How DataBee Enhances the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) for Smarter Security Insights
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How DataBee Builds on OCSF to Deliver Security Data Insights for Smarter, Scalable Cybersecurity
In today’s complex security landscape, data comes in all shapes and sizes—from logs and alerts to telemetry and threat intelligence. These data feeds arrive in different formats, structures, and protocols, making it difficult for security teams to extract value quickly. Without a consistent schema across tools, analysts spend more time normalizing data than detecting threats.
That’s why the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) is such a game-changer—and why DataBee has adopted and extended it to help clients unlock the full potential of their security data.
OCSF: A Foundation for Standardized Security Data
The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) is a collaborative, open-source initiative that provides a standard schema for common security events. It addresses one of the core challenges in cybersecurity: the lack of consistent formats and data models across vendors.
Without OCSF, organizations must manually normalize and harmonize data from disparate sources—firewalls, EDRs, cloud platforms, and more—before they can even begin analysis. This slows down threat detection, increases operational overhead, and limits visibility across the enterprise.
OCSF solves this by offering:
- A vendor-agnostic schema for security and related data
- Extensibility to support custom fields and use cases
- Interoperability across tools and platforms
DataBee: Extending OCSF into a Unified Security Data Fabric
DataBee builds on the OCSF framework to deliver a security data fabric architecture that integrates, normalizes, and enriches data from across your environment. By aligning with OCSF, DataBee ensures that all incoming data—regardless of source—is transformed into a consistent, queryable format.
DataBee maps client data to the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) by transforming and standardizing diverse security data into a unified schema. Here's how it works:
- Extended OCSF Schema: DataBee uses an extended version of OCSF, which means it builds upon the standard schema to accommodate additional fields or structures that are specific to client needs
- Normalization and Mapping: Incoming data from various sources (e.g., firewalls, endpoints, cloud services) gets normalized—this involves parsing and restructuring the data to match the OCSF schema. This step ensures consistency across different data formats and vendors
- Entity Correlation: DataBee employs patented entity correlation logic to link related data points across different systems. For example, it can associate a user identity with device activity and network traffic, even if those data points come from different tools
- Asset Owner Discovery: DataBee also includes tools for asset owner discovery, helping to identify who owns or is responsible for a particular asset involved in a security event
The result is a unified, time-series dataset that can be used for analytics, compliance, and business intelligence. This dataset is OCSF-compliant and enriched with contextual metadata.
Key Benefits of DataBee’s OCSF-Based Architecture:
- Data Normalization at Scale: DataBee standardizes diverse datasets from a wide range of security tools, helping reduce inconsistencies and redundancies. This enables faster, more accurate analysis and reduces the burden on security teams.
- Enhanced Security Analytics: With normalized data, DataBee enables advanced correlation and pattern recognition across sources. This helps uncover threats and anomalies that single threaded analysis might miss.
- Time-Series Enrichment: With DataBee’s patented entity resolution, DataBee creates a unified timeline of security telemetry with business context, enabling easier event tracking across systems and delivering time-based insights.
Conclusion: OCSF is the Standard, DataBee is the Solution
The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework provides the foundation for consistent, interoperable security data. DataBee builds on that foundation, delivering a powerful, flexible, and scalable data fabric that helps organizations detect threats quickly, manage costs, and adapt to evolving risks.
With DataBee and OCSF, your security data becomes a strategic asset—not a bottleneck.
How DataBee Builds on OCSF to Deliver Security Data Insights for Smarter, Scalable Cybersecurity
In today’s complex security landscape, data comes in all shapes and sizes—from logs and alerts to telemetry and threat intelligence. These data feeds arrive in different formats, structures, and protocols, making it difficult for security teams to extract value quickly. Without a consistent schema across tools, analysts spend more time normalizing data than detecting threats.
That’s why the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) is such a game-changer—and why DataBee has adopted and extended it to help clients unlock the full potential of their security data.
OCSF: A Foundation for Standardized Security Data
The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) is a collaborative, open-source initiative that provides a standard schema for common security events. It addresses one of the core challenges in cybersecurity: the lack of consistent formats and data models across vendors.
Without OCSF, organizations must manually normalize and harmonize data from disparate sources—firewalls, EDRs, cloud platforms, and more—before they can even begin analysis. This slows down threat detection, increases operational overhead, and limits visibility across the enterprise.
OCSF solves this by offering:
- A vendor-agnostic schema for security and related data
- Extensibility to support custom fields and use cases
- Interoperability across tools and platforms
DataBee: Extending OCSF into a Unified Security Data Fabric
DataBee builds on the OCSF framework to deliver a security data fabric architecture that integrates, normalizes, and enriches data from across your environment. By aligning with OCSF, DataBee ensures that all incoming data—regardless of source—is transformed into a consistent, queryable format.
DataBee maps client data to the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) by transforming and standardizing diverse security data into a unified schema. Here's how it works:
- Extended OCSF Schema: DataBee uses an extended version of OCSF, which means it builds upon the standard schema to accommodate additional fields or structures that are specific to client needs
- Normalization and Mapping: Incoming data from various sources (e.g., firewalls, endpoints, cloud services) gets normalized—this involves parsing and restructuring the data to match the OCSF schema. This step ensures consistency across different data formats and vendors
- Entity Correlation: DataBee employs patented entity correlation logic to link related data points across different systems. For example, it can associate a user identity with device activity and network traffic, even if those data points come from different tools
- Asset Owner Discovery: DataBee also includes tools for asset owner discovery, helping to identify who owns or is responsible for a particular asset involved in a security event
The result is a unified, time-series dataset that can be used for analytics, compliance, and business intelligence. This dataset is OCSF-compliant and enriched with contextual metadata.
Key Benefits of DataBee’s OCSF-Based Architecture:
- Data Normalization at Scale: DataBee standardizes diverse datasets from a wide range of security tools, helping reduce inconsistencies and redundancies. This enables faster, more accurate analysis and reduces the burden on security teams.
- Enhanced Security Analytics: With normalized data, DataBee enables advanced correlation and pattern recognition across sources. This helps uncover threats and anomalies that single threaded analysis might miss.
- Time-Series Enrichment: With DataBee’s patented entity resolution, DataBee creates a unified timeline of security telemetry with business context, enabling easier event tracking across systems and delivering time-based insights.
Conclusion: OCSF is the Standard, DataBee is the Solution
The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework provides the foundation for consistent, interoperable security data. DataBee builds on that foundation, delivering a powerful, flexible, and scalable data fabric that helps organizations detect threats quickly, manage costs, and adapt to evolving risks.
With DataBee and OCSF, your security data becomes a strategic asset—not a bottleneck.
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