In marketing, sales, finance, human resources, and many other fields, there are feature-rich real-time platforms that identify trends, pinpoint targeted metrics, and correlate costs and performance. It’s relatively straightforward to demonstrate the effectiveness of an approach, especially when planning during financial downturns.
Security teams lack mature data analytics
CISOs do not yet enjoy the mature data analytics that their colleagues in other fields do. CISOs and security leaders know that the old ways of collecting static performance data and manually answering questionnaires don't work in the hyper-fast-paced world of cybersecurity. Yet for (a perceived) lack of an alternative, they rely on point-in-time assessments, analyses from weeks ago, or subjective abstractions. They know that these attempts deliver placebo management at best - and not a real-time, comprehensive dashboard. Yet they have not had access to a solution that flips the dynamic in their favor.
Time to proactively shape security strategy
A dynamic view into your security programs will help focus on priorities. SeeMetrics offers a consolidated near real-time view of all security tools to help align the organization’s security and business goals, communicate progress, and foster more meaningful collaboration among different departments and stakeholders.
Here's how a consolidated view will help CISOs to catch up with other business divisions that enjoy more organized and mature data insights:
Manage with one consolidated view
Running multiple security programs can duplicate and even conflict with each other. In some cases, it may even prevent timely gap detection rather than improving it.
Seeing all your security program performance in one place enables you to compare performance with cross-contextual analytics. This is exactly where SeeMetrics adds value - by combining different metrics silos into a dashboard that brings all your efforts under a single umbrella for effective comparison and correlation. It allows you to see what changes would make the most impact on overall effectiveness.
SeeMetrics’ Security Program Effectiveness allows CISOs to answer questions such as: Which of my security policies are being enforced? What are the missing indicators? Are there duplicates? Which capabilities can I let go of?”
Improve collaboration with non-technical audiences
Security leaders work hard to keep the threats of a dangerous cyber world at bay. But in today’s world, an equally important element is open communication. End-customers want to know that organizations are doing their best to keep information secure. Regulators are beginning to draft stricter regulations holding organizations (thus CISOs) accountable. By extension, boards want to know how CISOs’ and security leaders’ decisions benefit the organization.
To communicate your security performance and productivity with stakeholders outside your team, you need a simpler, non-technical language these audiences can grasp. This includes KPIs, progress metrics, and success metrics.
“Can you imagine a CEO or the board asking their general council, ‘Well, how much, or what is the quantified legal risk?’ Attorneys usually don't do that - they just tell you, here's the risk and that's it, and the organization takes it at face value. That's where we want to be with security as well.”
In other industries we don’t see the same pressure to prove tool effectiveness versus risks. Until the day such pressures dissolve for CISOs, they will need to present how their tools and programs are set up and how they are actually performing to manage the risk.
SeeMetrics’ Security Program Effectiveness is designed to help CISOs to easily track, measure, and communicate the realities of their security program - whether it’s effectiveness or gaps - in business language that requires no translation.
Streamline cybersecurity needs with budget
For many years enterprise cybersecurity budgets were only growing due to a mindset of always acquiring the best the market had to offer. Today, almost every organization is facing budget pressures. “Security chiefs will likely be told to do more with less in 2023, as economic uncertainty batters budgets and companies brace for a potential recession,” says Wall Street Journal.
In this environment, it’s all the more important for CISOs and security leaders to rationalize what capabilities their programs are missing, in order to plan their roadmap and consolidate their budget for the following year, aligned with the wider organization’s business objectives.
Using SeeMetrics’ Security Program Effectiveness, CISOs can easily and continuously track the critical gaps and take immediate action to close them e.g., leverage existing tools by extending their use of them.
Consolidate. Correlate. Prioritize. Based on a multi-dimensional view that examines each capability, exposes correlations, and reveals what CISOs truly need.
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