Highest level clearances planned for all US IT security pros.
✍ Scribed by Wayne Madsen
- Book ID
- 104391976
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Volume
- 2004
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1353-4858
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Chief Security officers are rising to the challenge of defining metrics for network security to help justify security spend in the boardroom. CSOs from Motorola, Macromedia and McKesson Corp have forged the Security Metrics Consortium to define standardized real-world security risk metrics to present to senior executives. "CFOs use a profit and loss statement to share the health of the company with board members, executives and shareholders; yet CSOs and CISOs have no such structure or standard to demonstrate organizational health from a security standpoint," said Bill Boni, SecMet chairman. "Network security experts can't measure their success without security metrics, and what can't be measured can't be effectively managed." "Without quantifiable data to show value, the IT security budget is at risk," said Stuart Mc Clure, CTO at Foundstone. http