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Download Free IT Project Cost, Benefit and Risk Analysis Templates. This Templates help you to identify and calculate the Return of Investment of any IT Project by analyzing the cost and benefit of the project. This templates available in Microsoft Word and Excel format.

I. How to calculate the Return of Investment (ROI) of IT Project

Step 1: Calculate the Total Costs of Project
Items that should be calculated are:
- Costs of New Proposed Project
- Total Capital Costs (Capital_Cost tab)
- Total Non-Recurring Costs (non_recurring tab)
- Total Recurring Costs (recurring_tab)
- Total Intangible Total Recurring Costs (intangible_costs tab)
- Total Costs of Proposed Project

The thirteen layers of e-security described in The World Bank publication covers both the hardware and software pertaining to network infrastructures. These 13 layers comprise a matrix, which manages the externalities associated with open architecture environments.

1. Risk Management—A broad based framework for managing assets and relevant risks to those assets.

2. Policy Management- A program should control Bank policy and procedural guidelines vis-à-vis employee computer usage.

3. Cyber-Intelligence- Experienced threat and technical intelligence analysis regarding threats, vulnerabilities, incidents, and countermeasure should provide timely and customized reporting to prevent a security incident before it occurs.

4. Access Controls/Authentication—Establish the legitimacy of a node or user before allowing access to requested information. The first line of defense is access controls; these can be divided in to passwords, tokens, biometrics, and public key infrastructure (PKI).

5. Firewalls—Create a system or combination of systems that enforces a boundary between two or more networks.

Download Free FERC-NERC ISO 27002 Policy Map. This document explain how specific policy topic ISO 17799/27001 map to the cyber security requirements of the Mandatory Reliability Standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

This SAS 70 (Statement on Auditing Standards no 70) Compliance Procedure could be used to help you and your company complying against Statement of Auditing Standards. This step by step procedure covering SAS 70 Type I or Type II Field work. For example covering Initial discussion between service auditor and service organization for the purposes of understanding the scope, timing and final deliverables of the audit.

This paper describes the structure of the Microsoft Identity and Access Management Series and gives information on how to access the Tools and Templates which accompany the series.

Fundamental Concepts

This paper describes key concepts, terminology and technologies for identity and access management. Includes common business, technology and security challenges and approaches for overcoming them.

Platform and Infrastructure

This paper describes the common platform requirements and technology infrastructure for identity and access management solutions.

Identity Aggregation and Synchronization

This paper describes the approaches and technologies available for integrating identity stores across a heterogeneous environment.

Password Management

This paper describes the approaches and technologies available for managing passwords and enforcing strong password policy. The paper includes step-by-step implementation guidance for managing intranet passwords, managing extranet passwords and enforcing strong password policy.