IT Security Risk Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT Security Risk 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 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IT Security Risk improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. Why do so many organizations still fail to adequately assess the third party supplier IT Security risks and ensure the on going security and availability of the business critical information?
   
   

2. Are there any requirements for immediate action from the IT Security personnel for detected failed access attempts, failed login attempts or specific event alerts?
   
   

3. Do you have IT security and confidential usage policies in place that cover the use of all Information Communication Technology devices within your organization?
   
   

4. What happens to your organizations reputation if its customers discover it has set prices too low, or has distributed checks that are too big?
   
   

5. Does your organization have a local emergency or contingency plan to reduce or minimise disruption on activities after a serious incident?
   
   

6. How can social security be designed differently to maximise its contribution to an improved more integrated approach for older people?
   
   

7. What is the name of the process that aligns IT Security with business security to ensure information security is effectively managed?
   
   

8. What is the Social Security Administration doing specifically to improve employee training as it relates to the vulnerabilities?
   
   

9. How do you work with business and IT security peers to create a mutually agreed upon plan that addresses risks from ransomware?
   
   

10. How often does your CISO, CSO or equivalent senior information security executive brief the Board of Directors on cyber risks?
    
    


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 IT Security Risk book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Risk Management Plan: Is the customer willing to commit significant time to the requirements gathering process?
   
   

2. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Are estimates of costs at completion generated in a rational, consistent manner?
   
   

3. Probability and Impact Matrix: Do requirements demand the use of new analysis, design, or testing methods?
   
   

4. Activity Attributes: How difficult will it be to complete specific activities on this IT Security Risk project?
   
   

5. Human Resource Management Plan: Is an industry recognized support tool(s) being used for IT Security Risk project scheduling & tracking?
   
   

6. Duration Estimating Worksheet: When do the individual activities need to start and finish?
   
   

7. Planning Process Group: Have operating capacities been created and/or reinforced in partners?
   
   

8. Human Resource Management Plan: Account for the purpose of this IT Security Risk project by describing, at a high-level, what will be done. What is this IT Security Risk project aiming to achieve?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Matrix: Has the need for the IT Security Risk project been properly established?
   
   

10. Lessons Learned: Recommendation: what do you recommend should be done to ensure that others throughout your organization can benefit from what you have learned?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT Security Risk project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IT Security Risk project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 IT Security Risk 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 IT Security Risk 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 IT Security Risk 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 IT Security Risk 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 IT Security Risk project with this in-depth IT Security Risk Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT Security Risk 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 IT Security Risk 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 IT Security Risk investments work better.

This IT Security Risk 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.