DORA Metrics Measure Delivery Health. What Measures Security Posture Health?

Short summary

Security teams lack leading indicators like DORA metrics for delivery. Finding counts, compliance percentages, and incident counts all measure the wrong things—scanning effort, snapshots, or trailing failures. The author proposes five security-equivalent metrics: evaluation frequency, time to remediate, mean time to remediate, new findings per evaluation, and recurrence rate—each mapping to a DORA metric and measuring trajectory rather than snapshots.

• •Current security metrics (finding counts, compliance %, incident counts) measure effort or trailing failures, not trajectory
• •Proposes five DORA-equivalent security metrics: evaluation frequency, time to remediate, MTTR, new findings per evaluation, recurrence rate
• •These metrics connect delivery practices to security outcomes and reveal whether posture is improving or deteriorating

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