Privileged Access Management A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition

By Gerardus Blokdyk

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- In-depth and specific Privileged Access Management Checklists

- Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation

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• Language: English
• Publisher: 5STARCooks
• Release date: Sep 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9780655964650

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Privileged Access Management

Complete Self-Assessment Guide

The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Privileged Access Management 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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•Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation

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Purpose of this Self-Assessment

This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Privileged Access Management, 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 Privileged Access Management 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 Privileged Access Management, 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 Privileged Access Management 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 Privileged Access Management Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.

Your completed Privileged Access Management Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Privileged Access Management areas need attention.

Privileged Access Management

Scorecard Example

Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:

Privileged Access Management

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Your Scores:

BEGINNING OF THE

SELF-ASSESSMENT:

Table of Contents

About The Art of Service13

Included Resources - how to access13

Purpose of this Self-Assessment15

How to use the Self-Assessment16

Privileged Access Management

Scorecard Example18

Privileged Access Management

Scorecard19

BEGINNING OF THE

SELF-ASSESSMENT:20

CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE21

CRITERION #2: DEFINE:32

CRITERION #3: MEASURE:45

CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:52

CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:69

CRITERION #6: CONTROL:81

CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:97

Privileged Access Management and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:142

1.0 Initiating Process Group: Privileged Access Management143

1.1 Project Charter: Privileged Access Management145

1.2 Stakeholder Register: Privileged Access Management147

1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Privileged Access Management148

2.0 Planning Process Group: Privileged Access Management150

2.1 Project Management Plan: Privileged Access Management153

2.2 Scope Management Plan: Privileged Access Management155

2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Privileged Access Management157

2.4 Requirements Documentation: Privileged Access Management159

2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Privileged Access Management161

2.6 Project Scope Statement: Privileged Access Management163

2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Privileged Access Management165

2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Privileged Access Management167

2.9 WBS Dictionary: Privileged Access Management169

2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Privileged Access Management172

2.11 Activity List: Privileged Access Management174

2.12 Activity Attributes: Privileged Access Management176

2.13 Milestone List: Privileged Access Management178

2.14 Network Diagram: Privileged Access Management180

2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Privileged Access Management182

2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Privileged Access Management184

2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Privileged Access Management186

2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Privileged Access Management188

2.19 Project Schedule: Privileged Access Management190

2.20 Cost Management Plan: Privileged Access Management192

2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: Privileged Access Management194

2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: Privileged Access Management196

2.23 Cost Baseline: Privileged Access Management198

2.24 Quality Management Plan: Privileged Access Management200

2.25 Quality Metrics: Privileged Access Management202

2.26 Process Improvement Plan: Privileged Access Management204

2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Privileged Access Management206

2.28 Roles and Responsibilities: Privileged Access Management208

2.29 Human Resource Management Plan: Privileged Access Management210

2.30 Communications Management Plan: Privileged Access Management212

2.31 Risk Management Plan: Privileged Access Management214

2.32 Risk Register: Privileged Access Management216

2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment: Privileged Access Management218

2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix: Privileged Access Management220

2.35 Risk Data Sheet: Privileged Access Management222

2.36 Procurement Management Plan: Privileged Access Management224

2.37 Source Selection Criteria: Privileged Access Management226

2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan: Privileged Access Management228

2.39 Change Management Plan: Privileged Access Management230

3.0 Executing Process Group: Privileged Access Management232

3.1 Team Member Status Report: Privileged Access Management234

3.2 Change Request: Privileged Access Management236

3.3 Change Log: Privileged Access Management238

3.4 Decision Log: Privileged Access Management240

3.5 Quality Audit: Privileged Access Management242

3.6 Team Directory: Privileged Access Management245

3.7 Team Operating Agreement: Privileged Access Management247

3.8 Team Performance Assessment: Privileged Access Management249

3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment: Privileged Access Management251

3.10 Issue Log: Privileged Access Management253

4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Privileged Access Management255

