Attack Surface Reduction Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Attack Surface Reduction 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 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Attack Surface Reduction improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:

  1. Do you consider that training on standards related to the business continuity, risk and crisis management and other relevant standards may be useful in this situation?

  2. Has detailed analysis been performed regarding backing up the server, frequency of backups, recovery from a backup, and off site storage of backup files?

  3. What type of system threat occurs when an attacker exploits a software vulnerability to gain unauthorized access and execute arbitrary code on a system?

  4. Does the policy establish how extraordinary access requests to the records by personnel within your organization are to be authorised and managed?

  5. Does your organization want to increase throughput by a certain percentage or respond to customers increasing demand for customized solutions?

  6. Is there a procedure to follow for the first person or group to be affected by the event to contact the appropriate organization officials?

  7. Which type of security control focuses on preventing unauthorized access by enforcing user identification and authentication?

  8. Who are all the possible stakeholders and users involved or related to the data activity or use of the metrics or measures?

  9. Have access controls been established to provide and record authorised access to records and prevent unauthorized access?

  10. Have the resource requirements for records maintenance been identified for disaster contingency management and recovery?


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 Attack Surface Reduction book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

  • 62 step-by-step Attack Surface Reduction Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Attack Surface Reduction project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Human Resource Management Plan: Does all Attack Surface Reduction project documentation reside in a common repository for easy access?

  2. Assumption and Constraint Log: Are funding and staffing resource estimates sufficiently detailed and documented for use in planning and tracking the Attack Surface Reduction project?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Elements of scope management that deal with concept development ?

  4. Closing Process Group: Does the close educate others to improve performance?

  5. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree are sub-teams possible or necessary?

  6. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: How do you manage remotely to staff in other Divisions?

  7. Formal Acceptance: General estimate of the costs and times to complete the Attack Surface Reduction project?

  8. Issue Log: Are the stakeholders getting the information they need, are they consulted, are concerns addressed?

  9. Procurement Management Plan: Is pert / critical path or equivalent methodology being used?

  10. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are software metrics formally captured, analyzed and used as a basis for other Attack Surface Reduction project estimates?

 
Step-by-step and complete Attack Surface Reduction Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Attack Surface Reduction project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Attack Surface Reduction project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Attack Surface Reduction 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 Attack Surface Reduction 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 Attack Surface Reduction 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 Attack Surface Reduction 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 Attack Surface Reduction project with this in-depth Attack Surface Reduction Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Attack Surface Reduction 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 Attack Surface Reduction 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 Attack Surface Reduction investments work better.

This Attack Surface Reduction 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.