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Cybersecurity Metrics: Protecting Data and Understanding Threats

Podcast
Scoping down objectives and determining what kinds of data to gather are persistent challenges in cybersecurity. Bill Nichols explores cyber metrics in our latest podcast.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
10.58012/5may-4108

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Abstract

Scoping down objectives and determining what kinds of data to gather are persistent challenges in cybersecurity. In this SEI podcast, Bill Nichols, who leads the SEI’s Software Engineering Measurements and Analysis Group, discusses the importance of cybersecurity measurement, what kinds of measurements are used in cybersecurity, and what those metrics can tell us about cyber systems.

About the Speaker

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Bill Nichols

William "Bill" Nichols joined the SEI in 2006 as a senior member of the technical staff and served as a Personal Software Process (PSP) instructor and Team Software Process (TSP) coach. Before joining the SEI, Nichols led a software-development team at the Bettis Laboratory near Pittsburgh, where he had been …

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