What is SeeMetrics?

SeeMetrics is a Gartner-recognized Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM) platform that revolutionizes how security leaders measure, track, and improve stack performance. Unlike manual processes, SeeMetrics uses real-time stack-derived data to automate answers to questions around performance.

What is a Cybersecurity Performance Management platform?

SeeMetrics officially launched in April 2022. Five months later, Gartner established and defined The Cyber Security Performance Management (CPM) category in the 2022 Hype Cycle for Risk Management is “...designed to continually assess the current performance of the overall cybersecurity function or individual programs and dynamically plan a strategic and business-aligned approach to driving improved cybersecurity performance…”

SeeMetrics is leading this new category by creating an automated platform that offers continuous visibility into performance with real-time metrics, allowing CISOs and security leaders to make data-driven decisions, proactively plan their security programs and organization, and align with the overall business goals of their organization.

SeeMetrics is focused on giving clear answers to the key questions security leaders need to answer on a daily basis. This has been a critical pain point for CISOs and their teams who have long suffered from alert and tool fatigue. The innovative SeeMetrics platform solves this pain point by continually collecting all the relevant data, normalizing and contextualizing it – all to create CISO Cockpit, a single source of truth for security stakeholders.

Why is a CPM necessary?

Security leaders continue to find themselves in the middle of a multi-challenging threat landscape, a stricter regulatory environment, and a worsening economic climate that demands stricter budget control and ROI optimization. They are under pressure to defend the value of their security programs and answer questions around performance, investments and budget. Adding to the complexity is the size of their security stack, which nonstop generates data from a diverse portfolio of tools.

Unlike leaders of other units such as finance, sales, marketing, and human resources, security leaders make key decisions without a centralized dashboard (think Salesforce, HubSpot or Bloomberg). The stakes for accountability are higher than ever yet they are navigating in the dark, without a real-time source of truth.

“I spend about two hours every morning just digesting what’s changed since I went to bed, be it new threats, bad actors, or vulnerabilities,” says Jason Witty, former Global CISO of JP Morgan Chase, encompassing in one sentence everything that’s wrong with the way CISOs are positioned to manage their ecosystems. Without a unified dashboard, they don't instantly know the state of their operations, what has changed, which capabilities are currently missing, overlapping or underperforming. They can’t quickly identify trends. They have no easy way to communicate what’s happening with other stakeholders.

Instead, security leaders are using time-intensive, resource-heavy reports that lack the security context. These manual reports are expensive to generate as they need to involve analysts and security SMEs. Plus, such reports are outdated by the next day, making it hard for security teams to answer everyday questions.

The SeeMetrics solution

SeeMetrics covers the entire security data journey – it continuously collects, normalizes, analyzes and contextualizes data, derived straight from the security stack and other relevant sources, offering security leaders the consolidated management dashboard they need. SeeMetrics automatically puts the data in the security context, thus removing the need to involve analysts and security SMEs.

SeeMetrics offerscomes with out-of-the-box thresholds and benchmarks that can be used immediately to assess performance. These can be customized to reflect each organization’s unique needs, context and standards, and be compared against industry benchmarks. Whatever KPIs security leaders set, they can keep a constant finger on the pulse of their performance towards meeting these goals.

The metrics SeeMetrics provides grant meaningful insights on where security leaders allocate manpower, how they adjust budget, and to which critical cybersecurity areas they channel resources. These metrics help bring operational tools in line with budget and human resources goals, create stack rationalization, and streamline program management. Security leaders can nowmake the most of what they already have, remove what they don’t need, and justify their stack and budget. It significantly reduces the time and effort required to identify the state of operations, pinpoint trends, and generate insights.

Ultimately, what SeeMetrics achieves is the crystallization of the value of the security programs CISO’s and their security teams work so hard to develop and maintain. This value can easily be conveyed to the rest of the organization and the board of directors as they now rely on one source of truth with historical trends, benchmarks, and KPIs that align with the business. Better performing and more efficient security programs free up time and resources, helping CISOs and security leaders focus on strategy and larger goals, and lead with more confidence.