Is your security program effective? Can you prove it in a way that senior IT and business leaders can understand? An effective security metrics program can provide this type of evidence and justify the significant investments in information security made by your organization.

However, building an effective program requires careful planning. It’s easy to cobble together available data into some charts and graphs, but it’s much more difficult to paint a meaningful picture of the contributions that information security makes to your organization’s bottom line.

Read more: 5 Tips to Effectively Measure Security

Published in BizTech Magazine on March 8, 2012