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It's not enough to simply state your organization is in compliance with regulations and standards; you must prove it. Unfortunately, compliance reporting requires even more time and budget.

The Metrics Management Toolkit simplifies compliance reporting by bundling the essential building blocks you need to establish and maintain compliance reporting for your organization.

Included in the Metrics Management Toolkit are:

• The Implementing Metrics Management Guide


• A UCF Metrics spreadsheet


• A project work breakdown structure (WBS)


• Standard, policy, and job function implementation templates


• Over 125 pre-defined metrics presentations and templates

Implementing Metrics Management Guide

Implementing Metrics Management is the only guide which arranges metrics administration requirements into a sensible, task-related structure, reducing the time and costs associated with compliance reporting, producing actionable information with far less effort and stress, and helping to ensure organizations properly adhere to all the regulations governing their industry.

Rather than add to the confusion surrounding compliance by creating yet another ancillary metrics guide, Implementing Metrics Management distills the essential metric requirements from hundreds of different laws and contractual obligations. The Unified Compliance Framework, in conjunction with PowerFrameworks and dozens of very smart people from around the world, have developed the first tool that really takes the complexity and guesswork out of compliance metrics management.

“Based on 15 years of experience of putting ideas into practice, this guide provides a holistic approach and sound principles for ‘doing’ security metrics in order to improve your security program.”
— Signe Jackson, CISSP, CISM, Information Security Program Manager  

The UCF Metrics spreadsheet includes all the UCF common controls which specify metrics, the policies surrounding implementing those metrics, and the standards needed to support a proper metrics rollout.

The UCF Metrics Spreadsheet provides cross-referenced controls and objectives from all existing industry standard best practice frameworks and government regulations enable organizations to work within a single framework that meets all their internal compliance and external audit needs. Do you want to know which authority documents have called for specific metrics? The UCF Metrics spreadsheet contains that information -- and we'll ensure that you stay updated on a quarterly basis.

Project Work Breakdown Structure

The Metrics Management project work breakdown structure (WBS) provides a detailed list of tasks required to complete your metrics compliance requirements. The WBS structure document is provided in both graphical and MS Project formats.

Under development for three years, the Metrics Management Toolkit is a complete work breakdown structure that covers all aspects of implementing metrics management from an initial awareness campaign through the necessary policies and standards, plus metrics reporting templates to aid in data presentation. Over one hundred expert field editors participated in the creation of the Metrics Management Toolkit, and it has been evaluated thoroughly by leading metrics consultancies, independent compliance experts, and over fifty enterprises.

“This sums up the whole process of how to use metrics; pick the metrics you want to use, assign responsibility for them, create the policies that address inculcating the gathering of measurement into your procedures…the how-to of all of that is in here.”
— Les Selvarajah, Senior IT Auditor, CISA at Centrelink, Australia

Use the included standard, policy, and job function implementation templates as a baseline for your metrics implemtation program. Every last policy, standard and job function you'll need for implementing metrics management is ready for your approval.

By following the step-by-step formulas in the Metrics Management Toolkit, your organization can easily create a comprehensive and integrated view of your overall compliance position and document the effectiveness and oversight of all compliance efforts.

Use the 120+ pre-defined metrics presentations and templates to complete your compliance reporting requirements. We've also included a PowerPoint plug-in that builds both waterfall and stacked bar charts for you.

Working hand-in-hand, the combined UCF and PowerFrameworks team leveraged each of their best strengths to put together a sensible, easy-to-use approach to creating and maintaining a graphics reporting standard. Working together, the team has ensured that your organization only needs to focus on one of three charting formats (pie, stacked bar and waterfall). We've even created a PowerPoint plug-in that lets you build and edit both stacked bar and waterfall charts within PowerPoint and Excel -- something no other metrics reporting product has done until now!

“This publication will finally shed some light on how to implement metrics management in this world of multiple authority documents and survive afterwards.”
— Vicente Pastor, CISSP