Too many information security executives struggle to sell their metrics efforts to the C-suite. Phil Gardner is the co-founder and CEO of IANS, a provider of in-depth security insights and decision support delivered through research, community and consulting. Gardner: The way the information security industry currently thinks about metrics needs an overhaul. The CEO is measured on revenue growth and expense control, so our strategic information security metrics have to mirror these priorities, he says. We need to ask: What are we trying to accomplish as a business? How do our security efforts support these initiatives?”]
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