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Measure and improve your cybersecurity posture

Automated security metrics will help you continuously understand your security posture based on accurate evidence, so that you can improve it to help stop preventable breaches. A good security measurement program also allows you to deliver quantifiable insights and tell more compelling cybersecurity stories, supported by near real-time trustworthy data.

Communicate security posture to stakeholders in business language.

Communicate security posture to stakeholders in business language.

Educate business stakeholders and improve accountability for cyber risk within the business.

Educate business stakeholders and improve accountability for cyber risk within the business.

Provide context around security performance, such as how your security posture compares to peer organizations.

Provide context around security performance, such as how your security posture compares to peer organizations.

Understand the root cause of security issues and identify processes that can be improved.

Understand the root cause of security issues and identify processes that can be improved.

Prioritize security remediation based on business risk, allowing you to take the next best action to reduce risk.

Prioritize security remediation based on business risk, allowing you to take the next best action to reduce risk.

The Panaseer security metrics catalog

The Panaseer security metrics catalog

Security metrics are at the core of the Panaseer platform. There are hundreds of out-of-the-box security metrics, with thousands of permutations. An in-platform catalog details all the metrics available to users.

These metrics provide the building blocks for a range of visualizations and dashboards. They provide actionable insight across multiple security domains, including endpoint, vulnerability, patching, IDAM, PAM, cloud configuration, user awareness, AppSec, and inventory. They can be fully configured to your organization’s policies and aligned to a recognized security standards framework.

Users can explore collections – combinations of metrics developed to address specific use cases, such as a new measurement program, ransomware, or cyber insurance.

Types of metrics

Understand your security posture with straightforward counts and sums.

For example, the total number of devices in your organization’s environment.

Track adherence to policies and standards, whether internal or regulatory.

Codify “what good looks like” into your metrics, showing whether you’re hitting thresholds with a RAG system.

Ensure tools and controls are deployed as expected and provide essential context for other metrics.

Answer questions like: “Do all our assets have endpoint protection?”

Provide actionable insight, narrow down the root cause, and take the next best action to reduce risk.

Use phishing test results combined with contextual data, for example, to identify which groups of employees to prioritize for training.

Organizations need trustworthy data to show that their cybersecurity programs are keeping them safe and reducing risk effectively. Panaseer’s metrics catalog gives customers new options for using and sharing common cyber metrics, enabling better collaboration and elevating the state of practice.

Andrew Jaquith, CISO and author
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