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Business value

As explained in Cyber Threat Hunting

The beneficial contribution that an activity makes to an organization’s objectives, outcomes, or operations.

Business value is the beneficial contribution an activity makes to organizational objectives, outcomes, or operations. In threat hunting, it means showing how proactive security work protects the business and supports organizational decision-making. section 12.0

Demonstrating business value requires more than reporting operational metrics. Translate measurements and discoveries into business relevance for security and executive stakeholders, including the CISO and CIO. section 12.0 section 12.3

A practical business-value narrative connects:

  • Threat-hunting operations with protection of the business. section 12.0
  • Metrics with performance and measurable success. section 12.0
  • Discoveries with clear communication to stakeholders. section 12.0

Threat-hunting performance report

A performance report can combine key-value metrics with a threat-hunting expedition narrative and dashboards tailored to the executive team, CISO, and security operations manager. section 12.0

How Cyber Threat Hunting covers it

How deep it goes
Defines business value through measurement, reporting, stakeholder communication, dashboards, and a threat-hunting expedition.
Examples
Uses a threat-hunting expedition, success dashboards, operational metrics, and reports for security and executive stakeholders.
What you can do after
Evaluate threat-hunting impact by relating operational metrics and discoveries to business relevance for stakeholders.
How it connects
Connects business value with threat hunting, metrics, governance, reporting, dashboards, and stakeholder communication.

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