Dashboards can give a false sense of security if used without assurance of the metrics':

1. A green dashboard is only as good as what it measures. 2. A stale measure can look reassuring and mean nothing. 3. Dashboards and metrics can give a false sense of security without continued assurance of their relevance. 4. So the answer is relevance. _Source: NIST SP 800-137, 'Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Federal Information Systems and Organizations'_