A core pillar of a mature cyber risk program is the ability to measure, analyze, and report cybersecurity threats and performance. That said, measuring cybersecurity is not easy. On one hand business leaders struggle to understand information risk (because they usually are from a non-cyber background), while on the other, security practitioners get caught up in too much technical detail which ends up confusing, misinforming, or misleading stakeholders.

In an ideal scenario, security practitioners must measure and report cybersecurity in a way that senior executives understand, find useful, satisfy curiosity, and lead to actionable outcomes.

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