Case Study

Design and development of reporting and data analysis tools

Consultant working at the Alter Solutions office

Industry
  • Banking & Finance (a major French commercial bank)

 

Challenge
  • Design and develop reporting and analysis tools for the bank's security and CSIRT teams.

Context

We worked for a leading international banking group specialised in retail banking, financial services and investment solutions. We were asked to design and develop reporting and analysis tools for the bank's security and CSIRT teams.


Solution

  • Analysis of the security and CSIRT teams’ needs and definition of the key performance indicators to be monitored;
  • Design and development of a data visualisation platform based on the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana);
  • Creation of dynamic dashboards for in-depth analysis of security data;
  • Development of Python scripts to automate the processing of security data.

Technologies

  • ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

  • Python


Keys to success

  1. Technical expertise in IT security and the development of reporting and analysis tools;
  2. Ability to understand the needs of security teams and propose appropriate solutions;
  3. Working closely with existing teams to ensure that the tools are properly integrated into their working environment.