Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (Paperback)
<>The Definitive Guide to Quantifying, Classifying, and Measuring Enterprise IT Security Operations  Security Metrics is the first comprehensive best-practice guide to defining, creating, and utilizing security metrics in the enterprise.  Using sample charts, graphics, case studies, and war stories, Yankee Group Security Expert Andrew Jaquith demonstrates exactly how to establish effective metrics based on your organization’s unique requirements. You’ll discover how to (more…)
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Practical How-To Metrics for Impact…plus Balanced Scorecard!
SECURITY METRICS is exclaimed as one of the only books you can find having to do with Info System Security (ISS) metrics.
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Some gaps, but useful nonetheless
Andrew Jaquith’s book on security metrics is refreshing in its approach. Instead of a neverending cycle of risk assessments and vulnerability patching (a process which the author…
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Good resource for infosec professionals
Nutshell review - This is a great book on security metrics. Practical, applicable, well written, well presented and will serve as an excellent resource for security professionals.
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A necessary paradigm shift for information security
Upon completion of this book, I began to muse: what percentage of security professionals have given any thought to security metrics?
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Every security professional (or wannabe) should read this book
I’m not sure what I can write to sway you to buy or read the book if 5 star reviews from Ben Rothke and Richard Bejtlich don’t sway you but I’ll throw my likes and dislikes in…
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I liked it better than Cats!
What a book. Seriously, I laughed, I cried. I shouted in frustration, only to be placated on the next page.
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Excellent info; too much nerd-speak
As the other reviewers state, the information in this book is very valuable and would be an asset to any information security professional, particularly those of us involved in…
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Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Undertainty & Doubt
The book is an excellent resource for the security professional who is interested in implementing a strong industrial security program with measures that can assess its…
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Chicken Soup for the CISO’s Soul
All killer no filler. Jaquith provides new directions in a field, information security, that sorely needs them.
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introductory discussion of stats and visualisation
The advocacy of metrics in the book involves the search for objective metrics. That is, these could be used by different people or organisations, and yet arrive at the same…