Given the current financial climate, cybersecurity budgets may be under review, along with all other expenditures, and, in some cases, on the chopping block. One of the best ways for security leaders ...

When it comes to assessing cybersecurity performance, the truth can be found in the numbers. Here are the essential KPIs to measure, monitor, and improve to ensure highly effective cyber operations.

The U.S. economy relies heavily on the smooth flow of goods through the global supply chain, most of which are transported by ship. The United States Coast Guard (USCG) and Customs and Border ...

SAN JOSE — Gathering metrics to measure the effectiveness of an enterprise security strategy can be a difficult and somewhat imprecise task, but that’s no excuse for not trying, said IT managers at ...

For more than 20 years, since I first became the Michigan CISO in 2002, I have been pondering these two questions. I wrote on this topic in detail in 2018 in "Evaluating Technology and Security ...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report indicating that the implementation of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) by federal agencies remains ...

How do we manage what we can’t measure? One of the cornerstones of the scientific method is measurability: a focus on defining the ways of counting or measuring aspects of reality that we hope will be ...

There’s a clear gap between expectation and reality when it comes to security controls. Despite deploying best-in-class security tools and building capable teams, many organizations discover the truth ...