Past can be prologue. But can you really learn any lessons from historical data when your time range is too short? In cybersecurity, if you don’t have enough metrics or data, you can’t make accurate, actionable conclusions. Short-term events can also skew your perspective or have outsized impact on decision-making without the proper context. As a result, any actions to improve your security posture may be misplaced.

“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill so famously said.

Increasingly, DataDome customers require extended analysis on the threats they’re exposed to in order to better understand their position within and across a specific sector—and its evolution over time. Operators may want to go back and examine a specific security event from six months or more than a year ago based on an executive’s request or a similar event that may indicate a troubling pattern.

Since DataDome is committed to helping our customers understand their attack landscape better, we’re happy to announce the availability of long-term trend reporting in our threat dashboard for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus plan customers.

What does long-term mean at DataDome? Is that 30 days or up to a year (like alternative solutions)? No, we’re providing up to two years of historical trend data.

Benefits of Historical Trend Data

Access to two years of historical data gives customers a number of compelling benefits at no additional cost, including:

1. Strategic Decision-Making: Long-term trend data helps customers identify patterns and seasonal fluctuations in bot activity. This allows them to predict potential future threats and allocate resources strategically, enhancing overall cybersecurity postures.
2. Performance Benchmarking: Customers can use historical data to benchmark their security performance over time. This shows the effectiveness of their current bot management strategy and highlights areas that need improvement.
3. Threat Intelligence: Access to historical trend data provides insights into how bot behaviors and attack vectors evolve. This information helps customers stay ahead of emerging threats by adjusting their defenses accordingly.
4. Risk Assessment: By analyzing long-term trends, customers can assess the overall risk posed by bots to their specific industry or business, allowing them to develop more targeted risk mitigation strategies.
5. Regulatory Compliance: Some industries require businesses to maintain security logs for compliance reasons. Long-term data aids in demonstrating compliance with regulatory standards by providing a comprehensive view of how they have managed bot-related risks over time.

Transparency directly in the dashboard for important metrics—like false positive rates and CAPTCHA challenge solve times—gives customers an accurate, real-time view of their digital properties. Customers love the simple and easy way we present their threat data, as well as how fast they can dive into the details and then save dashboard views for future analysis. In only a few clicks, they can share reports in a variety of formats with other teams and stakeholders.

Identify Threats with DataDome’s Easy-to-Use, Customized Reporting

DataDome has also excelled at out-of-the-box and customized reporting for some time. In fact, Forrester recently recognized us with a “superior” score in both of these evaluation categories in the latest Forrester Wave™ Q3 2024 report. This new capability extends our leadership position, and more importantly, helps our customers understand and mitigate the increasingly sophisticated threats they face.

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