Office 365 Security Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Office 365 Security Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. How does the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center assist remote workers in meeting the Industry Standards and Regulations, such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) requirements?
   
   

2. Can you describe how Office 365 Advanced Data Governance helps organizations meet the data retention requirements for electronic health records as mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)?
   
   

3. How does Office 365 Secure Score provide a risk-based approach to security and compliance by identifying and prioritizing security controls based on the vulnerabilities and threats that are most relevant to remote workers?
   
   

4. How does the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center help remote financial services workers meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) requirements for protecting sensitive credit card information?
   
   

5. What are the core capabilities of Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery that enable organizations to identify, collect, and preserve electronically stored information (ESI) for legal proceedings and internal investigations?
   
   

6. Can Office 365 ATP integrated with other Microsoft 365 security tools, such as Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Defender, to provide an additional layer of protection against phishing and spear phishing attacks?
   
   

7. What role does the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center play in supporting the State and Local Government compliance requirements for remote workers, such as the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)?
   
   

8. How does the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center assist remote workers in meeting the Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) requirements for personal data protection?
   
   

9. What features in the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center support the European Union's (EU) Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive requirements for remote workers in critical infrastructure sectors?
   
   

10. How does Office 365 Advanced Data Governance support organizations in meeting the data retention requirements mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the United States?
    
    


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 Office 365 Security book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Office 365 Security Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Office 365 Security project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Closing Process Group: How well did the chosen processes fit the needs of the Office 365 Security project?
   
   

2. Scope Management Plan: Does the title convey to the reader the essence of the Office 365 Security project?
   
   

3. Probability and Impact Assessment: What are the current or emerging trends of culture?
   
   

4. Project Performance Report: To what degree are the tasks requirements reflected in the flow and storage of information?
   
   

5. Network Diagram: How difficult will it be to do specific activities on this Office 365 Security project?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Is confidentiality guaranteed during the whole process?
   
   

7. Assumption and Constraint Log: Is the process working, and people are not executing in compliance of the process?
   
   

8. Variance Analysis: Are all cwbs elements specified for external reporting?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Assessment: Your customers business requirements have suddenly shifted because of a new regulatory statute, what now?
   
   

10. Scope Management Plan: Have adequate procedures been put in place for Office 365 Security project communication and status reporting across Office 365 Security project boundaries (for example interdependent software development among interfacing systems)?


 
Step-by-step and complete Office 365 Security Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Office 365 Security project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Office 365 Security project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security project with this in-depth Office 365 Security Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security 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 Office 365 Security investments work better.

This Office 365 Security 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.