Security News > 2024 > August > To improve your cybersecurity posture, focus on the data

Data preparation is a rudimentary and necessary task, but it prevents engineers from focusing their time on the high-value tasks like identifying security gaps or storytelling that will improve the organization's cybersecurity posture.

A security data fabric approach helps with transforming raw data into analysis-ready datasets, streamlining data analysis workflows, enabling data quality and integrity, and ultimately facilitating a stronger security posture.

Are you trying to collect the data you need for threat hunting? For a compliance audit? For asset discovery and clean up? Each use case might require a different type of data for insights; some might require endpoint detection and response logs, while others require network data and traffic, or user and device information to get the full picture of what's happening at any given time.

No matter what approach you're taking, you - as the person or team in charge of the security data fabric initiative - need to reassure the other data owners that what you're doing with the data won't have any negative impact on whatever initiative they're working on.

Once you've located the needed data sources and who's in charge of them, and gotten their buy-in, the next step is figuring out how to get the data into your security data fabric platform.

When you're first starting the journey to identify the data sources you need and work with data owner to access these data sources, it's important to start incrementally.

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