Most useful security metrics in management monthly reports

["WALI" <hkhasgiwale () gmail com>]

I was thinking of creating a template for regularly capturing some 
information security metrics for putting together in my monthly report to 
executive management. Being in a non banking environment, the metrics should 
be more inward looking. Also, they should make sense for me too from being 
'proactively screening security' perspective. Examples that come to mind, 
who took rights over others exchange mailbox, how many new users got 
assigned to active directory domain admin group in the past month, how many 
failed login attempts and from which workstations? etc.

The idea is to identify metrics that might relate to something that's fishy 
out there, not necessarily coming out of Firewalls, IPS etc.

Any advise? 


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