NERC CIP Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the NERC CIP 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 NERC CIP improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:

  1. What are the implementation issues associated with using cybersecurity technologies for critical infrastructure protection, including policy issues as privacy and information sharing?

  2. What standards, guidelines, best practices, and tools are other organizations using to understand, measure, and manage risk at the management, operational, and technical levels?

  3. Do you use a secure central repository to store the software after it has been verified to avoid loss of integrity due to uncontrolled post verification handling?

  4. What kinds of arrangements should be considered to support effective partnerships in the areas of emergency management and critical infrastructure protection?

  5. What can the role of sector specific departments and related sector coordinating organizations be in developing and promoting the use of approaches?

  6. Is your organization ready to increase visibility, improve situational awareness, enhance compliance and mature your ICS cybersecurity posture?

  7. How does your organization design a network infrastructure that will connect the wireless network to the wired network securely and reliably?

  8. Is there a need for a new authority to protect specific sensitive information related to emergency management/critical infrastructure?

  9. What do other organizations see as the greatest challenges in improving cybersecurity practices across critical infrastructure?

  10. How have additional requirements for low impact facilities, transient cyber assets, and removable media affected utilities?


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

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Activity Duration Estimates: Is corrective action taken to bring NERC CIP project performance into line with the NERC CIP project plan?

  2. Activity Attributes: What is your organizations history in doing similar activities?

  3. Procurement Management Plan: Have adequate resources been provided by management to ensure NERC CIP project success?

  4. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: What are some important NERC CIP project communications management tools?

  5. Procurement Management Plan: Are enough systems & user personnel assigned to the NERC CIP project?

  6. Roles and Responsibilities: What should you do now to ensure that you are exceeding expectations and excelling in your current position?

  7. Cost Baseline: Should a more thorough impact analysis be conducted?

  8. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Purpose: toward what end is the evaluation being conducted?

  9. Cost Management Plan: What is your organizations history in doing similar tasks?

  10. WBS Dictionary: Are estimates of costs at completion utilized in determining contract funding requirements and reporting them?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 NERC CIP project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 NERC CIP project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 NERC CIP 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 NERC CIP 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 NERC CIP 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 NERC CIP 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 NERC CIP project with this in-depth NERC CIP Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose NERC CIP 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 NERC CIP 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 NERC CIP investments work better.

This NERC CIP 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.