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Do Your SOC Metrics Incentivize Bad Behavior?

Palo Alto Networks

The following post on SOC metrics is adapted from the book, “Elements of Security Operations,” a guide to building and optimizing effective and scalable security operations. Some metrics that security operations centers (SOCs) widely use to evaluate their performance have the potential to drive poor behavior. SOC Metrics That Matter.

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Ask Miss O11y: To Metric or to Trace?

Honeycomb

Dear Miss O11y, I remember reading quite interesting opinions from you about usage of metrics and traces in an application. I must admit that I was quite puzzled by your stance regarding the (un)usefulness of metrics compared to traces in apps in some contexts (debugging). What are metrics? When are metrics good?

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO

What’s on your data dashboard as the most important metrics? From an IT security perspective, dashboards of the past were traditionally used to indicate metrics like system status (i.e., online, offline) or uptime; however, the most important metrics today are those that indicate abnormal trends or indications of compromise.

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Tailscale lands $100 million to ‘transform’ enterprise VPNs with mesh technology

TechCrunch

. “The first step toward zero trust is to eliminate trust in the physical network, which means eliminating reliance on ‘perimeter defenses’ like network-level firewalls. But by other metrics, the company has performed well in the face of competition from ZeroTier and Cloudflare One.

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SOC and Awe — How Autonomous Security Is Changing the Game

Palo Alto Networks

Brothers describes how Unit 42 uses their Threat Intelligence Knowledge Repository (TIKR) to collect and analyze data from millions of Palo Alto Networks firewalls, endpoints and cloud instances. Traditional metrics, like mean time to detect, respond and close, remain important.

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How to build a safe path to AI in Healthcare

CIO

Some important steps that need to be taken to monitor and address these issues include specific communication and documentation regarding GenAI usage parameters, real-time input and output logging, and consistent evaluation against performance metrics and benchmarks.

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Key Server Monitoring Metrics for Measuring Performance

Kaseya

In this blog post, we will explore the key server monitoring metrics, explain their significance and provide best practices for leveraging these metrics to enhance your server management strategy. What are server monitoring metrics? What are key server monitoring metrics?

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