NIST Cybersecurity Framework Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 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 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which NIST Cybersecurity Framework improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. What are the core capabilities that a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system should possess to effectively identify, detect, and respond to cybersecurity threats, and how can these capabilities be aligned with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework?
   
   

2. How can the Framework's Identify function be used to identify emerging threats and risks that could impact business continuity, and how can this information be used to update and refine business continuity and disaster recovery plans and procedures?
   
   

3. How can the NIST Framework's Detect function be used to establish a process for monitoring third-party vendors for cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities, and what are the key technologies and tools that can be used to support this function?
   
   

4. What types of collaboration and information sharing should be established with other organizations and stakeholders to improve business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, and how can the Framework's Identify function support this effort?
   
   

5. How does a BIA program determine the maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) and recovery time objective (RTO) for critical business processes and systems, and what impact do these metrics have on incident response and disaster recovery planning?
   
   

6. How can the NIST Cybersecurity Framework be used to develop a comprehensive third-party risk management program that evaluates the cybersecurity risks associated with third-party vendors, and what are the key components of such a program?
   
   

7. What types of continuous monitoring and improvement activities should be implemented to ensure the ongoing effectiveness of a continuity of operations program, and how can the Framework's Identify and Assess functions support this effort?
   
   

8. What role does disaster recovery plan testing and exercise play in a disaster recovery program, and how can organizations use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework's Identify function to develop and implement testing and exercise protocols?
   
   

9. How can the NIST Framework be used to establish a process for evaluating the cybersecurity risks associated with third-party vendors that provide cloud-based services, and what are the key considerations for implementing this process?
   
   

10. What are the key components of a disaster recovery plan maintenance program, and how do they align with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework's Identify function to ensure continuous improvement and updating of the disaster recovery plan?
    
    


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 NIST Cybersecurity Framework book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Schedule Management Plan: Are target dates established for each milestone deliverable?
   
   

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

3. Team Operating Agreement: What is the anticipated procedure (recruitment, solicitation of volunteers, or assignment) for selecting team members?
   
   

4. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the NIST Cybersecurity Framework project management deliverables of each process group?
   
   

5. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its advisory services are appropriately effective and constructive?
   
   

6. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Are all elements of indirect expense identified to overhead cost budgets of NIST Cybersecurity Framework projections?
   
   

7. Probability and Impact Matrix: What is the culture of the market and your organization?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are there checklists created to demine if all quality processes are followed?
   
   

9. Schedule Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler and/or regular dealer?
   
   

10. Quality Management Plan: How relevant is this attribute to this NIST Cybersecurity Framework project or audit?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 NIST Cybersecurity Framework project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 NIST Cybersecurity Framework project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 NIST Cybersecurity Framework 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 NIST Cybersecurity Framework 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 NIST Cybersecurity Framework 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 NIST Cybersecurity Framework 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 NIST Cybersecurity Framework project with this in-depth NIST Cybersecurity Framework Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose NIST Cybersecurity Framework 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 NIST Cybersecurity Framework 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 NIST Cybersecurity Framework investments work better.

This NIST Cybersecurity Framework 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.