BY SPIRION
February 5, 2025
In our modern, data-driven landscape, organizations generate vast amounts of sensitive information. While data discovery, classification, and remediation provide valuable insights, confining these insights within a single security solution limits their potential. Sensitive data doesn’t exist in isolation, and neither should the intelligence surrounding it.
Security, compliance, and data governance teams require more than just scan results; they need a comprehensive view of their data landscape. This includes understanding environmental health, user activity, and trends that reveal risks and opportunities. However, not everyone who needs this intelligence can or should interact directly with security tools. This is why we created Spirion Enhanced Analytics (SEA).
Why Data Insights Need to Be More Accessible
Organizations increasingly invest in Business Intelligence (BI) as well as Security Information, and Event Management (SIEM) platforms to centralize and analyze their data. However, integrating security and compliance insights into these platforms can be challenging.
Traditional methods often involve manual report exports where data is generated within security tools and then imported into BI platforms. While this approach is widely supported, it limits insights to pre-formatted reports and requires repetitive manual work.
Alternatively, building API workflows allows for customized integrations tailored to specific needs, providing flexibility but demanding developer expertise, making it laborious for standard use cases.
The most seamless approach is direct integration, where security platforms connect natively to third-party intelligence tools. While effective, this method depends on compatibility between systems that are outside of an organization’s direct control.
SEA eliminates these challenges by offering an intuitive, out-of-the-box solution that streamlines security insights into your preferred BI or SIEM platform.
How Spirion Enhanced Analytics Solves the BI Challenge
SEA simplifies how organizations access and utilize their security insights. As a dedicated analysis server, it connects effortlessly with most BI and SIEM tools through SQL Analysis Services (SAS), removing the complexity of manual imports and custom integrations.
Why use Spirion Enhanced Analytics?
- Dedicated Data Storage: Query large volumes of Sensitive Data Platform (SDP) activity and result information through a separate connection to optimize the performance of operating SDP and SEA simultaneously.
- Rapid Query Response: Data warehouse processing ensures swift results from complex queries, saving time on manual data management.
- Historical Data Analysis: Analyze months or years of historical data to track progress and detect patterns, aiding in strategic risk reduction initiatives.
- BI & SIEM Compatibility: Analyze data in your preferred BI or SIEM platform, creating actionable reports and visualizations for informed decision-making.
- Intelligent Empowerment: Empower BI analysts to run their own analyses and visualizations, fostering a data-driven culture and impactful insights.
A Smarter Approach to Data Security Insights
Security teams need more than just alerts and scan results; they require context, trends, and actionable intelligence. SEA enables organizations to operationalize security insights by making them accessible to the right teams, in the right format, at the right time.
Whether you’re an analyst tracking risk trends, a compliance officer preparing for audits, or an executive making data-driven security decisions, Spirion Enhanced Analytics ensures your sensitive data intelligence isn’t locked inside a silo — it’s powering your business.
