Is risk a good security metric?

Why measuring security? To make good decisions about how to design security countermeasures, to choose between alternative security architectures, and to improve security during design and operations. This panel brings together a number security experts to relate their perspectives on what makes a good security metric, how risk analysis, one of the most widely used metric, stacks up against those criteria and what alternative metrics of security could be

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CCS
• Authors: O. Sami Saydjari
• Keywords: Alternative Security Architectures, CCS 2006, Security, Security Countermeasures, Security Privacy