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Cybersecurity Metrics That Matter
Cisco's Wendy Nather on How to Make a Security Program More Successful
Wendy Nather, head of advisory CISOs at Cisco, recently teamed up with researcher Wade Baker to investigate cybersecurity metrics and determine how to make a cybersecurity program measurably more successful. She shares some of her more surprising findings.
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In a video interview with Information Security Media Group as part of its RSA Conference 2021 coverage, Nather discusses:
- Key results of her research;
- What makes a security program stronger;
- The metrics that matter most to the board - and how to present them.
Nather is head of the avisory CISO team at Duo Security (now Cisco). She was previously the research director of the Retail ISAC and prior to that, research director of the information security practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research. Nather led IT security for the EMEA region of the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corp. (now UBS) and served as CISO of the Texas Education Agency. She is co-author of the book "The Cloud Security Rules."
