![]() ![]() This allows you to identify strengths and weaknesses in your program, gaps that need to be filled to strengthen baseline cybersecurity performance. With all this data aggregated, you can begin to combine the puzzle pieces from the different tools that results in meaningful and robust a picture of your overall security posture.Ĭybersecurity performance management relies on leveraging this data to create a continuous view of the operational cybersecurity performance of your security team. Understanding where your team’s current performance lies is critical in tracking the movement from “where we are” to the “where we need to be.” This can be done with automation by aggregating data that is already being collected by your existing tools, such as vulnerability data from vulnerability scanners, identity management metrics from Active Directory, your endpoint metrics from Microsoft Intune, and anything else that might be relevant to tracking cybersecurity outcomes. This requires visibility and performance tracking, a core part of performance management in general. To address these questions, we need to first understand how we can improve cybersecurity outcomes in a targeted and meaningful way. Are we consistent and continuously improving?.Cybersecurity performance management helps address the questions that must be at the heart of every board discussion: At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if you have a sophisticated product stack if an engineer misconfigures an S3 bucket, leaving its contents publicly accessible. What has been lost in this scramble is the pursuit of operational performance and capital efficiency. Endlessly inflating tool stacks of the latest fad product. For years, businesses have been throwing millions of dollars at the issue of cybersecurity. Gartner has picked up on something that we have long valued here at TDI the value of targeted optimization efforts brought about by greater visibility into the day-to-day performance of cybersecurity teams. In this publication, their aim was to, “demonstrate the need for organizations to renew their attention on the fundamentals of risk management,” and “provide the risk insights that are required to create strategies to build successful digital business processes.” Gartner’s Hype Cycle publications are a way to bring the spotlight to under-represented and emerging sectors of the industry, a way to get more eyes on new areas of innovation. CPM has been identified by Gartner as an emerging product category in their Hype Cycle for Cyber and IT Risk Management in both their 20 publications. It has been gaining traction in other circles, too. This kind of insight that CPM provides will revolutionize the way organizations manage cybersecurity in support of the business. This new visibility into continuous performance against goals along with measures of consistency and coverage creates tremendous new understanding around risk, providing for data driven decision making that can truly improve security and curb excess spend. If you could take a specific security initiative, a CSF Function, or even an overall cyber program and know exactly how strong your cybersecurity performance is, it completely changes everything. At present, businesses are dumping endless amounts of resources into the latest tools and software suites without considering the realistic return on their investment. We see it as transformative in the evolution of cybersecurity teams, as organizations look to track, measure, and optimize their investments in cybersecurity performance. Since 2017, TDI has long championed the process of Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM). ![]()
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