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Security data analysis and reporting

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Dynatrace allows you to accomplish various analysis and reporting tasks on top of the security data on Grail, helping you to maintain consistent and efficient communication within DevSecOps teams and their stakeholders. Leveraging native apps, such as Dashboards and Notebooks, you can visualize data and find answers to security-related questions.

You can start exploring security data from scratch or use out-of-the-box templates, integrated into Dynatrace security apps such as Third-party vulnerabilities, so you can remain in the context of the analysis flow.

Explore data from scratch

To start exploring security data

  1. On the third-party vulnerabilities list or details page, select Open with….
  2. Select Dashboards or Notebooks.
  3. In the Choose a dashboard/notebook… menu, select Open blank(…), and then select Go.
  4. In Select destination, select an existing document or create a new one.
  5. Select Add.

Now you can start analyzing the vulnerability data available on Grail using the Security queries provided as DQL query snippets.

  1. In Dashboards or Notebooks, select .
  2. Select one of the snippets in Security.

Some examples of tasks that you can accomplish with the Security queries are listed below.

Visualize exposure to vulnerabilities

  • Summarize vulnerabilities by status:

    Summarize vulnerabilities by status

  • Track vulnerability counts over time:

    Track vulnerability counts over time

Prioritize remediation efforts

  • List top vulnerabilities by risk assessment:

    List top vulnerabilities by risk assessment

  • List top affected entities by vulnerability count:

    List top affected entities by vulnerability count

Communicate findings to owning teams

  • Relate findings to responsible teams:

    Relate findings to responsible teams

  • List teams with the most vulnerabilities:

    List teams with the most vulnerabilities

Out-of-the-box templates

With integrated reporting, Dynatrace helps you to quickly start from fully customizable templates that already include the most interesting insights and allows you to fine-tune them for the specific needs of your organization and share the results with shareholders.

Our out-of-the-box dashboard and notebook templates make it easy to complete various security reporting use cases, some of which are listed below.

Visualize the risk and impact of vulnerabilities

With Threat exposure template for Dashboards, you're provided with immediate answers to the vulnerability exposure risk question and an overview of the potential impact on your environment.

Sample template:

template-dashboard-example

To start generating Dashboard reports

  1. On the Third-party vulnerabilities page, select Open with….
  2. Select Dashboards.
  3. In the Choose a dashboard… menu, select Threat exposure template, and then select Go.
  4. In Select destination, select an existing document or create a new one.
  5. Select Add.
  1. On the details page of a third-party vulnerability, select Open with….
  2. Select Dashboards.
  3. In the Choose a dashboard… menu, select Threat exposure template, and then select Go.
  4. In Select destination, select an existing document or create a new one.
  5. Select Add.

When generating the reports from templates, the filters and the context of the environment persist automatically in the generated dashboards.

Analyze the impact of vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation efforts

With Threat exposure template for Notebooks, you're provided with an additional level of detail, including the exact areas at risk due to the vulnerability threat, as well as the responsible teams, which allows you to prepare an efficient remediation plan.

Sample template:

template-notebook-example

To start generating Notebook reports

  1. On the Third-party vulnerabilities page, select Open with….
  2. Select Notebooks.
  3. In the Choose a notebook… menu, select Threat exposure template, and then select Go.
  4. In Select destination, select an existing document or create a new one.
  5. Select Add.
  1. On the details page of a third-party vulnerability, select Open with….
  2. Select Notebooks.
  3. In the Choose a notebook… menu, select Threat exposure template, and then select Go.
  4. In Select destination, select an existing document or create a new one.
  5. Select Add.

When generating the reports from templates, the filters and the context of the environment persist automatically in the generated notebooks.