A CyTRAP Labs toolkit

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This section provides you with some information about our tools including but not limited to checklists for improving information security, risk management and compliance in your enterprise.
Our toolkit that consists over several scoreboards, checklists and so on follows a “comply-or-explain” approach that should help improve transparency regarding:- compliance,

– risk
– risk causes and indicators
– risk management
– internal controls, and
– risk indicators

thereby leading to better corporate governance

There are an ever growing number of standards, guidelines, checklists, and assessment instruments with which organizations are expected to demonstrate some level of compliance. Unfortunately, firms have been buried in an avalanche of paper requirements that no organization can ever hope to meet effectively.

Our toolkit provides the prioritization of requirements that managers need, instead of leaving them with myriad documents without guidance where one might must start to improve risk management and information security.

CyTRAP Labs checklist rating was developed to be used as a general ranking system for Urs+Nahum’s Security Checklist

Our star rating should provide not a logical but just a convenient path to achieving and maintaining security over the extended time period, particularly for an organization of limited resources.

In line with the typical SME concerns, it is biased towards the action, expediency and urgency of implementation.

The 5‑star rating is subjectively assigned, so that presumably SME executives would know that it is critical first to implement all the 5 star measures, than the 4‑stars, and so on.

Still, it is really up to the executive to decide what is the road to the most effective and speedy implementation, taking into account that SMEs often operate in the survival mode and can allocate only so much time and resources to security. To be on the safe side, always consider security implementation as a life‑long journey with more stars assigned to more urgent steps.

Presumably SME executives would know that it is critical first to implement all the 5 star measures, than the 4 stars, and so on. The users should consider for implementation at their enterprises all the clauses of 3 and higher stars at any of our checklists, without an exception.

In practice it means that although it is meaningless to develop comprehensive security defenses without an overall corporate vision, a typical SME should not just wait several months until expensive consultants develop its security policy and action plan, and only than start the implementation. Although it might appear to be logical and less wasteful, there are many actions that a company should and could implement right away regardless whether it already has approved the comprehensive and holistic security implementation plan.

The ongoing navigation of the checklists we provide and by addressing remaining high-star risks, the corporate management should be able to provide effective security oversight and ensure a ‘shaking low hanging fruits’ approach, thus improving organizational security in the pragmatic and cost effective ways. Moreover, personnel must be encouraged to report up the chain of command all known security and risk problems without the fear of retaliation for doing so.

Toolkits developed by CyTRAP Labs

A toolkit provides an integrated approach to address the various components of compliance, risk management or information exchange regarding network resilience, information security, risk modelling and supports the development of an organization’s management capability. CyTRAP Labs’ toolkits are practical, user-friendly guides to support the organiation in its current and future activities within a particular domain (e.g., alert system, managing risk exposure). Each component contains an overview, step-by-step activities, and tools.

For further information you may also look at:

– compliance the practical way

– CyTRAP Guide – rated compliance and comparative metrics action – FAQ