Security Operations A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition

By Gerardus Blokdyk

Does your organization have an effective program for monitoring its it security governance controls and associated regulatory risks? Do have any concerns or recommendations regarding how to scale Managed Security Services to organizations of the size and complexity of your organization? Do you isolate your security operations center from the rest of your network? Is the illegal entry into a private computer network a crime in your country? Are new systems, as delivered and installed, in a state consistent with its expected design and operation?

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, 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 Self-Assessment 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 Security Operations investments work better.

This Security Operations All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.

All the tools you need to an in-depth Security Operations Self-Assessment. Featuring 975 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Security Operations improvements can be made.

In using the questions you will be better able to:

- diagnose Security Operations 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 Security Operations and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Security Operations Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Security Operations areas need attention.

Your purchase includes access details to the Security Operations self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:

- The latest quick edition of the book in PDF

- The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard

- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

- In-depth and specific Security Operations Checklists

- Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation

INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: 5STARCooks
• Release date: Sep 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9780655966517

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Security Operations

Complete Self-Assessment Guide

The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Security Operations best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management. The guidance is also based on the professional judgment of the individual collaborators listed in the Acknowledgments.

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About The Art of Service

The Art of Service, Business Process Architects since 2000, is dedicated to helping stakeholders achieve excellence.

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a stakeholders challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.

Unless you’re talking a one-time, single-use project, 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?’

With The Art of Service’s Standard Requirements Self-Assessments, we empower people who can do just that — whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, Business Process Manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CIO etc... —they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better.

Contact us when you need any support with this Self-Assessment and any help with templates, blue-prints and examples of standard documents you might need:

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Included Resources - how to access

Included with your purchase of the book is the Security Operations Self-Assessment Spreadsheet Dashboard which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas and auto-generates insights, graphs, and project RACI planning - all with examples to get you started right away.

How? Simply send an email to

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with this books’ title in the subject to get the Security Operations Self Assessment Tool right away.

You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:

•The latest quick edition of the book in PDF

•The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

•The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...

•Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

•In-depth specific Checklists covering the topic

•Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation

INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT 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.

Get it now- you will be glad you did - do it now, before you forget.

Send an email to [e-mail] with this books’ title in the subject to get the Security Operations Self Assessment Tool right away.

Purpose of this Self-Assessment

This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Security Operations, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.

It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.

The criteria of requirements and elements of Security Operations have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.

In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Security Operations, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.

How to use the Self-Assessment

On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Security Operations initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.

To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.

1 Strongly Disagree

2 Disagree

3 Neutral

4 Agree

5 Strongly Agree

Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:

‘In my belief,

the answer to this question is clearly defined’.

There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;

1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined

2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most Self-Assessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.

A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting your score. Write your score in the space provided.

After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section, compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the Security Operations Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.

Your completed Security Operations Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Security Operations areas need attention.

Security Operations

Scorecard Example

Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:

Security Operations

Scorecard

Your Scores:

BEGINNING OF THE

SELF-ASSESSMENT:

Table of Contents

About The Art of Service7

Included Resources - how to access7

Purpose of this Self-Assessment9

How to use the Self-Assessment10

Security Operations

Scorecard Example12

Security Operations

Scorecard13

BEGINNING OF THE

SELF-ASSESSMENT:14

CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE15

CRITERION #2: DEFINE:27

CRITERION #3: MEASURE:39

CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:49

CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:66

CRITERION #6: CONTROL:84

CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:101

Security Operations and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:146

1.0 Initiating Process Group: Security Operations147

1.1 Project Charter: Security Operations149

1.2 Stakeholder Register: Security Operations151

1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Security Operations152

2.0 Planning Process Group: Security Operations154

2.1 Project Management Plan: Security Operations156

2.2 Scope Management Plan: Security Operations158

2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Security Operations160

2.4 Requirements Documentation: Security Operations162

2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Security Operations164

2.6 Project Scope Statement: Security Operations166

2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Security Operations168

2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Security Operations170

2.9 WBS Dictionary: Security Operations172

2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Security Operations175

2.11 Activity List: Security Operations177

2.12 Activity Attributes: Security Operations179

2.13 Milestone List: Security Operations181

2.14 Network Diagram: Security Operations183

2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Security Operations185

2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Security Operations186

2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Security Operations188

2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Security Operations190

2.19 Project Schedule: Security Operations192

2.20 Cost Management Plan: Security Operations194

2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: Security Operations196

2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: Security Operations198

2.23 Cost Baseline: Security Operations200

2.24 Quality Management Plan: Security Operations202

2.25 Quality Metrics: Security Operations204

2.26 Process Improvement Plan: Security Operations206

2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Security Operations208

2.28 Roles and Responsibilities: Security Operations210

2.29 Human Resource Management Plan: Security Operations212

2.30 Communications Management Plan: Security Operations214

2.31 Risk Management Plan: Security Operations216

2.32 Risk Register: Security Operations218

2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment: Security Operations220

2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix: Security Operations222

2.35 Risk Data Sheet: Security Operations224

2.36 Procurement Management Plan: Security Operations226

2.37 Source Selection Criteria: Security Operations228

2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan: Security Operations230

2.39 Change Management Plan: Security Operations232

3.0 Executing Process Group: Security Operations234

3.1 Team Member Status Report: Security Operations236

3.2 Change Request: Security Operations238

3.3 Change Log: Security Operations240

3.4 Decision Log: Security Operations242

3.5 Quality Audit: Security Operations244

3.6 Team Directory: Security Operations247

3.7 Team Operating Agreement: Security Operations249

3.8 Team Performance Assessment: Security Operations251

3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment: Security Operations253

3.10 Issue Log: Security Operations255

4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Security Operations257

4.1 Project Performance Report: Security Operations259

4.2 Variance Analysis: Security Operations261

4.3 Earned Value Status: Security Operations263

4.4 Risk Audit: Security Operations265