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Practical tools and guides for Chicago organizations — designed to help you understand your risk, prepare for an assessment, and navigate compliance requirements.
Cybersecurity Essentials Checklist
A plain-language checklist of the security controls every small and mid-sized organization should have in place — covering access management, endpoint protection, backup integrity, firewall configuration, and employee training basics. Use this as a starting point to identify your highest-priority gaps.
Download ChecklistIncident Response Plan Template
A customizable incident response plan template with response team roster, incident classification criteria, step-by-step procedures for ransomware, business email compromise, data breach, and insider threat scenarios, and breach notification obligation guidance for HIPAA and Illinois PIPA.
Download TemplateSecurity Assessment Preparation Guide
What to expect from a security assessment — and how to prepare your team and environment for the assessment process. Covers what we evaluate, what documentation to have ready, how to communicate the assessment to your team, and how to use the findings report.
Download GuideCompliance Readiness Guide
A framework-by-framework overview of what HIPAA, NIST CSF, CMMC, and PCI-DSS compliance actually requires — and what "compliance" looks like in practice for organizations at different maturity levels. Includes a self-assessment worksheet for each framework.
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