Information Assurance Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Information Assurance 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 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Information Assurance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:


1. Will use to information assurance organization for it takes to explore your site function properly and security executives continues to protect systems to have read and security?
   
   

2. Are cloud solutions too new to trust, or are the concepts and methods mature enough to match or even enhance information assurance planning and practice?
   
   

3. What are the key risks to the successful delivery of the strategy and operation of the business model and how have evolved since the last report?
   
   

4. Why would your organization investing in quantum if, as you believe, its more than a decade before there is a viable return on the investment?
   
   

5. What technologies can reduce the requirements on the numbers of personnel needed to manage and monitor security in large scale systems?
   
   

6. What steps does your organization currently take to assess evaluate manage information assurance risk during application development?
   
   

7. Does your organization currently take account of privacy risks in the context of its overall risk and/or project management process?
   
   

8. What steps does your organization currently take and assess treat manage information assurance risk during application development?
   
   

9. What the critical aspects like to information assurance manager must ensure physical agents capable of identification?
   
   

10. What is the investment trend relationship of information security and quality assurance research to overall research?
    
    


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 Information Assurance book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: When would a milestone chart be used instead of a bar char?
   
   

2. Project Management Plan: Did the planning effort collaborate to develop solutions that integrate expertise, policies, programs, and Information Assurance projects across entities?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: Is there a formal set of procedures supporting Stakeholder Management?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Has the ims content been baselined and is it adequately controlled?
   
   

5. WBS Dictionary: Are the variances between budgeted and actual indirect costs identified and analyzed at the level of assigned responsibility for control (indirect pool, department, etc.)?
   
   

6. Human Resource Management Plan: Have Information Assurance project management standards and procedures been identified / established and documented?
   
   

7. Procurement Audit: Are reports based on sound data available to the already stated responsible for monitoring the performance of contracts?
   
   

8. Quality Management Plan: Does a documented Information Assurance project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Matrix: Risk may be made during which step of risk management?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the typical challenges Information Assurance project teams face during each of the five process groups?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Information Assurance project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Information Assurance project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Information Assurance 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 Information Assurance 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 Information Assurance 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 Information Assurance 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 Information Assurance project with this in-depth Information Assurance Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Information Assurance 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 Information Assurance 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 Information Assurance investments work better.

This Information Assurance 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.