7 Crucial Security Metrics Every Engineer Must Know

89% of businesses in 2023 suffered negative impacts due to a lack of cybersecurity and business alignment. Security metrics are important for protecting businesses against cyberattacks and the top seven metrics to start with are user access controls, mean time to detect (MTTD), vulnerability discovery rate, mean time to resolve (MTTR), compliance adherence, costs of cybersecurity and incident management, and comparing your cybersecurity management to competitors in your industry.