---
id: 8362
title: "Metrics: Your Security Yardstick – Part 2 – Defining Metrics"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/vulnerability-management/metrics-your-security-yardstick-part-2-defining-metrics/"
published_at: "2011-09-15T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["vulnerability-management", "compliance", "security-program", "security-metrics", "measurement"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8362"
lang: en
---

# Metrics: Your Security Yardstick – Part 2 – Defining Metrics

## Summary

Follow-up on building security metrics: map controls to requirements, pull data from reliable sources like vulnerability management tools, then combine low-level metrics into higher-level indicators.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/vulnerability-management/metrics-your-security-yardstick-part-2-defining-metrics/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8362