CISM Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:


1. What should an information security manager do FIRST when a service provider that stores your organizations confidential customer data experiences a breach in its data center?
   
   

2. Are there documented SOPs for security related activities as configuration management, access management security systems maintenance, event analysis and incident response?
   
   

3. Does the program provide for effective operation, tactical and strategic metrics reporting that provides management with needed information for oversight?
   
   

4. Are responsibilities for information security represented in business managers individual objectives and part of the individual performance rating?
   
   

5. Which should an information security manager do when a recent internal audit reveals a security risk is more severe than previously assessed?
   
   

6. Are there technical standards for the security configuration of individual network, system, application and other technology components?
   
   

7. Have you determined internal and external issues that are relevant to your organization as relevant to information security management?
   
   

8. Does the isp specifically integrate compliance requirements into policies, standards, procedures, operations and success metrics?
   
   

9. Which is most important for an information security manager to communicate to senior management regarding the security program?
   
   

10. Do the programs technical, operational and managerial components align with the components required by regulatory standards?
    
    


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 CISM book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Project Scope Statement: Were key CISM project stakeholders brought into the CISM project Plan?
   
   

2. Change Management Plan: Has an information & communications plan been developed?
   
   

3. Assumption and Constraint Log: Have adequate resources been provided by management to ensure CISM project success?
   
   

4. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Are meaningful indicators identified for use in measuring the status of cost and schedule performance?
   
   

5. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree are the teams goals and objectives clear, simple, and measurable?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Was the suitability of candidates accurately assessed?
   
   

7. Executing Process Group: What is the shortest possible time it will take to complete this CISM project?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: Is there no evidence of any external or superior pressure to reach a specific result?
   
   

9. Team Operating Agreement: Conflict resolution: how will disputes and other conflicts be mediated or resolved?
   
   

10. Work Breakdown Structure: Is the work breakdown structure (wbs) defined and is the scope of the CISM project clear with assigned deliverable owners?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 CISM project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 CISM project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 CISM 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 CISM 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 CISM 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 CISM 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 CISM project with this in-depth CISM Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose CISM 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 CISM 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 CISM investments work better.

This CISM 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.