metrics

April 7, 2023

APPLICATIONS

Extending observability with the Cisco FSO Platform

There’s long been a need for better visibility and correlated insights across applications, cloud environments, and user experiences. And the need has only intensified with: Applications becoming increasingly virtualized, cloud-native, and distributed Data availability and security becoming more paramount User experiences increasingly tied to business productivity and success Having a comprehensive visibility solution that pieces […]

June 10, 2022

DEVELOPER

Metrics that Matter

Beyond "Mean Time to Innocence" (MTTI), these are the most important software metrics you should be tracking.

October 14, 2014

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Join Us on Oct. 22 for Our Final Analytics Webcast

Hello, retailers everywhere! My name is Dianne Lamendola, and I am a senior retail practice advisor here at Cisco. My role is to work closely with store operators and merchants...

July 16, 2014

SECURITY

Unified Security Metrics Program—Live at RSA Singapore

Noted business management author Peter Drucker famously said, “What’s measured is improved.” When applied to the world of security, meaningful security metrics can literally transform an organization and solve real business problems. At Cisco, Unified Security Metrics (USM) combines multiple sources of data to create higher-value actionable business metrics and decision-making capabilities to protect the […]

May 20, 2014

SECURITY

April 2014 Threat Metrics

April kicked off with a 1:292 rate of malware encounters and closed with a rate of 1:315. Highest peak day was April 20 when the rate reached 1:177. Lowest was April 4 at 1:338. The median rate of web malware encounters in April 2014 was 1:292, representing a slight improvement over the median of 1:260 […]

April 16, 2014

SECURITY

Making Your Metrics Program Effective Beyond Just Charts and Numbers

Information security is all about risk reduction, and risks are notoriously difficult to measure - ask any insurance salesman or actuary. So how do we handle this conundrum for a security metrics program that hasn't even reached its second anniversary yet?

April 10, 2014

SECURITY

March 2014 Threat Metrics

The median rate of web malware encounters in March 2014 was 1:260, compared to a median rate of 1:341 requests in February. At least some of this increased risk appears to have been a result of interest in the NCAA tournaments (aka March Madness), which kicked off during the second week of March in the […]