2024 Recap: Seven Lessons We Learned from Customers About Managing Risk
And Why 2025 Presents the Biggest Opportunity Yet to Improve Prioritization
Security leaders and teams are facing a proliferation of solutions that claim to improve cybersecurity risk management. And yet, the industry is still asking—why do organizations continue to be so exposed? Something is not working.
The problem is not just one missing tool; it’s the way the entire security organization is being managed – through outdated, manual, and disconnected approaches.
Over the past year, we've learned from our customers and our community, seven key lessons about the limitations of current risk management practices. These insights have shaped our belief that 2025 is the year for organizations to adopt a more dynamic and impactful approach.
Lessons learned
- Managing risk manually wastes resources and time. Teams spend too many days and weeks in planning meetings just to gather the relevant data. It often takes 5-7 meetings, consulting with multiple stakeholders, and pulling data from disparate tools—all this time and effort applied—only to produce results that are often outdated by the time they’re finalized.
- Translating cybersecurity risk to the board remains an unresolved challenge. While there are many theoretic methodologies and “Top 10 Metrics” lists out there, there is no simple, actionable, practical way to implement them and convey the big picture to non-technical stakeholders.
- The "more tools mean more security" mindset needs to change. Siloed tools generate siloed data, making it impossible to create a unified picture of risk. More tools often mean more complexity, not better outcomes.
- Without a centralized platform, a comprehensive grasp of risk is almost impossible. Disparate workstreams and disconnected tools prevent teams from connecting the dots. Without a unified dashboard, high-level risk assessments and operational workflows remain misaligned.
- Risk does NOT have to be a data mess. As organizations struggle to aggregate and normalize massive and constantly changing information from many different tools, there occur inevitable gaps in analysis, which derails decision-making.
- Risk is still prioritized reactively. Without context to connect vulnerabilities to business-critical assets or users, teams often focus on the wrong risks first. Reactive prioritization increases exposure.
- Cybersecurity risk is too detached from business impact. Security metrics often fail to align with business-driven KPIs. Without historical context or actionable insights, organizations struggle to track progress meaningfully or communicate risk in business terms.
Looking Ahead
It is time to transform risk management from a fragmented challenge into a streamlined, strategic advantage. SeeMetrics is committed to delivering solutions that unify data, enable dynamic prioritization, and connect security to business outcomes in the most meaningful way yet.
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