Monday, August 15, 2016

Loss Expectancy & InfoSec Metrics

So when looking to make single / annual loss expectancy (SLE / ALE) as subjective as possible it helps to have some metrics (i.e., KPIs / KRIs).

While vulnerability scanning / DAST / SAST / pen test findings can help, the best examples are from either honeypots or via red team exercises, to include: social engineering, phishing, whaling, and / or compromised digital assets.

Such metrics will help with the providing the (estimated) annual rate of occurrence (ARO) needed to determine the SLE * ARO = ALE.

Finally, while subjective, annual net sales / days of expected outage always helps w/ determining the SLE for ERP / EMR / EHR / ICS / CRM / SFA systems.

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