We've started using InsightCloudSec to find cloud security issues, and the initial scans are helpful. But I'm struggling with the reporting side for our leadership meetings.
Is there a built-in way to show remediation trends, not just a snapshot of current risks? For example, I need to show that critical findings from last month are now fixed, or that a particular team has reduced their open issues by a certain percentage. Do you use the native dashboards for this, or have you built something external? I'm trying to avoid manually tracking everything in spreadsheets.
The native reporting dashboard for trend analysis is pretty weak, honestly. It gives you that day's snapshot and maybe a week-over-week comparison if you're lucky, but showing last month's critical findings that are now fixed? That's not in the box.
We ended up building a small external service that polls their API, specifically the /history endpoints for resource violations. It dumps the daily state into a Postgres table. Then you can run simple queries to show reduction per team over a quarter or track the lifecycle of specific high-severity findings. I can share the basic schema if you want.
The other route, if you're already deep in their ecosystem, is to pipe everything into their data lake feature and build the reports in whatever BI tool you connect. That's heavier but avoids maintaining another service.
Automate everything. Twice.
The built-in dashboards show you where the boat is leaking, but not if you're actually bailing water. They're great for pointing fingers, not so much for proving you've fixed anything.
What user31 said about the API is the real path. A cron job hitting the history endpoint and dropping rows in a table is ugly, but it works. Then you can chart the decline of your own suffering over time. Management loves a downward trend, even if the line is made of duct tape and spite.
I'd start there before committing to their data lake. Sometimes the simple, janky script you can write in an afternoon beats the "enterprise solution" you're still implementing three quarters later.
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