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A Guide to Security Metrics

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Description: If increased security funding does indeed become a trend, this will obviously be welcomed by security managers, and it gives reason to hope that greater progress in addressing the threat of security breaches will follow. As with most concerns that achieve high priority status with executives, however, computer security will become a focal point not only for investment, but also scrutiny for return on that investment. Security managers will more than ever before be held accountable for demonstrating effectiveness of their security programs and the value of those programs to the organization. What means will managers use to meet this challenge? Some experts believe that key among these should be security metrics.2 This guide provides a definition of security metrics, explains their value, discusses the difficulties in generating them, and suggests a methodology for building a security metrics program.