Efficacy of Security Products and Services
Are you getting a return on your security investment?
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Continuing this series of blog posts on Cybersecurity for Executives, we come to concerns the efficacy of security products and services. In other words, how well they work? Once you have evaluated your security vendors and products to ensure they are implementing security controls according to your requirements, you need to analyze the effectiveness of the security product itself. When you purchase a security product or service, how do you know if the product is helping?
Just like anything else, you can gather metrics from and about security products. You can do this in advance of purchase and after. The quality of the data depends on the product. The quality of the analysis of the results depends on the knowledge of your…
