Measure what matters: 5 benchmarks every security leader should track

This report outlines five data-driven cloud security benchmarks and their KRIs to help CISOs assess and improve cloud posture: prioritize runtime vulnerabilities (including known exploited and actively targeted flaws), reduce detection-investigation-response times aligned to the “555” benchmark, enforce least-privilege identity governance and strong authentication for high-risk accounts, continuously assess and remediate infrastructure misconfigurations against policies like CIS benchmarks, and ensure comprehensive security tooling and telemetry coverage across cloud assets; it emphasizes visibility, speed, and resilience to align security with business objectives.