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Security Metrics
That Matter

Consistent, business-relevant metrics to drive ROI, alignment and accelerate your security program.

Defining Key Security Metrics

Security Metrics
to Manage and Improve
Security Operations

Measuring and analyzing the right metrics enables consistent awareness and continuous improvement of an organization’s visibility, effectiveness of security team, and your security posture. Understanding metrics like MTTR and your threat coverage enables your team to improve and report on results.

Comprehensive Visibility

Real-time visibility across all attack vectors mapped to standard frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK®.

Security Tool Health

Measure and report on the health and performance of your security tools to achieve ROI faster.

Tool Coverage

Track visibility coverage across tools deployed and close gaps based on your risk strategy.

Team Efficacy

Measure and improve your team's ability to respond to cyber threats.

How Model Index Works

GreyMatter Security Model Index Enables You to Measure and Improve Security Operations

ReliaQuest has worked with security leaders at global organizations for over a decade and has identified key metrics to help security leaders understand their posture and work to improve it.

Log Source Coverage
and Diversity

Shows current level of visibility and integrated tools across your entire organization so you know what’s missing and what to prioritize next.

MITRE ATT&CK®
Mapping

Maps threat detection coverage across MITRE ATT&CK framework identifying risk and investment areas for the business.

Mean Time to Resolve
(MTTR)

Delivers an mean time to resolve (MTTR) trendline so you can understand how MTTR improves over time.

False Positive
and Anomalous Safe Rate

Identifies the need for tuning and highlights activity deemed safe through investigation so the security team can move from being reactive to proactive.

When businesses choose ReliaQuest they see results

See Our Platform in Action
52 %

Decrease in Alert Triage
and Response Times

89 %

Reduction in Alert Noise
and False Positives

35 %

Improvement in
Total Cost of Ownership

Technology Capabilities

Key Capabilities of the
Security Model Index

GreyMatter delivers key, business-ready metrics, giving leaders real-time views into critical areas of security operations and practices. Metrics are benchmarked against previous quarters and industry peers, giving insights into how your program is performing comparatively and maturing over time.

Measurement to Communicate and Improve Security Operations

GreyMatter delivers transparent, easy-to-understand metrics to drive continuous improvement and deliver ROI across your security program. The Model Index automatically suggests improvements based on your environment, technology, and business.

  • Real-time visibility across all attack vectors mapped to MITRE ATT&CK® framework.
  • Measure and report on the health and performance of your security tools to achieve ROI faster.
  • Track across tools deployed and close gaps based on your risk strategy.

Visibility Metrics

Ensure security ecosystem performance through visibility into the health of your tools and detection coverage.

  • Log source coverage and diversity shows current level of visibility and integrated tools across your entire organization so you know what’s missing and what to prioritize next.
  • Maps threat detection coverage across all phases of the MITRE ATT&CK® framework identifying risk areas to the business.

Team Performance

Understand our performance and how your security program can be improved.

  • Mean time to resolve (MTTR) reduces the amount of time an attacker can dwell in your environment.
  • False positive rate identifies the need for tuning so the security team can move from being reactive to proactive.
  • Anomalous safe rate highlights activity that is deemed safe through investigation, but sometimes can be malicious.
Integrations and Connections

Reinforce Your Security Ecosystem with GreyMatter

Seamlessly integrate GreyMatter into your existing security ops tech stack to enhance visibility across your tools and gain the context and insights you need to operationalize security and protect your business.

Integrate data from existing toolsets in one, user-friendly view to enhance visibility across your tools and gain the context and insights you need to operationalize security and protect your business.

WHY RELIAQUEST

ReliaQuest GreyMatter Enables You to
Measure and Improve Your Security Operations

ReliaQuest GreyMatter
  • Reporting with metrics that demonstrate business value and alignment to outcomes.
  • Team Performance index providing an up-to-date picture of how well teams are responding to threats.
  • Proactive health monitoring powered by a unique combination of technology, ongoing enablement, and analytics.
Other Security Platforms
  • Technically-focused status reports.
  • Little or no measurement of how their platform and your team operate.
  • Rudimentary checklists or nothing at all.
Customer Testimonials

A Proven Leader in
Detection, Investigation, and Response

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Our SOC has really strong, clean metrics. GreyMatter gives us visibility into the specifics of our environment by making the data within our existing toolset easier to assess, and we get a lot of information from ReliaQuest’s Model Index that helps me frame up what our operation side looks like. Trey Tunnell Floor & Décor, Director of Cybersecurity Operations
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Since partnering with ReliaQuest, we’ve been able to mature our program much faster. They help us understand the effectiveness of our controls and where we should be focusing our investments as well as our efforts. CISO, $4.5B Global Producer of Industrial Minerals
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ReliaQuest's Model Index gives us visibility and insight so that we can see – where are we falling short? Where are we exceeding? Where can we invest more? Where can we make smarter decisions? Bringing insight of the full end-to-end process has been critical for improvement.” Christine Vanderpool CISO, Florida Crystals
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Learn How GreyMatter Measure and Improve Your Security Operations

Board-ready reporting quantifies the impact of the security operations team, and the confidence to communicate the value of security to your business.

GreyMatter's security operations platform dashboard