2017 Trends in Security Metrics and Security Assurance Measurement

When discussing security assurance measurement and security metrics with IT security leaders, questions quickly arise. For example, what approaches are security teams taking today in terms of security metrics collection, reporting and usage? Who are security metrics shared with and how often? And most importantly, how effective are current approaches to using security in terms of establishing IT security as a strategic partner to the business?

Tenable commissioned the “2017 Trends in Security Metrics and Security Assurance Measurement” survey of IT security professionals to measure the attitudes, beliefs and perceptions of IT security professionals about security metrics. It was also designed to discover if current approaches to security assurance measurement are meeting the needs of IT security teams, CISOs, business executives and the board.

Read the report to learn:

• How IT security teams today are collecting, reporting and using security metrics
• How IT security leaders use security metrics with business stakeholders to demonstrate business alignment and communicate the value of IT security programs
• What you can do within your own organization to improve security assurance measurement when using security metrics