Excerpted from Measures and Metrics in Corporate Security, by George Campbell, published by the Security Executive Council At a high level, metrics are quantifiable measurements of some aspect of a ...

For years, organizations have relied on traditional security metrics to measure their risk posture. Service-level agreements (SLAs), issue closure rates, and compliance checklists dominate dashboards, ...

According to security trainer Tanya Janca, not all metrics actually matter for cybersecurity and there are some that can have significantly more impact than others. Janca, the founder of training firm ...

Awareness programs are a staple of any good security program, yet they rarely get the resources that they require to accomplish their goal. The reason seems to be, "You get the budget that you deserve ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The metrics that quantify cybersecurity’s contributions to a business’ ...

Want to try an experiment? Part 1: Get yourself a crowd of willing co-experimenters (about 20 to 30) and tell them that you’re going to ask them a trivia question. Tell them you’re going to read the ...

The need for tools to help IT managers assess the effectiveness of their security investments has fueled another industry effort to develop performance measurement metrics. The latest group to take a ...

As we head into 2020 and beyond, cybersecurity will continue to take a larger and larger chunk of enterprise budgets—which means your security programs will come under more scrutiny than ever. The ...