Best Practices

Recommended strategies to maximize the operational value and security effectiveness of your CISO Dashboard.

1. Align Dashboard Access with Organizational Structure

   Designate primary and secondary administrators who will manage dashboard access and configurations. Use Active Directory groups to manage dashboard viewer permissions in your cloud tenant. Grant read-only access to executive stakeholders; limit configuration changes to security operations teams.

2. Monitor Data Transmission Health

   Regularly verify that incidents are flowing from FSM to the Forcepoint Data Security Cloud platform by checking the Transaction Viewer. Set up alerts in FSM to notify administrators if incident transmission fails or is delayed. Review connectivity logs between FSM and cloud infrastructure to identify network or firewall issues proactively.

3. Use Dashboard Insights for Continuous Policy Refinement

   Review Top Violated Policies metrics monthly to identify policies generating excessive false positives or those requiring tuning. Investigate Top Risk Channels to understand whether incidents are legitimate business activity or genuine security risks. Adjust policy thresholds and exception lists based on historical incident trends to improve signal-to-noise ratio.

4. Drive User Awareness Through Risk Profiling

   Use Top Risky Users data to identify candidates for targeted security awareness training. Segment training by Top Risk Department to address department-specific behaviors. Track incident trends for users after training interventions to measure awareness program effectiveness.

5. Establish Data Retention and Compliance Standards

   Define retention periods for historical data in the cloud platform based on audit and compliance requirements. Schedule regular data exports for archival and compliance reporting. Ensure data residency for the selected cloud region aligns with corporate data governance policies.

6. Schedule Executive Reviews

   Establish a cadence for CISO reviews of dashboard metrics (e.g., monthly, quarterly) to assess strategic security posture. Generate executive summaries for board reporting leveraging dashboard data on risk trends and policy effectiveness. Correlate metrics with business events (M&A, policy changes, infrastructure updates) to contextualize trends.