Module 2: Assessing Where You Are

40 minutes

Module 2: Take Stock Before You Move

You’ve got the map. Now you need to know where you’re standing on it. This module is about honest assessment — not the vendor-questionnaire kind, not the compliance-checkbox kind. The kind where you walk the floor for forty-eight hours, ask a handful of questions that can’t be faked, and come out with a punch list instead of a posture statement.

Three short lessons set the frame, and the module closes with a decision scenario: You Just Took the Job. A Monday-morning call from the CEO, a Series B SaaS company, a former CISO who left no handover. What do you look at first? What do you defer? What do you tell the board on Thursday?

What you’ll walk away with

  • A 48-hour first-look protocol you can run at a new org or on a new team
  • A short list of questions that separate real programs from paper programs
  • Four metrics that mean something — and three that lie
  • Practice making first-week calls where the cost of each one compounds

Time

~40 minutes. Three lessons of reading plus one scenario you can rerun — the branching changes the outcome.