Blog Article
A panel session at the FIRST conference on comparable security metrics made me wonder why this seems to be so hard. My first visit to another CSIRT, fifteen years ago, was to work out how to compare our Janet CSIRT statistics with those from SURFnet. And yet the tricky question still seems to be working out what it is you are actually measuring. Most incident statistics actually give you a reasonable idea of how busy the CSIRT is: as with most metrics the absolute values don't mean much but the trend – whether more or less busy – probably does.
