Security Incident Management Premium dashboard

This dashboard uses advanced Platform Analytics visualizations to aid security managers to track the volume, performance and progress of security incidents from initial analysis/detection to containment, eradication, and recovery. The licensed version of Performance Analytics is therefore required.

Figure 1. Security incident response by state

Figure 2. Security incident response by age

End users and roles

End user and goal	Required role	Benefits
Security Response Manager: Needs clear visibility into the overall state and volume of security incidents associated with applications and services.	sn_si.manager	Can review the overall security posture with the ability to adjust the members of assignment groups.
Security Response Administrator: Needs to pinpoint areas of concern quickly and have full control over all Security Incident Response data while administering territories and skills, as needed.	sn_si.admin	Can adjust risk calculation parameters to ensure vulnerable items that are most pertinent to the organization are being addressed first.
Security Response Analysts: Need to quickly prioritize which vulnerabilities to focus on based upon criticality to the organization.	sn_si.analyst	Tier 1 and 2 security analysts work on security incidents. They can create and update security incidents, requests, and tasks, as well as problems, changes, and outages related to their incidents.

Security Incident Management Premium indicators

The Process by State and Process by Age tabs contain workbench widgets with the following indicators:

Average age

The Average age of open security incidents indicator uses the formula [[Summed age of open security incidents]] / [[Number of open security incidents]] / 24 to give a result in days.

Average reassignment times

The Average re-assignment of open security incidents indicator uses the formula Summed re-assignment of open security incidents / Number of open security incidents.

Average age of last update

The Average age of last update of open security incidents indicator uses the formula Summed age of last update of open security incidents / Number of open security incidents / 24 to give a result in days.

% not updated in 5 days

The % of open security incidents not updated in last 5 days indicator uses the formula ( [[Number of open security incidents not updated in the last 5 days]] / [[Number of open security incidents]] ) * 100.

The Data Quality tab has interactive filters for the Category of the security incident and the levels of Risk, Priority, and Severity. These filters are applied simultaneously to the following indicators:

Security Incidents Open for More Than 30 Days by Assignment Group and State

The Number of open security incidents filtered for an age of 30 days and broken down by Assignment group and State.

Security Incidents With Assignee That is not Active

The Number of open security incidents with no assignee or an assignee who is not active.

Security Incidents Open for More Than 30 Days by Assignment Group and State

The Number of open security incidents not updated in the last 30 days indicator broken down by Assignment group and State.

The KPI tab has the following additional indicators:

• % of new critical security incidents
• Average Age of Open Security Incidents
• Average Close Time of Security Incidents
• % Of Security Incidents that have been reassigned
• % of Security Incidents closed on first assignment
• % of security incidents closed by self-service
• % of security incidents not solved
• Average Close time of security incident tasks

Breakdowns

The following breakdowns apply to the indicators on the dashboard:

• Security Group
• Security Incident Age
• Security Incident Category
• Security Incident Priority
• Security Incident State

Related concepts

• CISO dashboard
• Security Incident Management dashboard
• Security Incident Explorer dashboard
• Security Operations Efficiency dashboard