Thanks to the enormous strides made in influential tech spheres with Artificial Intelligence and Language Learning Models, technology is advancing faster than ever. However, with these new tools comes an increasing complexity regarding cybersecurity for modern organizations. 

Now more than ever, a company’s cybersecurity measures must be extensive, fortified, cohesive, and capable of providing actionable metrics that serve diverse security roles. In these ways, unified, standardized metrics can drastically improve security governance.

The Challenge of Fragmented Cybersecurity Metrics

The current cybersecurity landscape is a patchwork of tools, each with its own data sets and outputs. This makes gathering efficient amounts of cohesive data or metrics difficult, as each subset features different and often juxtaposed information. 

In addition, there are substantial drawbacks to traditional metrics gathering, such as static spreadsheets or manual data aggregation, in that they leave far too much room for human error or mistakes. Fragmented and flawed metrics such as these hinder alignment across security roles and complicate reporting to executives.

Modern cybersecurity organizations rely on a wide array of tools and are composed of diverse teams with distinct roles and objectives. Although metrics play a crucial role in cybersecurity, making them truly valuable requires vast resources;  90% rely on static spreadsheets, manually fed from dozens of siloed security products, to present measurements and enforce policies. 

This offline process hinders continuous access and visibility to operational data, complicates communication with the board, insurance, and other auditors, and also makes alignment between the various roles very challenging. 

The Importance of Real-Time, Role-Specific Metrics

To solve these problems, there is a need for metrics that can adapt to multiple roles within security teams:

  • CISOs for strategic oversight and board reporting.
  • GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) teams for policy alignment.
  • Vulnerability and incident response teams for operational insights.

Role-specific metrics enable informed decision-making at all levels, uniting security efforts and fortifying a company’s cybersecurity efforts.  

Innovations in Metrics Automation and Security Visibility

SeeMetrics is a company that provides a unified, data-driven platform for CISOs to measure, govern, and mitigate security risks across multiple tools without intermediaries.

The platform enables real-time visibility into security operations, helping align metrics with policies and identify gaps efficiently. SeeMetrics addresses a critical need for simplified, actionable security insights for technical SMEs and high-level strategic decision-makers.

SeeMetrics aggregates, correlates, and normalizes data from all the different products and allows the user to filter the metric easily to meet the relevant need. This is used to quickly identify the gaps and gain a multiplier effect of improvement across the stack. 

All of SeeMetrics’ boards, designed with the out-of-the-box metrics to serve specific measurement needs, are entirely customizable, allowing each user to add or remove metrics as needed, ensuring that the data aligns with the users’ unique security and business needs, along with the narrative they wish to communicate to stakeholders. 

As Shirley Salzman, Co-Founder and CEO of SeeMetrics, surmises, “SeeMetrics is ushering in a new standard of the way metrics are generated and leveraged, improving overall security governance… each can have their board.”

How Standardized Metrics Improve Security Governance

Enabling such concentrated cybersecurity efforts, companies that have teamed with SeeMetrics have achieved holistic visibility into security operations for the first time. This, in turn, reveals process inefficiencies and resource allocation needs, enabling data-driven justification for security investments and further facilitating alignment between different security roles and board-level reporting.

The results, across the board, have included improved decision-making, resource allocation, and much more effective communication.

Setting New Standards for Security Management

Now more than ever, the importance of unified metrics for security visibility and governance cannot be overstated. As technologies evolve at a breakneck pace, equipping hackers and ill-intentioned individuals with more sophisticated methodologies than ever before, the security designed to stop such people must also evolve. 

Fortunately, cohesive metrics can set a new standard for security management across industries and help protect your most sensitive data in a fortified fashion.