Information Security Standards Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Information Security Standards 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 998 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Information Security Standards improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:


1. What standardized management process is used to coordinate the impact of incidents and other issues affecting your organization caused by errors within the information technology infrastructure?
   
   

2. Do you have policies and standards covering electronic authentication, authorization, and access control of personnel and resources to your information systems, applications and data?
   
   

3. Do you know whether the same standards apply to your subcontractors in relation to your secure information, particularly where subcontractors are operating cloud technology?
   
   

4. Do all the related servers and network elements support access control measures to restrict access to sensitive information or system processes to privileged accounts?
   
   

5. How do the information security management practices of nonprofit organizations align with recommended practices, including information security management standards?
   
   

6. How would an information security manager balance the potentially conflicting requirements of an international organizations security standards and local regulation?
   
   

7. Are the policies, standards or procedures relating to information security published appropriately as to be available for ongoing reference and application by staff?
   
   

8. Are the policies, standards or procedures relating to information security reviewed on a periodic basis to determine if the controls are operating as intended?
   
   

9. Which, if any, approaches, guidelines, frameworks, standards or governing methodologies are driving your security in the application of IIoT devices?
   
   

10. Has a formal contract been executed with the third party vendor requiring the vendor comply with the HIPAA/HITECH Act privacy and security 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 Information Security Standards book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Project Charter: Review the general mission What system will be affected by the improvement efforts?
   
   

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

3. Initiating Process Group: Do you understand the communication expectations for this Information Security Standards project?
   
   

4. Activity Duration Estimates: What is the difference between % Complete and % work?
   
   

5. Communications Management Plan: Do you ask; can you recommend others for you to talk with about this initiative?
   
   

6. Stakeholder Management Plan: Who is accountable for the achievement of the targeted outcome(s) and reports on the progress towards the target?
   
   

7. Activity Attributes: Would you consider either of corresponding activities an outlier?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Management Plan: At what point will the Information Security Standards project be closed and what will be done to formally close the Information Security Standards project?
   
   

9. Quality Management Plan: Have Information Security Standards project management standards and procedures been established and documented?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: Find an example of a contract for information technology services. Analyze the key features of the contract. What type of contract was used and why?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Information Security Standards project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Information Security Standards project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Information Security Standards 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 Information Security Standards 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 Information Security Standards 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 Information Security Standards 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 Information Security Standards project with this in-depth Information Security Standards Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Information Security Standards 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 Information Security Standards 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 Information Security Standards investments work better.

This Information Security Standards 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.