Aanchal Gupta

Aanchal Gupta, Skype, CISO

With Security Metrics, Every Picture Tells A Story

  • Tracking externally reported incidents will help you determine whether your security preparedness is trending in the right direction.
  • Don’t try to tell the whole story verbally. A data-rich trend graph can be much more compelling and convincing than any speech.

“Right away you get four follow up meeting invitations from the engineering managers: ‘Can you walk my team through why we are red and how we can get to green?’”

Aanchal Gupta empathizes with C-suite executives’ need to get to the point of any discussion. As chief information security officer (CISO) for Skype and Skype for Business, she appreciates terseness from her own team.

This is an excerpt from EMEA – Using Security Metrics to Drive Action. The eBook was generously sponsored by Tenable.

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