Transforming Cybersecurity and Compliance Through a Unified Security Data Fabric
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In each episode, Robin Das, Executive Director at Comcast under the DataBee team, explores the CISO’s role through the position’s relationship with other security stakeholders, from regulators and the Board of Directors to internal personnel and outside vendors.
In today’s cybersecurity landscape, security teams face an increasingly unmanageable challenge: more tools, more data, more dashboards—and less time. Tool sprawl and fragmented telemetry make it harder for teams to detect threats, maintain compliance, and demonstrate business value. As organizations grow, so does the complexity of the data they must protect, monitor, and understand.
A security data fabric offers a path out of this complexity. By unifying, normalizing, and enriching data across disparate systems, a security data fabric shifts organizations from reactive processes to proactive, data driven operations. DataBee, an enterprise-scale security data fabric, helps security, risk, and compliance teams align around a shared data foundation—improving visibility, accelerating remediation, and strengthening governance.
Why Organizations Need a Security Data Fabric Today
Security teams are drowning in volume and variety—of tools, platforms, and logs. While individual security products often have sophisticated dashboards, each one only reflects a slice of the environment. The true value lies in the ability to stitch all of those insights together.
A security data fabric creates a single source of truth, drawing insights from across security, IT, business systems, and cloud environments. This unified viewpoint equips organizations to drive:
- Continuous controls monitoring
- More accurate vulnerability and asset management
- Improved threat detection
- Better executive reporting and governance
- Fast, automated remediation
For many enterprises, the most immediately valuable outcome is always on compliance visibility—an up to the minute posture that’s impossible to achieve through manual reports or siloed tools.
Best Practices for Building a Security Data Fabric—and How DataBee Delivers
DataBee’s architecture follows a proven set of steps designed to create high quality, enriched, and ready to use data.
1. Ingest: Bringing in Security + Business Context
DataBee integrates with more than 300 data feeds, and new feeds can be onboarded quickly.
A strong data fabric doesn’t just ingest traditional security telemetry. It also incorporates business context, such as:
- Organizational hierarchy
- System ownership
- Asset relationships
- Workforce structure
This business data is essential for understanding risk and determining who is responsible for remediation.
2. Data Transformation: Standardizing with OCSF
Once ingested, DataBee transforms incoming data streams using mapping files and converts them into the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)—a vendor-neutral, open-source standard.
Standardization ensures data is:
- Portable
- Consistent
- Usable across teams
- Accessible to analytics, AI, and governance tools
With OCSF, DataBee gives organizations clean, structured telemetry ready for any downstream use case.
3. Data Preparation with Entity Resolution: Creating a Unified View
This is where DataBee differentiates itself.
DataBee’s patent pending Entity Resolution technology stitches together diverse attributes from multiple sources—email, employee ID, NT login, device information, and more—into a single, coherent identity.
Instead of logging activity by isolated identifiers, DataBee builds a complete timeline of events around an entity (a user, device, or asset). Analysts no longer have to manually pivot between datasets; the context is available instantly and continuously.
This capability helps:
- Eliminate blind spots
- Reduce investigation time
- Improve accuracy
- Enhance correlation across systems
After enrichment, the data is ready for scalable storage.
4. Data Storage: No Lock-In, Ever
DataBee does not require proprietary storage. The enriched, standardized data is stored in the customer’s preferred environment—such as:
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- AWS S3
- Azure Blob Storage
Your data stays your data. DataBee simply ensures it’s clean, connected, correlated and usable.
Outcomes: What a Security Data Fabric Makes Possible
Once normalized data streams into the fabric in real time, organizations can unlock a wide range of security and compliance outcomes.
Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM)
DataBee gives organizations always on compliance visibility, allowing stakeholders to see their posture updated to the minute.
Stronger Asset and Vulnerability Management
Most vulnerability programs break down at step one: identifying the actual owner of an asset.
DataBee solves this by:
- Filling CMDB gaps with live telemetry
- Using entity resolution to infer ownership
- Recommending likely owners for unassigned devices
- Updating the CMDB automatically once ownership is confirmed
Actionable, Not Just Informational, Dashboards
DataBee’s dashboards go beyond reporting—they support remediation. Analysts can investigate issues and take action directly within the platform.
Why a Security Data Fabric Is Foundational for Compliance
For large enterprises, scalable compliance is impossible without a unified view of data. DataBee provides the foundation needed to:
- Sustain continuous monitoring
- Maintain accurate inventories
- Map controls to real evidence
- Reduce audit burden
- Demonstrate the value of cybersecurity investments
At enterprise scale, this foundation becomes not just beneficial—it becomes essential.
Why Partner with DataBee
Organizations choose DataBee because it is built for scale and designed around customer success.
By partnering with DataBee, enterprises gain:
1. Proven Scalability
DataBee is engineered to support the massive, complex environments of large global organizations.
2. End to End Data Quality Management
DataBee handles pipeline creation, documentation, and quality control—removing the operational burden from your team.
3. Continuous Innovation
Customers benefit not only from the features available today, but also from DataBee’s forward looking roadmap and rapid pace of innovation.
4. Robust Professional Services
DataBee’s services team helps customers implement frameworks, customize their data environments, and achieve their compliance and remediation goals.
5. A True Partnership Model
DataBee works alongside clients as an extension of their team—focused on delivering outcomes, not just tools.
Conclusion
A security data fabric is no longer a nice-to-have—it is a foundational requirement for organizations seeking to modernize compliance, reduce risk, improve visibility, and streamline security operations.
