Security Metrics (book)
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Security Metrics is a fairly comprehensive best-practice guide to defining, creating, and utilizing security metrics in the enterprise. Using sample charts, graphics, case studies, and war stories, the author demonstrates exactly how to establish effective metrics. The book explains how to quantify hard-to-measure security activities, compile and analyze all relevant data, identify strengths and weaknesses, set cost-effective priorities for improvement, and craft compelling messages for senior management.
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I'd really like to give this "3 ½" stars, but I rounded up to 4 stars. There is, currently, no book that is the "last word" on security metrics. The field is just not mature enough for that. However, this is certainly a very good and useful book for most people.
This book is for you if you are a practicing information security professional and you want to know the latest ideas about how to define, deploy, and use security metrics to improve security management. Written in an informal, personal style, Andrew's book reads like "letters from the front lines" (by analogy) <...more>
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| Article theme | publication synopsis + |
| Author | Andrew Jaquith + |
| ISBN | 0321349989 + |
| Publication date | 2007 + |
| Publication type | book + |
