Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

Security Metrics is a comprehensive guide to defining and creating security metrics in Internet-connected businesses. The book shows readers current best practices in analyzing security effectiveness as used by author Andrew Jaquith and other practitioners from leading companies. The book bridges the quantitative viewpoint of security analysis demanded by management and the nuts-and-bolts one typically held by security professionals. The book introduces the analytical methods and technique used to create security metrics, complete with numerous sample charts and graphics, and includes case studies from practitioners that demonstrate how to put metrics to work. Real-world examples illustrate how important metrics can be to a company. Security professionals will learn how to develop metrics on their own and have a much better idea of how effective their current security setup is and what they need to implement to increase this effectiveness.