A CIO guide to building a dashboard for cybersecurity

Healthcare provider organizations are increasingly relying on security dashboards to monitor their cybersecurity efforts. These dashboards track various metrics and performance indicators, such as current threat levels, events, incidents, authentication errors, scans, probes, unauthorized access, brute force attacks, policy violations, malware events, and phishing events. The level of detail and measurement on the dashboard should be tailored to different audiences, with front-line staff given technical metrics and the leadership given a roll-up of those metrics presented in terms of business and enterprise risk management. Key performance indicators and metrics on the dashboard should measure the effectiveness of controls and help organizations understand if security goals are being met.