--- name: cyber-resilience-maturity-scorer description: "Scores an organization's cyber resilience across six domains (identity, data, network, applications, operations, governance) on a 1–5 maturity scale aligned to NIST CSF tiers, with per-domain evidence, a weighted composite score, peer benchmarking context, and a prioritized 90-day uplift roadmap. Use when benchmarking organizational cyber resilience, preparing a board-level security posture report, or building a maturity baseline ahead of a security investment cycle." argument-hint: "[org-profile] [domain-evidence]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Cyber Resilience Maturity Scorer ## Purpose Produce a defensible, domain-by-domain cyber resilience maturity assessment scored on a 1–5 scale mapped to NIST CSF implementation tiers — surfacing the specific gaps, the weighted composite score, and the highest-leverage uplift actions a CISO can take to the board with confidence. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Benchmark or score organizational cyber resilience or security maturity - Establish a maturity baseline before a security budget or investment cycle - Prepare a board-level or executive security posture report - Assess readiness against NIST CSF, or translate audit findings into a maturity score - Identify which security domains are dragging down overall resilience - Justify or prioritize security spending with a defensible scoring rationale ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Organization profile**: Industry, employee count, and regulatory regime (e.g., HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, GDPR) - **Domain evidence**: Current state notes for each domain — controls in place, tooling, known gaps (any format; partial is fine) - **Recent incidents or audit findings**: Breaches, near-misses, or external audit results in the last 12–24 months - **Existing frameworks in use**: NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, or none formally adopted - **Crown-jewel assets**: The systems or data whose compromise would be most damaging - **Domain weighting preference**: Equal weighting, or risk-weighted toward specific domains - **Peer comparison target**: Industry peer group or threat profile to benchmark against If domain evidence is sparse for any area, score conservatively, mark the domain as "evidence-limited," and flag it for assessment. If no weighting is specified, default to risk-weighting toward Identity and Data. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Establish the Maturity Scale Anchor every score to this 1–5 scale, mapped to NIST CSF implementation tiers: - **Level 1 — Partial / Ad Hoc** (CSF Tier 1): Reactive, undocumented, dependent on individuals. No repeatable process. - **Level 2 — Risk-Informed** (CSF Tier 2): Practices approved but not org-wide policy; inconsistent implementation; limited threat awareness. - **Level 3 — Repeatable / Defined** (CSF Tier 3): Formal policies, consistent execution, documented procedures, regular review. - **Level 4 — Adaptive / Managed** (CSF Tier 4): Quantitatively measured, metrics-driven, integrated with enterprise risk management. - **Level 5 — Optimizing** (beyond CSF Tier 4): Continuous improvement, automated response, threat-informed adaptation, resilience tested under realistic attack conditions. Scores may use half-points (e.g., 2.5) where a domain straddles two levels. ### Step 2: Score Each of the Six Domains For each domain, assess against its core resilience capabilities, assign a 1–5 score, and cite the specific evidence behind it. **Domain 1 — Identity & Access Management** Assess: MFA coverage, privileged access management, identity lifecycle (joiner/mover/leaver), least-privilege enforcement, service account governance, conditional access. - A score of 3+ requires MFA on all privileged and external-facing access plus a defined access review cycle. **Domain 2 — Data Protection** Assess: data classification, encryption at rest and in transit, DLP, backup integrity and immutability, recovery testing, data retention governance. - A score of 3+ requires tested, immutable backups and a documented, exercised recovery process. **Domain 3 — Network Security** Assess: segmentation, zero-trust progress, egress filtering, perimeter and east-west monitoring, remote access controls, network detection and response. - A score of 3+ requires meaningful segmentation isolating crown-jewel assets, not just a flat perimeter. **Domain 4 — Application Security** Assess: secure SDLC, dependency and vulnerability management, code scanning (SAST/DAST), API security, change management, third-party/component risk. - A score of 3+ requires vulnerability management with defined SLAs by severity and remediation tracking. **Domain 5 — Security Operations** Assess: detection coverage (logging/SIEM), incident response plan maturity, mean time to detect/respond, threat intelligence integration, tabletop exercise frequency, SOC capability. - A score of 3+ requires a documented, tested incident response plan and centralized log collection across critical systems. **Domain 6 — Governance & Resilience** Assess: risk management integration, third-party/supply-chain risk, business continuity and disaster recovery, security awareness, board reporting, regulatory alignment. - A score of 3+ requires a maintained risk register tied to business impact and regular board-level reporting. For each domain, output: 1. **Score (1–5)** with the matching maturity level name 2. **Evidence basis**: 2–3 sentences citing the specific controls or gaps that justify the score 3. **Gap to next level**: The single most important thing missing to reach the next tier 4. **Confidence flag**: High / Moderate / Evidence-limited ### Step 3: Calculate the Composite Score Compute a weighted composite (1–5, one decimal place): - Apply the user's weighting, or default risk-weighting (Identity and Data at higher weight, others equal). - State the weighting used explicitly so the score is reproducible. - Translate the composite into an overall NIST CSF tier characterization and a one-line posture summary (e.g., "Risk-Informed, trending toward Repeatable — strong in Identity, materially exposed in Security Operations"). ### Step 4: Benchmark Against Peers Position the organization relative to its industry and threat profile: - State the typical maturity range for peers in the stated industry and size band. - Identify where this organization leads, matches, or lags the peer baseline. - Flag any domain scoring below 3 that is high-frequency in the relevant threat landscape (e.g., ransomware-exposed organizations with Data or Identity below 3). ### Step 5: Build the 90-Day Uplift Roadmap Rank the highest-leverage actions by impact-to-effort, focused on moving the lowest-scoring, highest-risk domains: - **Days 0–30**: Quick wins that close the most dangerous gaps (typically Identity and Detection controls). - **Days 31–60**: Structural improvements requiring coordination or procurement. - **Days 61–90**: Process maturation and validation (e.g., recovery testing, tabletop exercise, control verification). For each action: the domain it advances, the maturity-level gain it targets, the expected effort (Low/Medium/High), and the resilience outcome it produces. ## Output Format - **Structure**: Executive summary → per-domain scorecard (six domains) → composite score with weighting → peer benchmark → 90-day roadmap - **Length**: 1,100–1,500 words - **Format**: Structured document with a domain scorecard presented as a table (Domain | Score | Level | Confidence | Gap to Next Level), prose for analysis, numbered list for the roadmap - **Sections**: Executive Summary → Maturity Scorecard (table) → Domain Detail → Composite Score & Posture → Peer Benchmark → 90-Day Uplift Roadmap - **Tone**: CISO-to-board — measured, evidence-led, no alarmism, no jargon for its own sake; every claim traceable to evidence ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] All six domains are scored, each with an explicit 1–5 score and matching maturity level name - [ ] Every domain score cites specific evidence — no scores asserted without justification - [ ] Each NIST CSF tier mapping is consistent with the 5-level scale defined in Step 1 - [ ] The composite score states its weighting method and is reproducible from the domain scores - [ ] Evidence-limited domains are flagged, not silently scored as if fully assessed - [ ] The 90-day roadmap prioritizes the lowest-scoring, highest-risk domains first — not an arbitrary order ## Notes - The most common failure mode is scoring inflation: a domain with good tooling but no tested process is a Level 2, not a Level 4. Process maturity and validation — not tool ownership — drives scores of 3 and above. - Identity and Data are the domains most directly tied to ransomware and breach impact; under-scoring elsewhere is recoverable, but gaps here are the ones boards must hear about first. - Reassess every 6–12 months or after any major incident, audit, or infrastructure change to keep the baseline meaningful. - When evidence conflicts (e.g., a strong policy but a recent breach in that domain), weight the incident — demonstrated failure outranks documented intent. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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