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It’s often easy to put cybersecurity practices in a box that is essentially “out of sight, out of mind” until there is a data breach and the C-suite are scrambling and asking “why?” or, more importantly, “how”? For modern, forward-thinking companies, it’s no longer enough just to use a risk matrix and hope for the best.
Quantifying risk can be a mystical process, especially when discussing black-box reporting. Many risk quantification solutions available today are, by all intents and purposes, black-box solutions that ingest risk data and return metrics specific to the solution with little to no explanation as to how those metrics came about. When looking at “glass-box” vs. black-box in cybersecurity, we’re talking about the theory of transparent risk quantification vs. shielded risk quantification.
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Read the original article: Cyber Resilience Starts With Visibility: How Risk Quantification is Imperative to Improving Security Posture