Firewall Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Firewall 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 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Firewall improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. Which linux security control should be used with a personal firewall to provide an additional layer of protection at the application layer, and to permit or deny access to a specific service?
   
   

2. How does ensuring the perception of confidentiality make sure there is a firewall between where the status is stored, how does that fit into the considerations of cloud computing?
   
   

3. Have you ever had the disturbing inspirational feeling of being a network security professional who knows the whole corner of the corner craving switches, firewalls and routers?
   
   

4. Does your firewall solution deliver consistent network security and threat prevention aligned to applications hosted on premises and in virtualized and container environments?
   
   

5. Does the solution require significant changes to firewall rules and port configurations when deployed in environments with multiple network segments or cloud services?
   
   

6. Do you have a vulnerability management process to regularly check for vulnerabilities and patches, along with firewall protection for remote access employee devices?
   
   

7. Do firewall and router configuration standards include a documented list of services, protocols, and ports, including business justification and approval for each?
   
   

8. Does your firewall support Network Edge protection features as IP threat detection, Malicious Software scanning, application scanning, and/or content filtering?
   
   

9. Are system and network environments protected by a firewall or virtual firewall to ensure compliance with legislative, regulatory, and contractual requirements?
   
   

10. Are your networks segregated from one another by firewalls or other mechanisms so that any risk of malicious attack cannot spread from one to another network?
    
    


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 Firewall book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Schedule Management Plan: Is an industry recognized mechanized support tool(s) being used for Firewall project scheduling & tracking?
   
   

2. Probability and Impact Assessment: Management -what contingency plans do you have if the risk becomes a reality?
   
   

3. WBS Dictionary: Are Firewall projected overhead costs in each pool and the associated direct costs used as the basis for establishing interim rates for allocating overhead to contracts?
   
   

4. Human Resource Management Plan: Is there any form of automated support for Issues Management?
   
   

5. Change Request: What type of changes does change control take into account?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: Did anything besides luck make a difference between success and failure?
   
   

7. Issue Log: What help do you and your team need from the stakeholders?
   
   

8. Activity Duration Estimates: Are time, scope, cost, and quality monitored throughout the Firewall project?
   
   

9. Schedule Management Plan: Are all activities captured and do they address all approved work scope in the Firewall project baseline?
   
   

10. Source Selection Criteria: Are there any common areas of weaknesses or deficiencies in the proposals in the competitive range?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Firewall project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Firewall project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Firewall 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 Firewall 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 Firewall investments work better.

This Firewall 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.