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3 Metrics to Gauge Cybersecurity Program Health

Imagine the United Nations General Assembly with no translators—and people speaking dozens of different languages. That’s what it can be like when security teams share metrics and data with their organization’s board ...
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Measuring Security Risk vs. Success

Oftentimes, how organizations measure risk determines how they will prioritize investments. For IT professionals, building a set of metrics for security needs is often accompanied by feelings of anxiety, because if measurements ...
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Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Metrics and Decision-Making

We have discussed previously, such as in my May 18, 2020 BlogInfoSec column, some of the more challenging characteristics of data, such as those relating to value and uncertainty, which are generally ...

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Data – Part 2

Having discussed issues relating to the collection and reporting of COVID-19 data in Part 1, we now turn to cyberspace, even though the jury is still out regarding much of the pandemic ...

Are Cybersecurity Intelligence and Security Metrics Statistically Significant?

It is customary to begin an article on cybersecurity with some statement about the exponential growth of threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, etc. I’m no different. It seems like a reasonable, generally accepted thing ...

Security Metrics and Tesla’s Safety Statistics

I have long railed against the inadequacy of popular easy-to-record security metrics. They usually lack critical information about the nature and severity of vulnerabilities and are therefore misleading in providing support for ...