Guide to the CEO Dashboard
A dashboard customised to your role
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The data you see on your CEO dashboard can be exported by sending yourself an auto generated Cyber Report. This is a great way to maintain records for your Cyber Security or to send to a colleague.
There are three versions of the dashboard in HighGround - each customised to the role they were designed for.
As such, the CEO dashboard contains a mixture of the relevant technical, financial and compliance data that you need to stay aware of your organisation's overall stance on cyber security.
To learn more about the individual components of your CEO dashboard - browse the tabs below:
CyberScore
Your CyberScore:
The central focus of your dashboard is your CyberScore.
This singular value summarises the overall state of your organisation's Cyber Security. This numerical score ranges from 0-100, and is awarded a rating of Dangerous, Poor, Good, or Excellent accordingly.
Click on 'Score Details' to see more:
Clicking on Score Details will open a detailed breakdown of your CyberScore composition. You can also see an overview of the data retrieved from each technology by clicking on the arrow to the right to expand that field:
CyberThreat Level
Your CyberThreat Level:
Your CyberThreat Level is an indicator of how likely your organisation is to experience a cyber-attack based on real-time data from your cyber security tools and cyber intelligence data about trending attacks, or lack thereof.
CyberThreat Level is provided as a single numerical value ranging from 0 - 138, and is awarded a rating of None, Low, Moderate, High or Critical and accordingly.
Click on 'Threat Details' to see more:
Clicking on Threat Details will open a detailed breakdown of your CyberThreat Level composition. You can also see an overview of the data retrieved from each technology by clicking on the arrow to the right to expand that field:
If you would like a more detailed understanding of your CyberThreat Level, including how it is calculated and how to improve it - go to this article.
CyberCompliance
Your CyberCompliance
Your CyberCompliance is a powerful indicator of how well you are managing your organisations cyber security.
Different to how strong your current cyber security posture (CyberScore) is and how likely you are to experience a cyber-attack based on correlated data from your security tools (CyberThreat Level), your CyberCompliance is concerned with Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC).
Whilst technology and tools are an essential part of protecting your organisation from cyber-attack, a strong and diligent approach to managing your cyber security is essential to identifying and controlling your risks, preparing to respond and ensuring you can recover from a cyber-attack, and ensuring alignment between your IT/Cyber security teams and the Board of Directors of the business.
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Clicking on the CyberCompliance box on your dashboard will open a detailed breakdown of your CyberCompliance, including suggestions for improvement.
If you would like a more detailed understanding of your CyberCompliance, including how it is calculated and how to improve it - go to this article.
Cyber Savings
Your Cyber Savings:
At the top of your CEO dashboard you can see the amount of money your organisation has saved by investing in Cyber Security.
It can be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to demonstrate any Savings from your cyber security investment. At best its like insurance – pay the premium and hope for the best, but if it all goes wrong then at least you are covered for your losses.
Not now. We believe that the data provided by your tools is highly valuable and can be used to demonstrate financial savings – after all, if you didn’t have them then what would have happened if they hadn’t blocked that attack or dangerous email?
We utilize that UK Governments National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) latest published data on the average cost of a cyber-attack for an SME, industry leading data on the cost of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery costs, ad attribute financial values against the attacks that your security tools have detected and blocked, and services your IT/Cyber Security teams have purchased to respond and recover from potential and actual cyber-attacks, to calculate your potential CyberSavings.
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Clicking on the Cyber Savings box on your dashboard will open a detailed breakdown of your cyber security savings:
NOTE
CyberSavings is a probabilistic financial value based on average costs and likelihood of detected activity having resulted in a cyber-attack. This figure is more likely to be underestimated than overestimated, but countless variables could render the CyberSavings calculation inaccurate. On the balance of probability, your CyberSavings is a good indicator of the value you are receiving from the security tools you have invested in.