Direct Threat Defense: benchmark, track, and analyze annual Performance Metrics and sourcing trends against budget on a monthly basis to demonstrate Continuous Improvement and progress against Strategic Objectives.

More Uses of the Threat Defense Toolkit:


• Ensure that all incidents are recorded and tracked to meet audit and legal requirements.
  
  

• Provide a strategic point of view for threat monitoring and Incident Response operations that can be impacted by new technologies (cloud, mobility, virtualization), and Business Drivers (M and A, new business models).
  
  

• Guide Threat Defense: insider threat Program Analysis and compliance officers.
  
  

• Oversee Threat Defense: next generation tools, Machine Learning, automation and orchestration as key systems to threat detection.
  
  

• Provide Strategic Direction and oversight to the threat and Vulnerability Management team efforts that support Security Operations.
  
  

• Be certain that your operation gathers, monitors, analyzes and reports observed Cyber threat activity as reported by various public, IT product vendors, security researchers and government threat sources.
  
  

• Manage work with the Cyber Intelligence center to develop attack profiles and plausible scenarios, based on credible Threat Intelligence for analysis of identified critical environments.
  
  

• Confirm your design supports Corporate Security Management in providing a comprehensive investigations, Physical Security, Threat Management and workplace Safety Program that contributes to the overall success of your organization.
  
  

• Orchestrate Threat Defense: mastery of methods, sources, tools, and subject matter pertaining to all source Cyber Threat Intelligence collection and analysis.
  
  

• Support internal Vulnerability Scanning and external Penetration Testing activities, using advanced analytic tools to determine emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities.
  
  

• Assure your planning determines the lifecycle of security information and Event Management (SIEM) rules, reports, and dashboards to present actionable threat to Intrusion Analysts by refining existing rule logic.
  
  

• Direct Threat Defense: conduct highly sensitive, complex, and confidential insider threat investigations into incidents of data loss and Intellectual Property theft, technology misuse, and conflict of interest.
  
  

• Identify security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and implements solution to halt Security Incident, future threat and improve security.
  
  

• Establish that your organization develops threat models and associated security architectures/requirements, and design appropriate mitigations.
  
  

• Warrant that your project complies; analysis report are conducted daily, covering the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), end point security, Network Access Control, and Vulnerability Scanners, threat hunt operations.
  
  

• Drive a secure SDLC program with the product and Engineering teams, ensuring Secure coding and Threat Modeling practices are adopted and taking place.
  
  

• Confirm your enterprise ensures integrity and protection of networks, systems, and applications by technical enforcement of organizational Security Policies through performance of formal Risk Assessments, policy and governance, and internal Threat Analysis.
  
  

• Provide Consulting Services to review and improve Cyber Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Security Monitoring, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), forensics, and Incident Response capabilities.
  
  

• Ensure your organization develops and supports technologies pertaining to Network Security as network Firewalls, proxies, and Network Access Control (NAC), remote access, wireless security, anti malware and advanced threat detection/intrusion prevention.
  
  

• Collaborate with technical and Threat Intelligence analysts to provide indications and warnings, and contribute to predictive analysis of malicious activity.
  
  

• Establish that your enterprise coordinates and participates in the planning, tracking, and/or execution of strategic and tactical intelligence operations.
  
  

• Arrange that your design provides informed advice on techniques and innovative methods employed in Threat Analysis and projection.
  
  

• Govern Threat Defense: own threat models and solution blueprints that provide end end architecture for the security use cases of the solution.
  
  

• Develop and implement an intelligence report feedback process to measure reporting impact and alignment.
  
  

• Support the design and implementation of Fusion Center/SOC operating models, identifying, evaluating, and providing solutions to evaluate complex business via a threat based approach.
  
  

• Provide advice on techniques and innovative methods employed in Threat Analysis and projection.
  
  

• Cyber and systems Security Engineering, threat and Risk Assessment as part of a Cyber maturation process that establishes threat surfaces and mitigations to maximize resiliency and address vulnerabilities.
  
  

• Ensure you pioneer; understand Threat Modeling and general Software Development practices, the associated risks, and the components of a modern product security program.
  
  

• Maintain security and perform advanced threat investigation for Enterprise Systems and identify issues that could compromise Data integrity or secrecy.
  
  

• Develop Threat Modeling (threat type, impact, risk rating, counter measures, residual risks, and gap analysis) for in scope products.
  
  

• Identify and report on Cybersecurity status, Cyber defense posture, and compliance.
  
  

• Develop models and analytics to inform executive level Customer Strategy.
  
  


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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Threat Defense 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 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Threat Defense improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. Where can you break convention?
   
   

2. How likely is the current Threat Defense plan to come in on schedule or on budget?
   
   

3. Which Threat Defense impacts are significant?
   
   

4. Are all team members qualified for all tasks?
   
   

5. Are Threat Defense vulnerabilities categorized and prioritized?
   
   

6. What do people want to verify?
   
   

7. How is Threat Defense project cost planned, managed, monitored?
   
   

8. What Internal Processes need improvement?
   
   

9. How are Threat Defense risks managed?
   
   

10. Did you tackle the cause or the symptom?
    
    


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 Threat Defense book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?
   
   

2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?
   
   

3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Threat Defense project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?
   
   

4. Closing Process Group: Did the Threat Defense Project Team have enough people to execute the Threat Defense project plan?
   
   

5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Threat Defense project plan (variances)?
   
   

7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?
   
   

8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?
   
   

10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Threat Defense project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Threat Defense Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Threat Defense 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 Threat Defense 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 Threat Defense 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 Threat Defense 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 Threat Defense project with this in-depth Threat Defense Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Threat Defense 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 Threat Defense 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 Threat Defense investments work better.

This Threat Defense 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.