Tools CIOs Can Use
Incidents and resilience
The last outage review blamed a person, and the same failure came back.
Run reviews that find causes instead of culprits, keep a risk register with honest probabilities, and check the recovery plan before it is needed.
Downloads
Files you keep and edit: PDF, Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Most show part of the file before you ask for it.
- TemplateBlameless Post-Mortem TemplateA post-incident review template with a timeline, systemic contributing factors, owned action items and a facilitation guide.
- RegisterCalibrated Risk RegisterA risk register that scores each risk as a probability and a dollar impact, with expected value calculated.
- Exercise kitRansomware Tabletop Exercise KitA three-hour ransomware tabletop exercise: facilitator guide, roles, eight timed injects with questions, a decision log and an after-action report.
Online tools
Fill in the page and get the result on screen. No account needed.
- CalculatorIncident Downtime Cost CalculatorCalculate the true cost of outages to justify reliability and SRE investments.
- ChecklistBusiness Continuity & DR ChecklistVerify that your BC/DR plans are complete, tested, and current.
- ChecklistRansomware Preparedness ChecklistVerify readiness to prevent, detect, and respond to ransomware attacks.
Part of the job Secure and comply.
Other sets
- Management consulting tools for CIOs
- Deciding where AI goes
- Cutting cloud and SaaS spend
- Governing the AI already in use
- Buying AI: vendors and models
- Buying technology without regret
- AI regulation and risk
- Architecture decisions that hold up
- Technical debt you can show the CFO
- Security platform evaluations
- Running IT like an investment portfolio
- Org design and decision rights
- The first 100 days as a CIO
- Board and budget season