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Security metrics are a key initiative for many chief information security officers (CISOs) today, but many of them struggle with picking the right security metrics and translating the operational measurements into meaningful metrics for business. Forrester interviewed more than 20 companies in various stages of their security metrics programs, and some that have successfully implemented them, to glean best practices and lessons learned from those efforts. The three main themes that came out of this research are: Be very selective in picking your security metrics, think beyond the security organization, and focus on reporting and presentation.

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