Operational Security Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Operational 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Operational Security improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Do you demonstrate to regulators, stakeholders, shareholders, customers, business partners and auditors that sufficient knowledge, training and awareness has been delivered?
   
   

2. Can the solution correlate privileged user activity with asset vulnerability data and thirdparty intelligence to give you an assessment of threat criticality?
   
   

3. Does your social network site tell you if your information will be shared with other internal departments and personnel of the business of this site?
   
   

4. 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?
   
   

5. Are there records describing the names of authorized personnel, the titles, and a description of the access privileges to the data?
   
   

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

7. Are you losing valuable time behind frequent communication for information sharing and getting clearances/approvals?
   
   

8. Are communities informed or involved in the design and development of policies related to the security/ safety?
   
   

9. Does your organization have up to date policies in place for data protection and for data and cybersecurity?
   
   

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


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 Operational Security book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Initiating Process Group: How well did the chosen processes fit the needs of the Operational Security project?
   
   

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

3. Scope Management Plan: Is there a requirements change management processes in place?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Have stakeholder accountabilities & responsibilities been clearly defined?
   
   

5. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Is the anticipated (firm and potential) business base Operational Security projected in a rational, consistent manner?
   
   

6. Team Member Performance Assessment: Does statute or regulation require the job responsibility?
   
   

7. Procurement Audit: What are your ethical guidelines for public procurement?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Register: What are the major Operational Security project milestones requiring communications or providing communications opportunities?
   
   

9. Lessons Learned: What skills did you need that were missing on this Operational Security project?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Has the expected benefits from realisation of the procurement Operational Security project been calculated?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Operational Security project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational Security project with this in-depth Operational Security Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Operational 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 Operational 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 Operational Security investments work better.

This Operational 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.