Steven Parker

Steven Parker, The Advisory Board Company, Senior Director, Information Security, Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Security Metrics- The More You Know, the More You Grow

  • A solid, standardized framework will answer many questions about how secure you are, but tracking the right metrics will drive your understanding deeper.
  • Your basic message to executives should be that secure systems are what make it possible to continue growing the business.

“What we want to show is that we have controls in place and are managing that access, regardless of who is coming into our environment.”

Before joining The Advisory Board Company last year, Steven Parker was the top information security officer at Arise Virtual Solutions. As a contact call center, Arise does everything from providing technical support to opening consumer loan applications. As such, it collects and guards a great deal of personal information.

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