Roy Mellinger: Security Metrics- It’s a Composite Image
Before your metrics monitoring can even begin, you must first decide the IT security priorities for your organization. The information security metrics that senior leaders tend to cherish most are those that show them how their business stacks up against their...
Scott Singer: Present Security Metrics Using Risk-Based Language
In many cases, board and CEO presentations focus on particular issues they must address or decisions they need to make. To make a decision, the board needs security information in the context of risk, risk mitigation, and costs associated with eliminating that kind of...
Trevor Hawthorn: Security Metrics Need Validation and Context
To work in the boardroom, metrics must encapsulate the business’ security posture, and that’s not always so easy to do. The best way to validate your security metrics is through third-party risk assessment and penetration testing. "Just looking at these vulnerability...
Genady Vishnevetsky: Security Metrics Are About Illustrating Criticality vs Risk
Metrics are useful for gathering information about vulnerabilities, but until those metrics are distilled into something the CEO understands, they’re nothing more than numbers. Stay away from large, raw metrics. Instead, present security and vulnerabilities as a scale...
Andrew Storms: Define Security Metrics That Are Valuable Across the C-Suite
Focusing on metrics just to have metrics won’t help keep an organization secure. Instead, the focus should be on metrics that are specific to the company. Focus on metrics that you can track and improve consistently over time rather than focusing on whatever metrics...
Chris Mark: Security Metrics Make Sense Only in the Context of Risk
The question of ‘how secure are we’ can only be answered in the context of identified risk. When we talk about security, we aren’t talking about objective, probabilistic events. "As important as compliance is, being compliant does not equate to being secure." Security...
Jake Kouns: To Be Thorough, Include Vendor Security Metrics
With companies depending more and more on outsourced software products, cloud-based services, and partner relationships, those connections become potential vulnerabilities. CEOs need to understand vendor and product risks from a business decision-making perspective....
Robin “Montana” Williams: A Strategic Approach to Understanding and Measuring Cybersecurity Risk
To determine which security metrics are important to measure, you must first understand your risks and define goals for addressing them. The human aspect of cybersecurity risk management, including awareness training and policy compliance, is especially important to...
Daniel Riedel: Security Metrics Help CEOs Balance the Cost of Loss Against the Cost of Protection
Risk–cost awareness provides guidance on how to allocate resources to secure the enterprise infrastructure. With risk–cost awareness, it’s possible to communicate security metrics to the CEO or board in terms that enable them to make the necessary financial decisions....
Charles Tholen: Security Metrics Need to Show That Things Are Getting Done
Metrics that are most useful to the CEO relate to how far along the program is in achieving its goals. Security is more than just an operational cost. It’s also increasingly becoming a business enabler. "The CEO wants to know whether a process is or is not implemented...
