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Incident Metrics

What is Incident Metrics?

Quantitative measures used to track and evaluate the frequency, severity, response time, and cost of security incidents.

Information Security

Terms that appear alongside incident metrics

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as incident metrics. The number is how many controls name both.

Frameworks that govern incident metrics

ISO 27001:2022View framework →NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0View framework →CIS Controls v8View framework →

What the standards actually require on incident metrics

Requirements naming incident metrics across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.

NRF Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Framework (National Retail Federation)1 control

Operate third-party risk + supply chain + resilience + metrics + continuous improvement per NRF framework. Third-party risk must (a) maintain vendor inventory categorised by data access + critical service + payment processing + e-commerce platform + cloud serv...

NRFCS-8 · Third-Party Risk, Supply Chain, Vendor Management, Resilience, Peak-Season Readiness, Metrics, Continuous Improvement →
OSFI B-131 control

Operate metrics + monitoring + continuous improvement + maturity per OSFI B-13 Domain 6 + cross-cutting expectations. Metrics, Monitoring and Continuous Improvement must (a) maintain technology and cyber risk metrics covering control coverage + maturity + inci...

OSFIB13-8 · Metrics, Monitoring, Continuous Improvement, Maturity →
SANS Incident Handler's Handbook and PICERL Methodology1 control

Report incident metrics including dwell time, mean time to detect, mean time to contain, mean time to recover, financial impact, and lessons trend analysis to executive risk committees.

PICERL-L-03 · Lessons Learned: Metrics and Reporting to Executives →

Questions people ask about incident metrics

What is Incident Metrics?
Quantitative measures used to track and evaluate the frequency, severity, response time, and cost of security incidents.
Why is Incident Metrics important for compliance?
Incident Metrics is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding incident metrics helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Incident Metrics?
Incident Metrics appears in the requirement text of NRF Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Framework (National Retail Federation), OSFI B-13, SANS Incident Handler's Handbook and PICERL Methodology. Across these standards we have identified 3 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Incident Metrics?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how incident metrics applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.