NIST CSF Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the NIST CSF 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 997 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 CSF improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:


1. How would this be addressed for an on site review of the contracted data center and the review of the data center where the data backups are stored?
   
   

2. Does the employee understand your organizations security and risk policies for using buying and using technology, software, or SaaS?
   
   

3. Is this the primary and most complete unprocessed version of the data, to which no irreversible transformations have been applied?
   
   

4. Is a relational database purpose built for a normalized schema and to enforce referential integrity in the database?
   
   

5. Does management have a clear and structured process for the identification, assessment and reporting of risk?
   
   

6. Does your cloud strategy and roadmap sufficiently address governance, security, and compliance requirements?
   
   

7. Does the system security plan provide an overview of the security and privacy requirements for the system?
   
   

8. What is the status of contingency planning for access to the observations, related products, and archives?
   
   

9. What are the formal spaces provided for sharing experiences of innovation related to quality improvement?
   
   

10. Does your organization maintain an up to date inventory of all of your organizations network boundaries?
    
    


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 CSF book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Management Plan: Is the structure for tracking the NIST CSF project schedule well defined and assigned to a specific individual?
   
   

2. Stakeholder Management Plan: Have all documents been archived in a NIST CSF project repository for each release?
   
   

3. Team Member Status Report: Does your organization have the means (staff, money, contract, etc.) to produce or to acquire the product, good, or service?
   
   

4. Quality Management Plan: With the five whys method, the team considers why the issue being explored occurred. do others then take that initial answer and ask why?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Describe the manner in which NIST CSF project deliverables will be formally presented and accepted. Will they be presented at the end of each phase?
   
   

6. Risk Register: Preventative actions - planned actions to reduce the likelihood a risk will occur and/or reduce the seriousness should it occur. What should you do now?
   
   

7. Requirements Documentation: What is the risk associated with cost and schedule?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: Are fixed asset values recorded at historical cost?
   
   

9. Activity Duration Estimates: Are costs that may be needed to account for NIST CSF project risks determined?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Was the expert likely to gain privileged knowledge from his activity which could be advantageous for him in a subsequent competition?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 NIST CSF project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 NIST CSF 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 CSF 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 CSF 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 CSF 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 CSF 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 CSF project with this in-depth NIST CSF Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose NIST CSF 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 CSF 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 CSF investments work better.

This NIST CSF 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.