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Most Overrated Security Metrics

By CSO Contributor

December 01, 2006CSO

  • Return on investment

  • Any metric that does not resonate with management

  • Security budget to overall corporate budget

  • Intrusion detection system logs without analysis

  • Incidents per security staff

  • In-house security budget to outsourced security budget

  • Any numbers without context and analysis that are confirmed for value by the client
  • From real world CSOs

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