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Fact-Based Network Security: Metrics and the Pursuit of Prioritization

What should you do right now? That’s one of the toughest questions for any security professional to answer. The list is endless, the priorities clear as mud, the risk of compromise ever present. But doing nothing is never the answer. Independent research and analysis firm Securosis has been working with practitioners to answer that question for years, and they finally got around to documenting some of the approaches and concepts.

That’s what “Fact-Based Network Security: Metrics and the Pursuit of Prioritization” is all about. Securosis spent some time defining ‘risk’, trying to understand the metrics that drive decisions, working to make the process a systematic way to both collect data and make those decisions, and understanding the compliance aspects of the process. Finally Securosis goes through a simple scenario that shows the approach in practice.

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