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• Eye on ROI – with todays’ budget cuts and recession, executive boards are asking more and
more questions about the significant investment going into the security field. For most laymen,
there’s absolutely no way to understand the nuances among the dozens of security tools. This is
when the CISO’s office needs to adopt a simple way to translate their cumbersome stack to the
board and reflect the security gaps in a way that will help the board understand why following the
previous quarter’s budget increase, there’s still further need for investment.

• Effectiveness of policy enforcement – It’s one thing to work hard towards improving performance
but it's a whole other thing to not even be aware of how the policies the CISO has set are trending.
Adopting a simple, continuous view into this is the first step for much stronger governance.

To sum it up, the official addition of “govern” into the NIST framework is a great opportunity for the CISO
offices to upgrade the way they lead.

About the Author

Shirley Salzman, CEO and Co-Founder of SeeMetrics, a Cybersecurity
Performance Management (CPM) platform that transforms the way
security leaders measure, track, and improve stack performance. Unlike
today’s manual processes, SeeMetrics’ cockpit-like dashboard instantly
answers key questions around performance. Shirley brings over a
decade of experience in commercial leadership (Percepto, Contguard,
and Logic Industries). Prior to her high-tech career, Shirley worked for
global policy and strategy firms such as the German Marshall Fund of
the U.S. and the Institute for Policy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary
Center, Herzliya, Israel. Shirley holds an MA with honors in International
Security and Non-Proliferation from King’s College, London.

Shirley can be reached online at [email protected] and at our company website
https://seemetrics.co/

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