A comprehensive objective network security metric framework for proactive security configuration
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Latifur Khan, Mohammad Salim Ahmed · 2008
In order to create secure and dependable systems and information intelligence, it is a major challenge to determine the security level of the network. This security level depends on a number of dynamically changing factors including emerging of new vulnerabilities and threats, policy updates and network traffic. An effective means to address this is to identify security metrics that measure the quality of security configuration objectively and dynamically.