Key performance indicators
There are a lot of theories and best practices around creating and selecting KPIs and for good reason. How many times have you seen a meaningful dashboard within a SOC or even any other department? The answer is likely very few. We, as humans, tend to like what is easy. And it is easy to create KPIs without thinking about the meaning behind them or the message you are trying to convey.
A KPI must have an objective and should help answer a question, therefore it requires a bit more effort – have we improved our security posture since the last adversary emulation exercise? It should also have a goal that should be aligned with an overall strategy.
All these parameters will also help you decide what visualization is better suited to represent the message and the goal of the KPI. A histogram or timeline chart might be better suited to compare values over time compared to a pie chart, which is better suited to represent proportions. For those of...