RE: Most useful security metrics in management monthly reports

["Andy Tornquist" <atornquist () aamc org>]

The center for internet security has a pdf that goes over security
metrics in detail

Andy Tornquist
Sr. Infrastructure Security Specialist
Association of American Colleges
Office: 202 862 6280
Cell: 202-288-5909
Fax: 202 862 6122
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Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 9:55 AM
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Subject: Most useful security metrics in management monthly reports

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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