Why security threats need to be monitored and reported?
All systems are prone to vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious software and agents. Developers and users of IT need to assess and manage the risk from unavoidable security vulnerabilities and threats. One of the biggest challenges is to identify and measure relevant security parameters for supporting decision-making. Capgemini Cybersecurity survey sheds light on the risks that organizations are facing. Take a look at the following image:
The determination of security parameters and their quantification can't be a trivial matter. On one hand, the parameters need to be applicable to the low-level components and, on the other, the same parameter should be usable for very different purposes such as compliance with standards, contractual requirements, comparison with benchmarking, and so on.
