Scores on Controls Scorecards

Viewing Controls Scorecards

To open a Controls Scorecards, click the star icon in the sidebar and then choose a scorecard from the list. If no scorecards exist, follow the example in Building Controls Scorecards to create one.

Select a Controls Scorecard

Controls Score Trend

Scorecards show you the change in score over a selected period. By seeing the trend, you can immediately see if your initiatives are on track. Depending on the direction of change, you can decide to continue on the current trajectory or take action to improve outcomes.

A scorecard showing changes across a selected time period

To choose the look-back period for the data, click a duration button at the top of the page. You can choose from 7 days, 1 month, 3 months, or a year.

The chart is updated to match the look-back period and the total change in percentage points over the period is shown on the overall score and the dashboard scores.

The overall score and dashboard scores are always today’s score and aren’t affected by the date selector. Only the points change during the time period is changed by the range selection.

Trend Data Sampling

Score chart

The x-axis of the points on the chart show the date at which the score is sampled. A straight line is drawn between these points as a linear interpolation. The resolution of the score sampling depends on the selected look-back period.

For example, if you select 1 month, the chart uses scores from the Monday of each week. If you select 1 year, scores are taken from first day of each month. By spacing out the data points in this way, the chart can still give a picture of the score trend, whilst performing quick data retrieval.

Trend Arrows

The trend arrow shows the difference between the current score and the score from the look-back period.

For example, if you select 1 week, the trend is the difference between the score today and the score from a week ago, calculated through simple subtraction. If say the score today is 52% and the score last week was 47%, then the points difference is an increase of 5.

Overall performance score

The Overall Performance is the mean average of the included dashboard scores. This is your bottom-line assessment of your current cybersecurity controls performance.

Refer to How is the Overall Performance calculated? for more information.

Dashboard scores

The Dashboard performance scores section contains a tile for each included dashboard showing its score, name, and RAG status.

Dashboard scores shown on a Scorecard

• Click Add Dashboard to add another dashboard to the scorecard. Refer to Building the Controls Scorecard for more details.
• Click a dashboard tile to open that dashboard.