Context
This pension fund relies on multiple IT management and cybersecurity tools — AD, CMDB, MDM and EDR — each covering a specific scope. These tools operate independently: data is scattered and sometimes redundant, access is restricted to certain profiles, and no cross-functional view allows teams to query the entire estate quickly and easily.
Upon joining the organization, the CISO needed to quickly gain a comprehensive, risk-oriented view of the information system he was tasked with protecting. With a small team and significant operational workload, the challenge was clear: leverage existing tools and knowledge to secure the IS effectively, without rebuilding everything from scratch.
Challenges
The organization faced three concrete issues:
A siloed IT estate. Data was spread across several tools (AD, CMDB, MDM, EDR) with no consolidated global view. Consolidating all existing inventories into a centralized view guaranteeing completeness and reliability was a prerequisite.
Under-resourced teams. The team lacked the capacity to fully exploit data from each tool individually. They needed quick access to information without requiring direct access to each source tool.
A lack of business context. Technical data alone was not enough to effectively prioritize actions. The goal: identify vulnerabilities and prioritize them using business context for a risk-oriented inventory.
Why OverView
The organization chose OverView for three reasons: leveraging existing tools without requiring a complete rebuild, an overlay approach enabling reliable reporting without starting from scratch, and adaptability to organizational changes — fast, flexible, usable by all, and fostering cross-team collaboration.
Implementation
The deployment followed five key stages:
- Automatic data collection — OverView captures data via API from existing repositories
- Repository consolidation — Unification and automatic daily updates
- Contextualization and prioritization — Business context enrichment: asset location, sensitivity level, criticality
- Investigation and analysis — Full-data investigation that individual tools alone cannot provide
- Action plan management — Detected gap remediation and corrective action tracking
Results
| Benefit | Detail |
|---|---|
| Time savings | Centralized, visual access — no more navigating between tools or requesting specific access |
| Actionable data | Visual interface for quickly identifying areas of concern — 100% of the estate visible |
| Data-driven decisions | Cross-referencing technical data with business context → prioritization by real impact |
The CISO and his team can now investigate autonomously without depending on source tool access. Data is more readable, more actionable, and the shift from a static inventory to a true decision-making tool was immediate.
What the CISO says
"With OverView, we turn our IT data into a cyber decision-making lever. A single, intuitive access point — no expertise needed on the underlying tools."
— Christophe Pujol, CISO