Too many tools. Too little visibility.

In the unforgiving world of cybersecurity, CISOs and security leaders must take the pulse of their stack on an ongoing basis. Sometimes a missing or an out-of-date capability (among hundreds of functioning ones) can be the source of vulnerability against an organization -- what some describe as a “silent failure,” a security function that doesn’t work unbeknownst to anyone in the organization.

In today’s challenging world of business, while security tools are evolving, the budgets are tightening. This means that on the one hand, CISOs are expected to show value, efficiency, and impact, yet on the other hand, they are expected to do more with what they have.

To deliver on what’s expected of them, CISOs must be able to communicate with different stakeholders in different contexts about how security is aligned with the business goals.

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“We should be using 80% of the capability of a product to justify a continued relationship… if we can’t, we need to understand why.”

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Until now, CISOs have relied on static questionnaires, surveys, and manually generated reports, which at best offer a limited snapshot of the bigger picture.

The disconnect lies in the fact that in cybersecurity, certainty exists only in real time. And trends are meaningful only if they are relevant for today’s decisions. That’s why many security leaders are spending more trying to understand their posture, than proactively shaping it.

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Know what you have, to know what you need.

Our Security Stack Management feature provides CISOs and security leaders with an automatically generated, real-time view of how well-protected their organization is, how well-utilized their security stack is, and how their security tools have been performing over time - all based on measurable baselines and quantifiable KPIs/KRIs.

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With Security Stack Management, CISOs benefit from:

• A map of stack capabilities – a visualization of the capabilities they have, which ones they are using, which ones they are missing, and which ones they no longer need.
• Stack rationalization – the ability to rationalize which tools you need and which you can consolidate based on stack-derived data, allowing security leaders to effectively curb excess spend, justify budget decisions, and track improvement over time.
• Security and business alignment – Did you meet your KPI? If not, why? This can easily be shared with non-technical audiences allowing for better planning, and better alignment with the company's business objectives.

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Today’s security teams grapple with overwhelmingly complex stacks with far too many tools.

There is too much dynamic information coming from too many solutions, rendering cyber security performance management almost unmanageable. Security leaders are expected to make decisions without a real understanding of how the performance of their tools correlate with their level of protection and efficiency.

Measuring progress, identifying trends, and distilling insights with manually-created spreadsheets or static one-dimensional reports is time-consuming and impractical.

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The snowballing situation has made consolidation tempting, but left CISOs unable to answer key questions in real time.

CISOs need to be able to see, track, and measure the performance of their tools in real-time to be proactive, efficient, and data-driven about the coverage their company needs and the budget required to achieve the KPIs.

SeeMetrics’ Security Stack Performance provides an automated, real-time view into stack performance. It’s part of SeeMetrics cybersecurity performance management platform (CPM), an emerging category in the Hype Cycle for Cyber Risk Management 2022. SeeMetrics is a sample vendor in this crucial category.