Cybersecurity Audit Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:


1. Is there a process to ensure and assure that cybersecurity and information risk is built into the design, development and deployment of new systems and services?
   
   

2. Are there any legal requirements or limitations that an employer needs to be aware of when monitoring its employees social media use in your jurisdiction?
   
   

3. Is there a process for ongoing improvement and development for cybersecurity and information risk through the lifecycle and management of the contract?
   
   

4. Is your organizations competitive intelligence focused on the vital signs affecting the validity of the critical assumptions underlying the strategy?
   
   

5. Which patterns can the security analyst use to search the web server logs for evidence of exploitation of that particular vulnerability?
   
   

6. How does an EMM ensure that account management efforts are applied in an efficient manner, leveraging automation where at all possible?
   
   

7. Are the governance arrangements for managing cyber and information risk based on the importance of data and criticality of services?
   
   

8. When planning and deciding on new services is there clear guidance on how cyber and information security should be assessed?
   
   

9. Which antivirus protection feature uses the first several packets of file to determine if the file contains malicious code?
   
   

10. What monitoring, alerting, detecting, and auditing tools are in place to identify potential threats to your infrastructure?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Planning Process Group: In what way has the Cybersecurity Audit project come up with innovative measures for problem-solving?
   
   

2. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its Governance system is appropriately effective and constructive?
   
   

3. Requirements Management Plan: Which hardware or software, related to, or as outcome of the Cybersecurity Audit project is new to your organization?
   
   

4. Procurement Audit: Does your organization maintain a current file of vendors and vendor catalogues?
   
   

5. Planning Process Group: Is the pace of implementing the products of the program ensuring the completeness of the results of the Cybersecurity Audit project?
   
   

6. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its research funding systems are appropriately effective and constructive in enabling quality research outcomes?
   
   

7. Cost Management Plan: Are Cybersecurity Audit project team members involved in detailed estimating and scheduling?
   
   

8. Requirements Management Plan: Is stakeholder risk tolerance an important factor for the requirements process in this Cybersecurity Audit project?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Are advance payments to employees properly authorized and controlled?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Has your organization examined in detail the definition of performance?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cybersecurity Audit project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cybersecurity Audit project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Cybersecurity Audit 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 Cybersecurity Audit 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 Cybersecurity Audit 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 Cybersecurity Audit 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 Cybersecurity Audit project with this in-depth Cybersecurity Audit Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cybersecurity Audit 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 Cybersecurity Audit 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 Cybersecurity Audit investments work better.

This Cybersecurity Audit 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.