In this blog series on SecurityWeek, Tenable CSO Marcus Ranum advises security professionals on how they can create and share metrics in their jobs. These metrics can create better understanding and awareness about the success of their approaches, as well as allow them to build support for programs and funding requests.
There are many important and useful tools related to the metrics landscape; let's take a look at some of them and how they fit together. For the sake of this discussion, I'll stick with the definition of “metrics” that I offered previously: