Dashboard settings
The Dashboard settings page helps the administrator to configure the parameters to calculate the total savings by using the Xcitium products for each component and variables like % of investigation, Time to analyze the threat and Time to Investigate in each available component and hourly cost of a SOC analyst in dollars.
- You can increase or decrease the value simply by using the arrow up or down button next to the value.
| Executive Dashboard Calculations - Analysis Variables | |
| Column Heading | Description |
| Component | List all the available component names. |
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% of
Investigation
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It represents the percentage of alerts that are subject to the investigation
among all alerts.
For example, if the Antivirus generated 100 alerts, but only 8 of them were
critical and the remaining 92 were noisy data, the rate would be 8%.
The system administrator can also change this rate on average.
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Time to
Analyze (h)
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The value Time to Analyze will be always smaller than the time to investigate. It means that the analyst effort for the first seeing the critical alerts. It represents the time taken for detecting, investigating, classifying the incidents based on priority and communicating it will the SOC team and relevant stakeholders. |
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Time to
Investigate (h)
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The value Time to Investigate is the time, the analyst spends depending for a true positive alert to see the malicious file and its effects. It involves the confirmation of incident and its severity assessment, isolation and containment of the affected systems/networks, collecting evidence and notifying the stake holders to escalate for investigation and remediation. It also includes documentation and root cause analysis. |
SOC Analyst Cost ($/h)
It is hourly cost of an analyst in dollars (Default value is $50 per hour).
Reset Options
If any field is updated, the UI shows the Xcitium suggested values with the below message, and 'Reset' button is seen with message:
'Default settings reflect overall average numbers per each setting. Adjusting according to your company environment may increase ROI dashboard consistency'.
Click 'Save' to reflect the changes.