Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 14 | Page 87

/////////////////////////////////////////////////// t cht lk RETHINKING HOW WE MEASURE THE EFFICIENCY OF SECURITY OPERATIONS Roland Daccache, Senior Regional Sales Engineer MENA, Fidelis Cybersecurity, says an Automated Detection and Response (ADR) approach offers a different route to cybersecurity. ADR is based on a purpose-built platform designed to deliver validated conclusions about attacks, intrusions and compromises at any stage of the attack lifecycle while also automating the response capability to those attacks. C ISOs have become leaders in their businesses rather than just experts in their departments. They need to educate their peers on the scope, scale, severity and solutions for cybersecurity and how emerging threats affect each aspect of the business, elevate the cybersecurity discussion out of the trenches of speeds, feeds and fingerprints and finally report on evolving metrics that impact the bottom line of the business to facilitate rapid decision making by the rest of their executive peers. www.intelligentcio.com A recent report from the SANS institute found that 71% of organisations do not have regular metrics for or even measure incident response performance, process and effectiveness. Without metrics there is no objective way to determine progress. Enter Automated Detection and Response (ADR). A unified, ADR platform that provides its own broad and unique visibility across networks and endpoints, uses a variety of different but co-ordinated techniques to detect threats at any stage of the attack lifecycle, automatically correlates “ TAKING DOWN A PAYMENT PROCESSING SERVER IS A SUBSTANTIAL DISRUPTION. INTELLIGENTCIO 87