Chapter 28. Security Dashboard for the Board

The topic of cybersecurity did not fetch boardroom attention until recently; metrics and dashboards remained the subject matter of QA professionals. There is growing importance of cybersecurity in today's world where more and more business is conducted online. Board members are nowadays interested to reduce business risk and cyber-security risk is certainly the topmost risk in today's businesses.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

• Need for monitoring and reporting security threats

• Parameters to be monitored and reported

• Metrics-based reporting and an illustrative dashboard

• The consequences of security lapses

• Challenges in implementing a dashboard