Information Security Management Metrics

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Information Security

Governance Metrics

We discussed approaches to developing metrics for implementing a security governance

strategy in Chapter 8. In this chapter, we will examine the decisions that will typically

need to be made and the information needed to support them from a strategic perspec-

tive from the viewpoint of managing an effort to develop and implement a strategy and

from an operational standpoint for strategy development. is will provide the basis

for determining what metrics will be needed to provide decision support information.

For the development of metrics, the intended recipients must always be con-

sidered. M ...