How to achieve your business objectives with external data integration
After you have identified the business objectives for external data integration, you need to perform certain tasks to meet those objectives.
To elaborate on the required actions, let us take the example of the use-case scenarios to elaborate on the implementation of the external data integration.
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Import external data and view the data in CCS Dashboards without correlating to the CCS assets | You can import the external data and view the data by using CCS Dashboards. For the basic Dashboard and panel creation using imported data, you do not need to correlate the external data to the CCS assets. | To meet this business goal, you need to do the following:
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Import external data and view the data in CCS Dashboards in correlation with the CCS assets. | You can import the external data and view the data by using the CCS Dashboards in correlation with the CCS assets. By means of correlation, you basically establish an association between the external assets and the existing CCS assets. | To meet this business goal, you need to do the following:
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Import external data and use it for policy compliance | You can import the external data and use the data for policy compliance calculation in correlation with the CCS assets. By means of correlation, you basically establish an association between the external assets and the existing CCS assets. | To meet this business goal, you need to do the following:
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Import external data and use it for contributing to the CCS asset risk score | You can import the external data and use the data for risk score calculation in correlation with the CCS assets. You can use the imported data to correlate with the CCS assets and then calculate the risk score of the assets based on CVSS attributes and the risk score that is defined in the external data. | To meet this business goal, you need to do the following:
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