Cyber Security Metrics And Measures

This document provides guidance on how an organization through the use of metrics identifies the adequacy of in place security controls policies and procedures.

Cyber security metrics and measures. Key performance indicators kpis are an effective way to measure the success of your cybersecurity program and aid in decision making. When it comes to protecting sensitive data preventing data breaches and detecting cyber attacks you need a way to track whether you re meeting your goals. 2 cyber security metrics and measures some terms and then discusses the current state of security metrics focusing on the mea surement of operational security using existing data collected at the information system level. It provides an approach to help management decide where to invest in additional security protection resources or identify and evaluate nonproductive controls.

Measures are quantifiable observable and objective data supporting metrics. The value of metrics cyber metrics facilitate decision making support governance oversight and accountability and improve performance. Operators can use metrics to apply corrective actions and improve performance. Lastly and most importantly your cybersecurity benchmarking should communicate something important about your organization s security to business leaders.

Those readers with experience in cyber security may like to dive deeper into the nist framework 2017 although still in its draft form which expands on the topic by identifying metrics in section 4 to enable the measurement of cyber security. It explains the metric development and implementation process and how it. Rity controls are in compliance with a policy process or procedure. Technical security metrics recovery metrics like backups and non technical metrics like employee security training.

Here s how to ensure your cybersecurity projects pay off. Many experts agree that metrics are probably the most useful data points at our disposal. When done right metrics help enterprises create a stronger security posture by ensuring a control failure does not turn into a security incident. Regulatory financial and organizational factors drive the requirement to measure it security performance.

The cis controls are updated and reviewed in collaboration with international cybersecurity experts from various industries governmental agencies and academic institutions around the world. Cyber security metrics and measures can help organizations i verify that their secu q1. Cis controls v7 measures metrics.