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Build a metrics program tailored to your organization’s strategic goals

This article was originally published in Security Magazine.

Think back to your early days in the security industry. Perhaps, like many others, you spent years in law enforcement or the military before transitioning to the private sector. The business jargon you encountered — ROI, KPI, risk mitigation — may have felt like another language. It’s not that you didn’t understand what your colleagues were talking about. But using these terms to tell the story of your department may have been challenging.

Metrics are the language of business and the foundation on which many of the most important organizational decisions are made. They can help you defend the department’s budget and support requests for resource increases. They can help document year-to-year progress and identify opportunities for improvement.

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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Articles - Ontic authored by Chuck Randolph. Read the original post at: https://ontic.co/resources/article/metrics-that-matter-how-security-professionals-can-show-value/