March 01, 2010 — CSO — "Successful visualisation tools take into account user interface design, human-computer interaction, psychology of human perception, machine pattern recognition, and are as much borne from certainly the design side of art as they are about presenting quantified data."
Read more about metrics/budgets in CSOonline's Metrics/Budgets section.
Security metrics are a challenge that CSOs must meet head-on. Here is unmatched depth for identifying effective metrics, collecting them, presenting them, and using them for operational improvement and for budgeting purposes.
Security metrics: Critical issues
Case studies, innovative ideas, finanical and operational metrics, effective presentation—the Web's best practical guide to security and operational risk metrics
The great IT risk measurement debate
Alex Hutton and Doug Hubbard on what metrics you have, what you need, and what you can do about it
The security data and survey directory
5 steps for communicating security's value to nonsecurity people
Security and business financial and budgeting basics
Great information security metrics
Metrics for physical security programs
- Balancing Increasing Security Requirements with Decreasing Budgets
- Gain Control of the New Threat Landscape
- Securing Your BYOD Strategy: Cisco Secure Mobility Solutions
- Securing Your BYOD Strategy: Cisco Secure Mobility Solutions
- Introduction to VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5
- Reliable Disaster Protection with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Overcome Top 7 Admin Challenges of Active Directory
- X-Ray of the PCI Process-4 Proactive Steps
- Beyond SFTP: Five Ways Secure Managed File Transfer Can Improve Your Business
- Secure Managed File Transfer: Bringing Coherence & Control to Compliance
- The TCO of FTP: Hidden Costs of "Free" File Sharing
- Streamline, Speed and Secure the Supply Chain with Managed File Transfer
- Patch Tuesday preview, February 2012
Microsoft published its Patch Tuesday Preview for February of 2012 a few minutes ago. IT admins can expect nine bulletins to address 21 security vulnerabilities.
It looks like four bulletins will be rated critical while the rest are designated as important.
Affected Microsoft products are:
- M86 report proves water is wet
- Actor, banker, soldier, spy: Suits and Spooks Anti-Conference aims to redefine security
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