10 Security Metrics Categories CISOs Should Present to the Board

This report summarizes guidance for boards and CISOs on building rigorous cybersecurity KPIs/KRIs and operational dashboards, emphasizing data-backed assessments of program efficacy. It highlights metric categories spanning data protection, financial loss tracking, human behavior, supplier risk, infrastructure and endpoint posture, IoT exposure, application vulnerabilities, security validation/testing, and incident detection/response (e.g., MTTD/MTTR), to help quantify risk, track performance, and inform governance and investment decisions.