Using academic research materials determine what Cyber Security Metrics are and which ones are most important to an Information Security team at an institution of higher education such as the University of Cincinnati. Prepare a 2-3 page paper in which you explain the 4+ top metrics you would use to show the CISO and senior leadership of the university how things are going and then show me the graphics you would use to share your information out.
Here's one that a corporate entity may use: #of Workstations with Active Malware by Region and by date of how long the Malware has been active waiting for Deskside Support to clean it. As part of this metric we also want to show that our tools work so we add the total amount of Workstation malware cleaned by Symantec/Intel Security each day.
When creating the graphs to tell your story make sure that you understand there are 3 very important colors to Senior Management - Red, Yellow and Green. Each of these colors tell a story without any words needing to be said.