By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO
When it comes to your organization’s IT security framework, it’s essential that you measure how precisely effective your cybersecurity is. Cyber threats are continuing to get stronger and more deceptive. Therefore, your security framework needs to be able to grow and adapt as well.
In the fourth installment of our “Tips to Avoid IT Security Pitfalls,” Xigent’s Chief Information Security Officer, Amos Aesoph, breaks down how important it is to understand how to measure and monitor security effectiveness.
The security effectiveness most organizations are concerned with surrounds their digital landscape. Organizations spend more money than ever on protecting their employees, clients, and sensitive data from cyber threats and other digital dangers. Security effectiveness refers to the capabilities of security measures to protect sensitive data, systems, and individuals from potential threats.
If someone asked, “How secure is your business today?” would you be comfortable with your answer?
If you said “Yes,” would you be able to prove it with data and analytics?
Understanding security effectiveness is only the beginning of your IT security journey. The most critical piece is measuring and monitoring its progress over time to ensure your program works for your organization, not against it.
Measuring your organization’s security effectiveness starts with establishing a defined methodology that allows you to measure and monitor your security effectiveness and turn that data into quantitative metrics. Next, you must develop scoring metrics to track your performance over time.
Without the ability to monitor your progress over time, how will you ever prove that your security is working? Just because there aren’t obvious signs of a cyber attack within your organization doesn’t mean you are safe; many times, cybercriminals go undetected for weeks before acting.
Properly securing your organization in 2024 can come with challenges and questions. Xigent can assist you throughout this process with SecurPath – a defined plan on how to improve your IT security.
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Be sure to check out Xigent’s SecurPath web pages, follow us on social media, and stay tuned to watch and read parts 1-5 of Xigent’s Tips to Avoid IT Security Pitfalls series to stay up to date on IT Security topics:
Xigent’s Tips to Avoid IT Security Pitfalls
Part 1 – Common IT Business Risks
Part 2 – What Drives the Need for Improved Security?
Part 3 – How Secure Does My Organization Need to Be?
Part 4 – How Do I Measure Security Effectiveness?
Part 5 – How Do I Improve My Information Security?