Cyber Recovery Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Cyber Recovery 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 976 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cyber Recovery improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 976 standard requirements:


1. What types of cybersecurity policies, plans, and/or protocols does your organization have in place for the control system network to detect, respond to, and/or recover from a cyber incident?
   
   

2. Has your organization reviewed your people, process and technology with a specific focus on ransomware and destructive cyberattacks to understand where your response and recovery gaps exist?
   
   

3. Are your current storage, management, backup and recovery capabilities keeping pace with your organizations growing supply of data, and are future capabilities appropriately planned?
   
   

4. What additional tools could be useful to analyse the effectiveness of cyber incident response and recovery activities and the severity, impact and root cause of cyber incidents?
   
   

5. Does your organization have a basic set of cyber resilience plans in place, including business continuity, communications, Disaster Recovery and incident response plans?
   
   

6. How would you rate your organizations ability to recover from an outage or cyber incident that impacts an application or continuous business and/or service availability?
   
   

7. How long will it take your organization to recover and to be fully up and running again after a system failure, a cyberattack, a human error or a natural disaster?
   
   

8. Does the board know how management has performed in recent tabletop exercises simulating Cybersecurity incidents - and has the board participated in any exercises?
   
   

9. How confident is your board/executive leadership in your organizational ability to recover critical data and business applications in the event of a cyberattack?
   
   

10. What types of cybersecurity policies, plans, and/or protocols does your organization have in place to detect, respond to, and/or recover from a cyber incident?
    
    


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 Cyber Recovery book in PDF containing 976 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Stakeholder Management Plan: At what point will the Cyber Recovery project be closed and what will be done to formally close the Cyber Recovery project?
   
   

2. Procurement Management Plan: Are issues raised, assessed, actioned, and resolved in a timely and efficient manner?
   
   

3. Variance Analysis: Are there changes in the overhead pool and/or organization structures?
   
   

4. Cost Estimating Worksheet: Does the Cyber Recovery project provide innovative ways for stakeholders to overcome obstacles or deliver better outcomes?
   
   

5. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its processes for managing severance are appropriately effective, constructive and fair?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Who is verifying the performance of the contract and approving payments?
   
   

7. Scope Management Plan: Is there a Cyber Recovery project organization chart showing the reporting relationships and responsibilities for each position?
   
   

8. Cost Management Plan: Will the earned value reporting interface between time and cost management?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Was all the key documentation given to the contracting authority?
   
   

10. Variance Analysis: How are material, labor, and overhead variances calculated and recorded?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cyber Recovery project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cyber Recovery project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Cyber Recovery 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 Cyber Recovery 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 Cyber Recovery 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 Cyber Recovery 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 Cyber Recovery project with this in-depth Cyber Recovery Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cyber Recovery 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 Cyber Recovery 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 Cyber Recovery investments work better.

This Cyber Recovery 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.