DataBee delivers this foundation with scale, precision, and enterprise-ready capabilities. By unifying data, enriching it with entity resolution, and enabling real-time action, DataBee helps organizations accelerate remediation, enhance compliance, and unlock the business value of cybersecurity.
Additional Resources:
In today’s cybersecurity landscape, security teams face an increasingly unmanageable challenge: more tools, more data, more dashboards—and less time. Tool sprawl and fragmented telemetry make it harder for teams to detect threats, maintain compliance, and demonstrate business value. As organizations grow, so does the complexity of the data they must protect, monitor, and understand.
A security data fabric offers a path out of this complexity. By unifying, normalizing, and enriching data across disparate systems, a security data fabric shifts organizations from reactive processes to proactive, data driven operations. DataBee, an enterprise-scale security data fabric, helps security, risk, and compliance teams align around a shared data foundation—improving visibility, accelerating remediation, and strengthening governance.
Why Organizations Need a Security Data Fabric Today
Security teams are drowning in volume and variety—of tools, platforms, and logs. While individual security products often have sophisticated dashboards, each one only reflects a slice of the environment. The true value lies in the ability to stitch all of those insights together.
A security data fabric creates a single source of truth, drawing insights from across security, IT, business systems, and cloud environments. This unified viewpoint equips organizations to drive:
- Continuous controls monitoring
- More accurate vulnerability and asset management
- Improved threat detection
- Better executive reporting and governance
- Fast, automated remediation
For many enterprises, the most immediately valuable outcome is always on compliance visibility—an up to the minute posture that’s impossible to achieve through manual reports or siloed tools.
Best Practices for Building a Security Data Fabric—and How DataBee Delivers
DataBee’s architecture follows a proven set of steps designed to create high quality, enriched, and ready to use data.
1. Ingest: Bringing in Security + Business Context
DataBee integrates with more than 300 data feeds, and new feeds can be onboarded quickly.
A strong data fabric doesn’t just ingest traditional security telemetry. It also incorporates business context, such as:
- Organizational hierarchy
- System ownership
- Asset relationships
- Workforce structure
This business data is essential for understanding risk and determining who is responsible for remediation.
2. Data Transformation: Standardizing with OCSF
Once ingested, DataBee transforms incoming data streams using mapping files and converts them into the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)—a vendor-neutral, open-source standard.
Standardization ensures data is:
- Portable
- Consistent
- Usable across teams
- Accessible to analytics, AI, and governance tools
With OCSF, DataBee gives organizations clean, structured telemetry ready for any downstream use case.
3. Data Preparation with Entity Resolution: Creating a Unified View
This is where DataBee differentiates itself.
DataBee’s patent pending Entity Resolution technology stitches together diverse attributes from multiple sources—email, employee ID, NT login, device information, and more—into a single, coherent identity.
Instead of logging activity by isolated identifiers, DataBee builds a complete timeline of events around an entity (a user, device, or asset). Analysts no longer have to manually pivot between datasets; the context is available instantly and continuously.
This capability helps:
- Eliminate blind spots
- Reduce investigation time
- Improve accuracy
- Enhance correlation across systems
After enrichment, the data is ready for scalable storage.
4. Data Storage: No Lock-In, Ever
DataBee does not require proprietary storage. The enriched, standardized data is stored in the customer’s preferred environment—such as:
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- AWS S3
- Azure Blob Storage
Your data stays your data. DataBee simply ensures it’s clean, connected, correlated and usable.
Outcomes: What a Security Data Fabric Makes Possible
Once normalized data streams into the fabric in real time, organizations can unlock a wide range of security and compliance outcomes.
Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM)
DataBee gives organizations always on compliance visibility, allowing stakeholders to see their posture updated to the minute.
Stronger Asset and Vulnerability Management
Most vulnerability programs break down at step one: identifying the actual owner of an asset.
DataBee solves this by:
- Filling CMDB gaps with live telemetry
- Using entity resolution to infer ownership
- Recommending likely owners for unassigned devices
- Updating the CMDB automatically once ownership is confirmed
Actionable, Not Just Informational, Dashboards
DataBee’s dashboards go beyond reporting—they support remediation. Analysts can investigate issues and take action directly within the platform.
Why a Security Data Fabric Is Foundational for Compliance
For large enterprises, scalable compliance is impossible without a unified view of data. DataBee provides the foundation needed to:
- Sustain continuous monitoring
- Maintain accurate inventories
- Map controls to real evidence
- Reduce audit burden
- Demonstrate the value of cybersecurity investments
At enterprise scale, this foundation becomes not just beneficial—it becomes essential.
Why Partner with DataBee
Organizations choose DataBee because it is built for scale and designed around customer success.
By partnering with DataBee, enterprises gain:
1. Proven Scalability
DataBee is engineered to support the massive, complex environments of large global organizations.
2. End to End Data Quality Management
DataBee handles pipeline creation, documentation, and quality control—removing the operational burden from your team.
3. Continuous Innovation
Customers benefit not only from the features available today, but also from DataBee’s forward looking roadmap and rapid pace of innovation.
4. Robust Professional Services
DataBee’s services team helps customers implement frameworks, customize their data environments, and achieve their compliance and remediation goals.
5. A True Partnership Model
DataBee works alongside clients as an extension of their team—focused on delivering outcomes, not just tools.
Conclusion
A security data fabric is no longer a nice-to-have—it is a foundational requirement for organizations seeking to modernize compliance, reduce risk, improve visibility, and streamline security operations.
DataBee delivers this foundation with scale, precision, and enterprise-ready capabilities. By unifying data, enriching it with entity resolution, and enabling real-time action, DataBee helps organizations accelerate remediation, enhance compliance, and unlock the business value of cybersecurity.
Additional Resources:
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