Tag: metric
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18 ways to check whether data can be trusted for AI
ETSI has published TR 104 180, a technical report that defines 18 metrics for measuring data quality, giving companies a way to check whether their data is good enough for AI … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/07/etsi-ai-data-quality-metrics/
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The HuntDetection Gap: Choosing an AI Threat Hunting Solution in 2026
If you’re in the market for an AI threat hunting solution, chances are you’re evaluating based on investigation quality. That’s an understandable and reasonable metric to go on investigation quality is important, and most vendors focus their marketing on it. It’s not, however, the most important metric. Pretty much every vendor has decent investigation The…
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The Collective Cyber Defense letter wrote your next vendor questionnaire
More than 200 companies have now signed to an August 27 letter about improving cyber defenses in the age of AI. Buried in it are three metrics every one of them endorse under its own logo: coverage, containment speed, and whether fixes work. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/collective-cyber-defense-letter-vendor-questionnaire-op-ed/
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What Enterprise Continuous Compliance Software Misses
<div cla Key Takeaways: What Enterprise Continuous Compliance Software Misses Visibility gaps prevent your security team from detecting control failures until audits expose them months later. Weak control mapping disconnects your framework compliance from actual risk exposure, leaving critical gaps unaddressed. Executive reporting fails when dashboards show activity metrics instead of financial impact your board…
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Stop Building a 2003 SOC with AI: Local Context, Failure Modes and Your Path (Part 3)
In Part 1 of this series, we dumped a pile of uncomfortable questions on you and promised answers. In Part 2 of the series, we talked about why 1990s-2000s alert triage must die. The core thesis, if you recall: if you add AI agents into a legacy, swivel-chair SOC structure, you are essentially building a robotic…
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Will prediction markets turn your platform into a bot target?
Prediction markets can give bots a direct financial incentive to manipulate online metrics. TL;DR Prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi let people bet on future events, from election results to sports outcomes. Some markets are resolved using metrics published by websites and applications: Spotify streams, Twitch views, public First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to…
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How to Change Cybersecurity Data Into Risk Metrics – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/how-to-change-cybersecurity-data-into-risk-metrics-kovrr/
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Why Tool Count Is the Wrong Security Metric
CybaVerse’s Oliver Spence on Matching Tools to Business Outcomes. Mid-market organizations manage 30 to 40 security tools on average, yet many still struggle to define the outcomes these tools should deliver. Oliver Spence, CEO of CybaVerse, says the fix should start well before any procurement decision. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/tool-count-wrong-security-metric-a-31909
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Why patching SLAs should be the floor, not the strategy
SLAs measure discipline, not risk: Here’s the mental model I’ve been pushing with my peers. Think of patching SLAs the way you think of fire drills. Fire drills are necessary. They prove that, on a predictable cadence, your organization can execute a known procedure. No one in charge of a building full of people would…
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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The metrics killing your SOC, and what to use instead
Security operations centres risk being rendered entirely ineffective if organizations measure them using the wrong performance indicators, according to Dave Chismon, CTO for … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/28/soc-performance-metrics/
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No Metrics Are Better Than Bad Metrics in the SOC, Says NCSC
The National Cyber Security Centre has warned against measuring SOCs with ticket-based metrics First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/no-metrics-better-bad-metrics-soc/
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No Metrics Are Better Than Bad Metrics in the SOC, Says NCSC
The National Cyber Security Centre has warned against measuring SOCs with ticket-based metrics First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/no-metrics-better-bad-metrics-soc/
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As the NVD scales back CVE enrichment, here’s what Tenable customers need to know
Tags: access, ai, cisa, cloud, cve, cvss, data, data-breach, exploit, infrastructure, intelligence, kev, metric, mitre, nist, nvd, ransomware, risk, software, strategy, technology, threat, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-dayNIST’s shift toward selective CVE enrichment creates significant visibility gaps for teams relying solely on the National Vulnerability Database. As AI accelerates vulnerability disclosure rates, organizations need independent, high-fidelity intelligence to prioritize risks that the NVD may now overlook. Key takeaways NIST is pivoting to a prioritized enrichment model, focusing only on specific criteria like…
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7 Passkey Deployment Lessons from eBay, HubSpot, Revolut, and VicRoads
7 proven passkey deployment lessons from eBay, HubSpot, Revolut, and VicRoads. Covers enrollment design, mobile-first strategy, account recovery UX, device rotation handling, and the login success rate metric that actually predicts FIDO2 rollout success. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/7-passkey-deployment-lessons-from-ebay-hubspot-revolut-and-vicroads/