4.1 Project Performance Report: Privileged Access Management257

4.2 Variance Analysis: Privileged Access Management259

4.3 Earned Value Status: Privileged Access Management261

4.4 Risk Audit: Privileged Access Management263

4.5 Contractor Status Report: Privileged Access Management265

4.6 Formal Acceptance: Privileged Access Management267

5.0 Closing Process Group: Privileged Access Management269

5.1 Procurement Audit: Privileged Access Management271

5.2 Contract Close-Out: Privileged Access Management274

5.3 Project or Phase Close-Out: Privileged Access Management276

5.4 Lessons Learned: Privileged Access Management278

Privileged Access Management and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:280

1.0 Initiating Process Group: Privileged Access Management281

1.1 Project Charter: Privileged Access Management283

1.2 Stakeholder Register: Privileged Access Management285

1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Privileged Access Management286

2.0 Planning Process Group: Privileged Access Management288

2.1 Project Management Plan: Privileged Access Management290

2.2 Scope Management Plan: Privileged Access Management292

2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Privileged Access Management294

2.4 Requirements Documentation: Privileged Access Management296

2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Privileged Access Management298

2.6 Project Scope Statement: Privileged Access Management300

2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Privileged Access Management302

2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Privileged Access Management304

2.9 WBS Dictionary: Privileged Access Management306

2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Privileged Access Management308

2.11 Activity List: Privileged Access Management310

2.12 Activity Attributes: Privileged Access Management312

2.13 Milestone List: Privileged Access Management314

2.14 Network Diagram: Privileged Access Management316

2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Privileged Access Management318

2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Privileged Access Management320

2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Privileged Access Management322

2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Privileged Access Management325

2.19 Project Schedule: Privileged Access Management327

2.20 Cost Management Plan: Privileged Access Management329

2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: Privileged Access Management331

2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: Privileged Access Management333

2.23 Cost Baseline: Privileged Access Management335

2.24 Quality Management Plan: Privileged Access Management337

2.25 Quality Metrics: Privileged Access Management339

2.26 Process Improvement Plan: Privileged Access Management341

2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Privileged Access Management343

2.28 Roles and Responsibilities: Privileged Access Management345

2.29 Human Resource Management Plan: Privileged Access Management347

2.30 Communications Management Plan: Privileged Access Management349

2.31 Risk Management Plan: Privileged Access Management351

2.32 Risk Register: Privileged Access Management353

2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment: Privileged Access Management355

2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix: Privileged Access Management357

2.35 Risk Data Sheet: Privileged Access Management359

2.36 Procurement Management Plan: Privileged Access Management361

2.37 Source Selection Criteria: Privileged Access Management363

2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan: Privileged Access Management365

2.39 Change Management Plan: Privileged Access Management367

3.0 Executing Process Group: Privileged Access Management369

3.1 Team Member Status Report: Privileged Access Management371

3.2 Change Request: Privileged Access Management373

3.3 Change Log: Privileged Access Management375

3.4 Decision Log: Privileged Access Management377

3.5 Quality Audit: Privileged Access Management379

3.6 Team Directory: Privileged Access Management382

3.7 Team Operating Agreement: Privileged Access Management384

3.8 Team Performance Assessment: Privileged Access Management386

3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment: Privileged Access Management388

3.10 Issue Log: Privileged Access Management390

4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Privileged Access Management392

4.1 Project Performance Report: Privileged Access Management394

4.2 Variance Analysis: Privileged Access Management396

4.3 Earned Value Status: Privileged Access Management398

4.4 Risk Audit: Privileged Access Management400

4.5 Contractor Status Report: Privileged Access Management402

4.6 Formal Acceptance: Privileged Access Management404

5.0 Closing Process Group: Privileged Access Management406

5.1 Procurement Audit: Privileged Access Management408

5.2 Contract Close-Out: Privileged Access Management410

5.3 Project or Phase Close-Out: Privileged Access Management412

5.4 Lessons Learned: Privileged Access Management414

Index416

CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE

INTENT: Be aware of the need for change. Recognize that there is an unfavorable variation, problem or symptom.

In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:

5