Arco Cyber offers cutting-edge solutions tailored for legal firms, ensuring robust cybersecurity and risk management. Our comprehensive approach addresses the unique challenges faced by the legal sector.
.png?width=1080&height=1080&name=man%20in%20suit%20transparent%20bg-1-Legal%20(5).png)
Boards and partners struggle to manage cybersecurity as a business issue. Consequently, explaining the business value of security controls to CFOs remains challenging.
Cybersecurity is now the top technology investment priority. Since 2022, 88% of boards view security as a business issue. In 2024, 38% of partners consider security critical for enterprise and revenue growth.
Gartner - 2024
While most firms will be performing Cyber Maturity assessments which offer a high-level view of an organisation’s security practices, they fail to measure the most important aspect—actual risk posture.
This is where Outcome-Driven Metrics (ODMs) provide a significant advantage by focusing on measurable protection levels rather than abstract progress.
Maturity models typically measure how well a company has implemented security processes, but they often don’t provide any real visibility into the effectiveness of those measures in reducing actual risk.
Partners face challenges in understanding the direct business value of cybersecurity investments. ODMs solve this by directly linking security outcomes to cost.
Take the process of patching vulnerabilities, You may track metrics like “unpatched vulnerabilities” which don't offer real insight into the organisation’s risk exposure.
The key question that organisations should be asking is:
“How fast do we patch vulnerabilities?”
Faster patching times lead to a tangible improvement in security outcomes. This ODM provides actionable insights, guiding your security teams and executives alike to make decisions that genuinely reduce risk, rather than relying on abstract maturity scores that offer little clarity on immediate vulnerabilities.
Organisations can implement Protection Level Agreements (PLAs)
Much like service-level agreements (SLAs), PLAs provide an expected performance level agreed between security teams and business leaders, taking into consideration the investment provided.
A firm may agree to maintain a 30-day patch cycle at a specific cost—say, £1 million per year.
PLAs take the guesswork out of cybersecurity, allowing business leaders to focus on what they do best—steering the organisation—while security teams focus on delivering specific, measurable outcomes.
Security leaders can ask the CEO: “How many days would you like your systems to remain vulnerable to hacking? and How much are you prepared to invest to achieve this?”
By adopting ODMs and PLAs, firms can make more informed, data-driven decisions that not only improve their security posture but also align with their overall business strategy.
