Security Overview Benchmark

c9 already explored a meaning-first redesign of the dashboard. It introduced stronger posture framing, significance-led narratives, and more opinionated guidance on what to inspect next.

What it did not yet do is test those ideas against the broader shape of current security dashboard practice.

This cycle closes that gap by asking:

• which c9 overview ideas hold up well against industry-standard patterns
• which important overview behaviors are still missing
• which sections deserve to carry forward into the next wireframe brief

Evaluate the strongest c9 overview-oriented wireframes and briefs against current industry patterns for first-load security dashboards, then define the strongest next-direction wireframe brief.

Primary scored set

Score these c9 overview artifacts as global-overview candidates:

1. home wireframe and matching brief
2. security wireframe and matching brief
3. inventory wireframe and matching brief

These are the only pages scored as first-load / global overview candidates.

Secondary pattern-source set

Use these c9 artifacts as idea banks only. They can contribute reusable sections or interaction patterns, but they are not scored as overview pages:

• sessions-significance-ledger
• api-key-risk-story
• alerting
• settings
• generic inventory list pages
• generic inventory detail pages

Benchmark source of truth

Use tmp/security-dashboard-global-overview-research.md as the standard for first-load security dashboard behavior and common layout patterns.

1. Cycle setup documents
2. Benchmark rubric for evaluating c9 overview work
3. Comparison notes for the primary scored set
4. Shortlist of winning patterns and sections
5. One synthesized wireframe brief for the next overview iteration

c9's strongest global-overview direction is not any single page. The best next brief combines:

• home for posture framing, top concerns, change, and stable-vs-unstable compression
• security for urgency grouping, explanation quality, and explicit trust gaps
• inventory for concentration framing and drill-path structure

The synthesized brief produced by this cycle defines that hybrid direction and closes the biggest benchmark gaps around concentration, trend visibility, and explicit first-click drill targets.

The first implementation of that direction now lives at /c10/wireframes/wf1/security-global-overview-v1/home.

The rest of the top-level shell now exists as security, inventory, alerting, and settings pages so the benchmark direction can be reviewed as a connected wireframe set rather than a single orphan page.

• all mockups
• implementing a new wireframe in this cycle
• changing c9 wireframes or briefs
• benchmarking non-overview pages as if they were global overview candidates
• promoting the research doc out of tmp/ during cycle setup

Mockups remain excluded from the evaluation. They may be glanced at for background context only, not used as benchmark candidates or synthesis targets.

c10 is successful if it makes it easy to answer:

• which c9 overview sections are strongest
• where c9 falls short of current industry patterns
• which sections should survive into the next overview brief
• why the synthesized brief is better than choosing a single c9 page wholesale

• Cycle created
• Plan drafted
• Primary and secondary c9 source set inventoried
• Primary overview artifacts scored against the benchmark rubric
• Gaps mapped to industry-standard patterns
• Winning sections and interaction patterns shortlisted
• Synthesized overview brief written
• First benchmark-driven overview wireframe built
• Remaining top-level dashboard pages built