now?
   
   

3. Project Charter: What ideas do you have for initial tests of change (PDSA cycles)?
   
   

4. Executing Process Group: After how many days will the lease cost be the same as the purchase cost for the equipment?
   
   

5. Planning Process Group: In what way has the ISAE 3402 project come up with innovative measures for problem-solving?
   
   

6. Executing Process Group: Is the program supported by national and/or local organizations?
   
   

7. Team Operating Agreement: Do you prevent individuals from dominating the meeting?
   
   

8. Cost Baseline: Vac -variance at completion, how much over/under budget do you expect to be?
   
   

9. Human Resource Management Plan: Is there an on-going process in place to monitor ISAE 3402 project risks?
   
   

10. Cost Management Plan: Does the schedule include ISAE 3402 project management time and change request analysis time?


 
Step-by-step and complete ISAE 3402 Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 ISAE 3402 project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 ISAE 3402 project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 project with this in-depth ISAE 3402 Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 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 ISAE 3402 investments work better.

This ISAE 3402 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.