FISMA Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the FISMA 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 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which FISMA improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Has your organization established an identity and access management program that is consistent with requirements, policy, and applicable guidelines and which identifies users and network devices?
   
   

2. What do your findings suggest about how government policies, in general, and NIST support to policies, in particular, might promote information and system security via the greater use of MFA?
   
   

3. Are other major critical infrastructure sectors and companies making similar investments in implementing Cybersecurity procedures and promoting best practices among the employees?
   
   

4. Do you believe privately held critical infrastructure companies have a responsibility to secure themselves and the customers from cyber threats to the maximum extent possible?
   
   

5. Do all critical infrastructure sectors and companies share the same deep knowledge and appreciation of the seriousness of Cybersecurity threats as you and your organization?
   
   

6. Has your organization established an enterprise wide business continuity/Disaster Recovery program that is consistent with requirements, policy, and applicable guidelines?
   
   

7. How specific must security risk information be to enable providers and suppliers to make procurement decisions that adequately protect the networks, customers, and users?
   
   

8. Will the government accept interim secret security clearances on day one of the contract for newly hired personnel until the secret clearance is obtained or finalized?
   
   

9. Which among the various linkages between aid management and other government structures is currently operative and which needs to be restored as a matter of priority?
   
   

10. Do you believe OHS needs additional hiring authorities for cybersecurity workers so it can better compete with other federal departments and with the private sector?
    
    


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 FISMA book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Project Schedule: Your FISMA project management plan results in a FISMA project schedule that is too long. If the FISMA project network diagram cannot change and you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to do?
   
   

2. Assumption and Constraint Log: Was the document/deliverable developed per the appropriate or required standards (for example, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standards)?
   
   

3. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Changes in the direct base to which overhead costs are allocated?
   
   

4. Procurement Audit: Were all interested operators allowed the opportunity to participate?
   
   

5. WBS Dictionary: Are the overhead pools formally and adequately identified?
   
   

6. Probability and Impact Matrix: Is the customer willing to establish rapid communication links with the developer?
   
   

7. Schedule Management Plan: Is pert / critical path or equivalent methodology being used?
   
   

8. Resource Breakdown Structure: What is the purpose of assigning and documenting responsibility?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Does the strategy contain incentives to evaluate the performance of the procurement function/unit?
   
   

10. Procurement Management Plan: Does a documented FISMA project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 FISMA project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 FISMA project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose FISMA 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 FISMA 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 FISMA investments work better.

This FISMA 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.