The default dashboard in your CSPM tool is almost certainly wrong for you.
Not wrong as in broken. Wrong as in optimized for someone else's environment, someone else's priorities, someone else's risk tolerance. Out of the box, you get a generic view designed to look impressive in a demo. What you need is a view designed to help you actually fix things.
Here's what we typically see when we first log into a CSPM that hasn't been tuned: hundreds, sometimes thousands of critical and high-risk alerts. You can't even make sense of it. The dashboard is a wall of red and orange that's been that way for months. Alert fatigue is a design choice. You can make different choices.
Building Views That Work
We've built 25 to 35 custom discovery views for every environment we manage. That's not overkill. That's what it takes to see what matters. Some examples:
