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Breakdown Widget on the Root Cause Dashboard

Learn how to use the Breakdown widget to deconstruct topline metrics into their underlying drivers and track performance against historical and industry benchmarks

Updated over a month ago

overview

The Breakdown widget helps you shift analysis from:

A single overall risk value
to
What are the drivers behind this value?

For each topline metric, the widget visualizes its distribution across business assets or maturity functions, alongside temporal and industry benchmarks.

The widget provides an in-depth analysis of metric shifts, identifying the exact parameters and the scale of change.


What the Breakdown Widget Shows

The widget supports the following topline metrics:

  • What the Breakdown Widget Shows

    • Likelihood, Cost of Breach, & Exposure: Detailed by business asset.

    • Maturity: Analyzed by NIST functions (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover).

Select the metrics displayed in the widget area to address specific analytical objectives.
For example:

  • Which assets have the greatest influence on Cost of Breach or Exposure?

  • Which NIST functions exhibit the strongest maturity progress or the most significant operational gaps?

  • Where did we see the biggest improvement or deterioration in Business Asset since the last period?


Time‑Based Comparison

The Breakdown widget operates within a defined time frame, as selected by the user.

For the selected time frame, the widget visualizes:

  • Values by business asset or function for a selected point on the chart

  • Comparison to:

    • The previous period

    • The industry benchmark

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