Proofpoint Toolkit

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



STEP 1: Get your bearings



Start with...




• The latest quick edition of the Proofpoint 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 998 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Proofpoint improvements can be made.



Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:




1. Do email accounts used for secure material access belong to named individuals or a group email account accessed solely by individuals authorised by the head of center to handle secure materials?
   
   

2. How much sensitive data, as intellectual property and employee/customer personally identifiable information, do other organizations believe flows through the email application?
   
   

3. What cybersecurity vulnerabilities currently exist within your organizations email system, network/information system, software applications and endpoints?
   
   

4. Do you only send sensitive information or large amounts of non sensitive personal information by email as an encrypted or password protected attachment?
   
   

5. Does your organization have a policy which provides information on the use of email, as the purpose of using email and procedure for its usage?
   
   

6. Where group email accounts are in place, are regular checks conducted to ensure all authorised individuals in the group still require access?
   
   

7. Can the platform connect with your cloud email provider to block the full spectrum of email attacks, including malware and invoice fraud?
   
   

8. Have you ever logged into another application or website using your email account, sometimes without needing to put in your password?
   
   

9. What is your level of confidence in your employees ability to identify and properly respond to a malicious or fraudulent email?
   
   

10. Does your existing email security products are capable of protecting your organizations against new generation attack vectors?
    
    




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 Proofpoint book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...




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




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




Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:




1. Risk Audit: To what extent should analytical procedures be utilized in the risk-assessment process?
   
   

2. Procurement Audit: Does your organization have an overall procurement strategy and/or policy?
   
   

3. Team Operating Agreement: Reimbursements: how will the team members be reimbursed for expenses and time commitments?
   
   

4. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree can team members frequently and easily communicate with one another?
   
   

5. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: What do people write/say on status/Proofpoint project reports?
   
   

6. Procurement Management Plan: Are the results of quality assurance reviews provided to affected groups & individuals?
   
   

7. Stakeholder Management Plan: What action will be taken once reports have been received?
   
   

8. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree can team members vigorously define the teams purpose in considerations with others who are not part of the functioning team?
   
   

9. Project Schedule: Eliminate unnecessary activities. Are there activities that came from a template or previous Proofpoint project that are not applicable on this phase of this Proofpoint project?
   
   

10. Cost Management Plan: Are the schedule estimates reasonable given the Proofpoint project?




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



1.0 Initiating Process Group:




• 1.1 Proofpoint project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix




2.0 Planning Process Group:




• 2.1 Proofpoint project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

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



In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:




• Diagnose Proofpoint 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 Proofpoint 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 Proofpoint investments work better.



This Proofpoint 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.