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Skip the months of confusion and get a clear 'Green Light' for your audit. This high-speed roadmap focuses on the 20% of controls that satisfy 80% of audit requirements: the shortest path from compliance chaos to audit-ready confidence.
Translate elite cybersecurity standards into practical, billable services. This training breaks down the Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover functions into actionable steps that fit the resource constraints of a small team.
Managing third-party risk shouldn't take weeks. This focused guide provides the exact framework and "orchestrated" workflow needed to assess a new vendor’s security posture in a single business day. It includes a streamlined evaluation checklist and a pre-written reporting template that turns complex liability data into clear executive decisions. Perfect for MSPs who need to protect their clients from supply chain attacks without adding significant overhead.
What non-technical leaders need to know about SOC 2: what it is, why customers ask for it, the five Trust Services Criteria, what the audit process looks like, and which decisions require executive involvement. Includes common executive misconceptions and questions to ask your team.
Assess your readiness for a SOC 2 Type I audit. Covers the five Trust Services Criteria, required policies, evidence categories, and the most common gaps auditors flag at the design stage.
A month-by-month preparation timeline for your 12-month SOC 2 Type II audit period. Covers evidence collection, control testing, exception management, and how to work with your auditor throughout the year.
A condensed preparation guide for organizations pursuing an accelerated 3-month SOC 2 Type II coverage period. Covers what to prioritize, what to defer, and how to build a credible evidence set quickly.
Already in an audit and running into exceptions or control failures? This guide covers how to triage findings mid-audit, remediate quickly, document compensating controls, and communicate with your auditor.
A practical guide to NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 covering all 20 control families, high-priority Moderate baseline controls across 8 key families, and a full assessment worksheet for tracking implementation status across the control catalog.
A Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management checklist based on NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1. Covers organizational, mission, and system-level C-SCRM controls; supplier assessment practices; software supply chain controls (SBOM, SCA, code signing); and a C-SCRM maturity self-assessment.
A readiness checklist for CMMC Level 1 (Foundational), covering all 17 practices from FAR 52.204-21 across 6 domains. Includes an implementation evidence tracker, annual self-assessment and SPRS affirmation requirements, and a System Security Plan outline.
A preparation guide for cloud service providers pursuing FedRAMP authorization. Covers impact level selection, authorization pathways (Agency ATO vs JAB P-ATO), and a phase-by-phase checklist across preparation, documentation, assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring.
A compliance checklist for the FTC Safeguards Rule (GLBA) covering all 9 required program elements: Qualified Individual designation, risk assessment, safeguards implementation, testing, training, service provider oversight, program currency, incident response plan, and board reporting. Includes the 2023 customer notification requirement.
A reference guide to major U.S. state privacy laws including CCPA/CPRA, Virginia CDPA, Colorado CPA, Connecticut CTDPA, Texas TDPSA, Oregon OCPA, and Illinois BIPA. Covers common requirements, sensitive data obligations, children's data rules, and a compliance program checklist.
A pre-assessment checklist aligned to PCI DSS v4.0. Covers cardholder data environment scoping, network segmentation, required controls by SAQ type, and documentation your QSA will expect.
A practical checklist for auditing your HIPAA Security Rule compliance. Covers all required and addressable implementation specifications, risk analysis documentation, and workforce training requirements.
Prepare for an NCUA cybersecurity examination. Covers the Automated Cybersecurity Evaluation Toolbox (ACET) maturity model, common examiner questions, and the documentation credit unions are expected to maintain.
A practical guide to SEC Regulation S-K Item 106 cybersecurity disclosure requirements. Covers what must be disclosed, how to describe your risk management program, and how to document board oversight without overpromising.
A ready-to-use questionnaire and scoring rubric for conducting quarterly vendor cybersecurity reviews. Covers data handling, access controls, incident history, certifications, and contractual obligations.
Step-by-step guidance for conducting an operational risk assessment. Covers asset inventory, threat identification, likelihood and impact scoring, and risk register documentation.
A structured worksheet for designing and running your own incident response tabletop exercise. Includes scenario templates, role assignments, discussion prompts, and a post-exercise debrief format.
A dual-sided checklist covering both the onboarding and offboarding of employees and contractors. Includes account provisioning, access reviews, equipment tracking, and termination verification steps.
A structured template for building a security investment proposal that leadership will approve. Covers business risk framing, financial impact quantification, prioritized investment options, ROI framing, and success metrics. Designed to lead with business risk, not technical detail.
Practical cybersecurity controls for municipalities, counties, and special districts. Covers governance, access control, patching, email security, backup and recovery, incident response, and vendor management. Includes a table of free and low-cost resources for local government.
Cybersecurity fundamentals for every professional -- regardless of technical background. Covers passwords and MFA, phishing awareness, patching, data backup, network security, incident reporting, and access control with both personal and organizational checklists for each topic.
Know what your policy actually covers before renewal. This checklist walks through coverage triggers, exclusions, sublimits, incident notification requirements, and questions to ask your broker.
A practical checklist for reviewing and auditing your organization's information security policies and procedures. Covers policy inventory, gap identification, review cadence, and documentation standards.
Audit your organization's email security posture. Covers SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration, email filtering controls, phishing simulation practices, and common misconfigurations that leave organizations exposed.
A 4-week fillable workbook (77 pages) that walks you, step by step, through building and launching an online course on using Claude in a small business. Instead of staring at a blank page, you fill in the blanks (interview answers, sample prompts, pricing, lesson outlines, recording notes) as you go, so by the end of week 4 you have an MVP course that's actually live, not just a pile of notes.
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