SIS preliminary assessment tools

Practical system assessment tools for organizations

Select only the essential inputs. The tools provide both an executive-friendly summary and technical detail for discussion with IT or development teams.

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Production Readiness Assessment

Initial summary + technical detail

System criticality

This adjusts priority guidance and does not replace a technical review.

Select the current state for each layer, then review the highest-priority gaps.

01Ownership and business impact

System owner, business owner, users and impact of unavailability are explicit.

Partially prepared

02Security, secrets and data

Access, secrets, personal data, dependencies and vulnerability handling are reviewed.

Partially prepared

03Environment and infrastructure

Production isolation, configuration, resource limits and infrastructure records exist.

Partially prepared

04Deployment, change and rollback

Deployment is repeatable; approvals, database changes and rollback have been tested.

Partially prepared

05Performance and capacity

Critical-flow thresholds, load tests and growth assumptions are documented.

Partially prepared

06Logs, metrics and alerts

Impact can be detected before users report it with enough diagnostic context.

Partially prepared

07Backup and recovery

Backup scope, retention, RPO/RTO and restore evidence are confirmed.

Partially prepared

08Support and incident response

Channels, severity, responders, runbooks and communication cadence are agreed.

Partially prepared

Select the current state for each layer, then review the highest-priority gaps.

These tools are designed for early-stage assessment without requiring every detail upfront. If the result shows risk, SIS can help review workflow, data, and system architecture in more detail.