Abstract: Various embodiments include software tools that may be used to automate cybersecurity assessments and reviews of IT systems and applications in the context of their operational environments. Various embodiments include a software tool that leverages a project management tool as a foundation and implements and adds to the project management tool extended features, functions, methods, and capabilities that enable the software application to be used in performing and automating cybersecurity assessments and reviews. Various embodiments leverage the use of the project management tool as a foundation on which to build and extend its features and capabilities and methods to produce the end result of a software tool for use in the finance and banking industry. Various embodiments may be useful as a cybersecurity assessment tool for an organization's system and applications, and their operating environments, and the organization's IT projects.

Abstract: An information object allows arbitrary structured or unstructured information to be bundled with instructions for processing. The object is packed into a container with a well defined structure that is processed on a client computer system. The client computer system possesses a runtime environment that processes the information object and allows it to communicate with other applications. The information object is fundamentally different from a file system or other types of container systems in its assignment of context to entries. By applying a context identifier, the runtime system which processes the information object, retrieves selected entries for selected tasks.