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We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, best-practice, computer, computing, control, cryptography, data, exploit, google, group, Hardware, metric, programming, risk, rust, technology, tool, update, vulnerabilityTwo weeks ago, Google’s Quantum AI group published a zero-knowledge proof of a quantum circuit so optimized, they concluded that first-generation quantum computers will break elliptic curve cryptography keys in as little as 9 minutes. Today, Trail of Bits is publishing our own zero-knowledge proof that significantly improves Google’s on all metrics. Our result is…
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Article 12 and the Logging Mandate: What the EU AI Act Actually Requires FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, data-breach, finance, GDPR, grc, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, jobs, metric, monitoring, regulation, risk, saas, service, toolApr 16, 2026 – Lina Romero – When GDPR arrived, the organisations that had mistaken documentation for capability were the ones that struggled the most. They had policies about data retention but no technical controls enforcing those policies. They had breach notification procedures but no systems capable of detecting a breach in time to use…
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The need for a board-level definition of cyber resilience
Tags: awareness, business, cisa, compliance, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, detection, finance, framework, governance, law, metric, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-analysis, risk-management, service, supply-chain, technologyWhere the literature converges: Organizational outcomes vs. policy and controls It’s consistently agreed that cyber resilience should be tied to organizational outcomes rather than technical controls and policies. Rather than focusing on metrics such as mean time to detection or number of security controls, organizational cyber resilience needs to evaluate levels of business continuity, preservation…
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5 trends defining the future of AI-powered cybersecurity
Tags: ai, automation, backup, breach, business, cloud, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, endpoint, framework, government, metric, monitoring, msp, regulation, resilience, threatSee how AI is altering the landscape in the new N-able and Futurum report, Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: Moving from Fragile to Resilient. Get key insights on building a modern framework for business resilience. 2. From perimeter security to continuous cyber resilience: The “castle and moat” approach is obsolete. In a world of…
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EdTech Digest – How to Fix the Digital Ghosting Epidemic
This article was originally published in EdTech Digest on 03/24/26 by Charlie Sander. To fight “digital ghosting,” schools need a smarter approach to device use, student safety, and digital wellbeing While physical attendance has long been the primary metric for school safety and success, a more insidious trend is emerging that data alone often misses. I…
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The AI inflection point: What security leaders must do now
The questions have matured: The AI discussion in security has evolved in phases.First came skepticism from security leaders, asking whether AI actually works in security operations. Given years of overpromised technology, the caution was warranted.Experimentation followed, with questions centering on what types of work AI should handle and where it introduces risk.Now, the dominant questions…
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The AI inflection point: What security leaders must do now
The questions have matured: The AI discussion in security has evolved in phases.First came skepticism from security leaders, asking whether AI actually works in security operations. Given years of overpromised technology, the caution was warranted.Experimentation followed, with questions centering on what types of work AI should handle and where it introduces risk.Now, the dominant questions…
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Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data
ShinyHunters claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/shinyhunters_rockstar_breach/
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Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data amid ShinyHunters threat of ‘Pay or leak’
Gang claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/shinyhunters_rockstar_breach/
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Anthropic Claude Mythos Will Break Vulnerability Management
Tags: access, ai, attack, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, metric, risk, software, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAnthropic’s latest AI Model, Claude Mythos, will break the cybersecurity vulnerability management operational models. Mythos is so good at discovering and building viable exploits it is currently being rolled-out in a controlled manner under “Project Glasswing”. Those cybersecurity companies who have early access are attesting to the blazing speed and accuracy of the model…
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Anthropic Claude Mythos Will Break Vulnerability Management
Tags: access, ai, attack, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, metric, risk, software, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAnthropic’s latest AI Model, Claude Mythos, will break the cybersecurity vulnerability management operational models. Mythos is so good at discovering and building viable exploits it is currently being rolled-out in a controlled manner under “Project Glasswing”. Those cybersecurity companies who have early access are attesting to the blazing speed and accuracy of the model…