---
id: 8364
title: "Metrics: Your Information Security Yardstick"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/vulnerability-management/metrics-your-information-security-yardstick/"
published_at: "2011-08-30T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["risk-management", "security-program", "security-metrics", "budget", "measurement"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8364"
lang: en
---

# Metrics: Your Information Security Yardstick

## Summary

Security metrics fall into effort, result, and environment types—from training hours to days since the last breach. Tracking them proves program value and helps justify budgets to leadership.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2011-08-30T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/vulnerability-management/metrics-your-information-security-yardstick/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8364