"Security Metrics: Replacing Fear Uncertainty and Doubt"

eBook Name: Security Metrics: Replacing Fear Uncertainty and Doubt
eBook Type: Hacking

Hacking Windows, Linux, Unix

Security Metrics successfully bridges management's quantitative viewpoint with the nuts-and-bolts approach typically taken by security professionals.

It brings together expert solutions drawn from Jaquith's extensive consulting work in the software, aerospace, and financial services industries, including new metrics presented nowhere else.

You'll learn how to

* Replace nonstop crisis response with a systematic approach to security improvement

* Understand the differences between good and bad metrics

* Measure coverage and control, vulnerability management password quality, patch latency, benchmark scoring, and business-adjusted risk

* Quantify the effectiveness of security acquisition, implementation, and other program activities

* Organize, aggregate, and analyze your data to bring out key insights

* Use visualization to understand and communicate security issues more clearly

* Capture valuable data from firewall and antivirus logs, third-party auditor reports, and other resources

* Implement balanced scorecards that present compact, holistic views of organizational security effectiveness