Application Security Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. How do you stay current with evolving threats and vulnerabilities in emerging technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to ensure adequate application security?
   
   

2. What are the key benefits of implementing application security in terms of improved software maintainability and reduced technical debt, and how do these benefits translate to reduced costs and improved application performance?
   
   

3. What are the key benefits of implementing application security in terms of improved security awareness and training for development teams, and how do these benefits translate to improved software security and reduced risk?
   
   

4. In what ways does application security support the development of more secure and reliable third-party software components, and what are the benefits of improved third-party risk management and reduced costs?
   
   

5. What are the essential knowledge areas and skills required for application security professionals to effectively navigate the compliance and regulatory landscape, and how do these vary by industry and region?
   
   

6. How do you handle the cultural and organizational changes required to implement a successful DevSecOps program, and what steps do you take to ensure that security is a core part of the organizational culture?
   
   

7. What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics that application security professionals should focus on to measure their success and impact, and how do these vary based on role and organization?
   
   

8. What are the key differences between application security professionals working in different industries, such as finance, healthcare, or e-commerce, and how do these differences impact career development?
   
   

9. What are some strategies for implementing continuous training and updating of machine learning models in application security, and how do you ensure that the models stay accurate and effective over time?
   
   

10. What are the primary security risks associated with containerization and orchestration in modern applications, and how do you mitigate them using container-specific security controls and best practices?
    
    


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 Application Security book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: Why do you need a good WBS to use Application Security project management software?
   
   

2. Schedule Management Plan: Who is responsible for estimating the activity durations?
   
   

3. Scope Management Plan: What are the risks that could significantly affect the resources needed for the Application Security project?
   
   

4. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Resource providers; who can provide resources to ensure the implementation of the Application Security project?
   
   

5. Probability and Impact Assessment: Does the customer have a solid idea of what is required?
   
   

6. Project Portfolio management: Annually (or more frequently) prioritize the overall Application Security project portfolio?
   
   

7. Quality Management Plan: How does your organization recruit, hire, and retain new employees?
   
   

8. Lessons Learned: How much flexibility is there in the funding (e.g., what authorities does the program manager have to change to the specifics of the funding within the overall funding ceiling)?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Matrix: What are the uncertainties associated with the technology selected for the Application Security project?
   
   

10. Scope Management Plan: Are alternatives safe, functional, constructible, economical, reasonable and sustainable?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Application Security project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Application 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 Application 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 Application Security investments work better.

This Application 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.