Challenging whether Merrowgate Building Society's security dashboards tell the truth: the Critical Assets Overview stayed green for 543 minutes after the core banking audit forwarder went silent, while a leftover contractor account opened six privileged sessions and ran 41 unapproved queries; the eight-tread dashboard staircase — looks green, right thing, complete data, thresholds, audiences, tuned, owned and trusted — on which the panels with complete evidence climb from 12 to all 214; and the results, with alerts per shift cut from 486 to 138, detection time restated from 14 to 54 minutes, silence shown as grey and 14 benign test events proving the crisis panels move.

CY-EXPERT-099Expert Level · Security Monitoring

Dashboard Tuning Control Challenge

An expert-level course on challenging whether an organisation's security dashboards tell the truth and drive action, panel by panel, with evidence. Climb the dashboard staircase - eight treads from a board that merely looks green to one trusted in a crisis: the green dashboard problem and who decides from each board; every panel traced to its decision, query, source and window; freshness and coverage shown on the panel; thresholds justified as static, percentile, baseline or seasonal by replay; operational, management and assurance dashboards kept apart; tuning that cuts fatigue without opening blind spots; owners, review cadence and change control; and benign, pre-agreed test events that prove each crisis panel moves, evidenced to the risk committee.

18 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

Reconstruct a green-dashboard failure from definitions and data, establish who decides from each board, and audit every panel against criteria fixed in advance.
Write a decision statement for every panel, trace it to its query, source, window and cache, and compare its rendered value with a direct re-run.
Measure freshness and completeness per source against pre-set targets, handle late data by choosing the right time basis, and show data age and coverage on the panel.
Justify every threshold from its provenance, a policy or a replay of the data, using static, percentile, baseline and seasonal methods as the signal requires.

Price:৳12,000