Gathering data and initial planning
Once the decision is made to move forward with any new IT implementation project, the next step is to answer these four questions:
- What do you need?
- What do you have?
- What changes need to be made to what you have to get what you need?
- How and when are you going to make those changes?
This intentional oversimplification is helpful in understanding the goal of the discovery and preparation phases relative to your unique environment. Remember, you’ve already identified broadly what you want to do. You want to deploy MDE in your environment to improve your security posture. Now, you need to clarify what you need granularly (scope), discover what you have specifically (discovery), and solidify the changes required to close the gap into a plan. Then, of course, you must execute that plan to get what you need out of the project.
Defining scope
This is the what you need (or want) aspect of our simple model mentioned...
