NIS2 Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical NIS2 Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any NIS2 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 NIS2 specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the NIS2 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which NIS2 improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Does the third party risk management program include an assigned individual or group responsible for capturing, maintaining, and tracking subcontractor Information Security, Privacy, or other issues?
   
   

2. Is there a disregard for internal control over misappropriation of assets by overriding existing controls or by failing to take appropriate remedial action on known deficiencies in internal control?
   
   

3. Does your authority follow lifecycle planning principles which are used to review the level of funding and which will help support investment decisions including long term investment in your assets?
   
   

4. How does your organization verify that access controls implemented on host, application and network infrastructures match the business intent specified by your organizations access control policies?
   
   

5. Are your risk, control and compliance resources and capabilities residing in the right function and location to minimize the cost while maximizing compliance, scalability, agility and transparency?
   
   

6. Does your organization ensure that business impact assessment, business continuity and Disaster Recovery plans are produced for all mission critical information, applications, systems and networks?
   
   

7. Have you implemented robust technical and metadata specifications, and digitization and quality assurance processes to ensure full and accurate digitized images of the originals are being captured?
   
   

8. How likely is your organization to discover, identify and respond to unknown, unmanaged or insecure devices attempting to access, accessing or operating within your network or cloud infrastructure?
   
   

9. Do you determine a total cost of ownership for your facility assets, including original purchase and installation costs, repairs and preventive maintenance, and track asset depreciation over time?
   
   

10. What alternatives to your organizations regular way of doing business have been developed to ensure the resiliency of its most critical data, systems, business functions, services and processes?
    
    


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 NIS2 book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your NIS2 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 NIS2 Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which NIS2 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 NIS2 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 NIS2 projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step NIS2 Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 NIS2 project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Quality Management Plan: How do senior leaders create an environment that encourages learning and innovation?
   
   

2. Executing Process Group: What are the NIS2 project management deliverables of each process group?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: What areas does the group agree are the biggest success on the NIS2 project?
   
   

4. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are there checklists created to demine if all quality processes are followed?
   
   

5. Activity Duration Estimates: How could you use each technique in your organization?
   
   

6. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Are there any drawbacks to using a responsibility assignment matrix?
   
   

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

8. Risk Management Plan: Risks should be identified during which phase of NIS2 project management life cycle?
   
   

9. Human Resource Management Plan: Is the NIS2 project schedule available for all NIS2 project team members to review?
   
   

10. Activity Cost Estimates: Who & what determines the need for contracted services?


 
Step-by-step and complete NIS2 Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 NIS2 project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 NIS2 project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 NIS2 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 NIS2 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 NIS2 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 NIS2 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 NIS2 project with this in-depth NIS2 Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose NIS2 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 NIS2 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 NIS2 investments work better.

This NIS2 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.