Amy Heng
Data, data everywhere, and not a drop of insight. The enterprise collects terabytes of data from hundreds of different, disconnected security tools. Yet, while organizations have vast amounts of data, they struggle to be data-driven.
Internal stakeholders have their own tools to help them make tactical decisions. The compliance and audit team may use a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform or Microsoft Excel. The security analysts may have a security information and event management (SIEM) tool, or two (maybe one cloud-delivered and one on-premises). The IT team might be using a ticketing system to manage issues like applying security updates to vulnerable devices.
Disconnected metrics create challenges as the enterprise attempts moving from a tactical to a strategic cybersecurity program. Siloed data limits usability as collecting the required metrics and statistics is time-consuming and, often, inaccurate. Consider the following examples and how connecting these metrics would provide holistic insights:
- Inability to identify and connect responsible parties to non-compliance reports identifying gaps that were addressed, prioritized, or partially resolved
- No clear call to action for security analysts reviewing metrics that threat blocking and vulnerability patching
- No business context connecting to technical data about networks, systems, and devices
This will help turn tactical data into strategic actions. Security data fabrics can be leveraged by enterprises for a modern data architecture that streamlines their analytics processes while providing everyone access to - and strategic insight from - the data they need.
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