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Learn the basics of cybersecurity metrics and why they are increasingly important to organizations.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Why are security metrics important?
- Cybersecurity is hard to measure
- Cybersecurity investment
- Define success for a cybersecurity program
- Cybersecurity program maturity
- The executive mindset
- The business mindset
- The technical leadership mindset
- Defining a risk management objective
- How to use a risk management objective
- Examples of risk management objectives
- Incidents detected internally vs. externally
- Security NPS
- Fixes implemented within SLA
- Apply security metrics
Taught by
Caroline Wong