Share public dashboard in OpenCTI 6.1

OpenCTI offers fully customizable dashboard functionality. The flexibility of OpenCTI’s dashboard ensures tailored and informative data visualization, fostering a comprehensive understanding of the platform’s knowledge, relationships, and activities.

However, you may want to share them with people outside your OpenCTI platform. To meet this need, the OpenCTI team has introduced a new feature: Public Dashboards.

Share dynamic snapshots of your dashboards directly with stakeholders; they can access it without needing an OpenCTI account. You can integrate public Dashboard wherever you want. This feature is perfect for top management!

Static configuration, dynamic data

The public dashboard can be seen as a dynamic snapshot of a custom dashboard’s configuration.

You can generate and share a public dashboard, then modify your custom dashboard it is based on without worrying about the impact on the public dashboards you’ve already created.

The data displayed, meanwhile, updates and evolves in real time as the data available in OpenCTI changes and adapts. In this way, the public dashboard remains constantly up-to-date, providing the most recent overview of available data.

However, while the data itself is mutable, the way it is displayed on the public dashboard is not. The display is set in read-only mode — this means that you, as the creator, get to decide how the data will be viewed by others. You have the power to determine its presentation, shaping the narrative and guiding the interpretation of the information.

We’ve worked diligently to ensure that users who wish to share a Dashboard can maintain control over the shared data. It’s crucial that the confidentiality of your data is preserved, and that you feel secure in sharing it. Therefore, we have put several levels of control measures in place:

• Firstly, you must have the capability to manage public dashboards if you wish to share one.

• Next, you must have the right to manage the custom Dashboard (the Manage access restriction button must be visible) from wich you want to generate a public Dashboard from.

• Finally, there are 2 levels of marking definition restriction:
  • When creating the Public Dashboard, you can define the maximum marking definition to limit the exposure of the data.
  • As a platform administrator, you can define, for each type of marking definition, the maximum level allowed to be shared through Public Dashboard, regardless of the definition set by users in their public dashboard. This configuration is done at the group level, in security > groups. Select a group and open the edition panel, then go to the tab Markings.

What are the steps to share a dashboard?

Step 1 : Configuration

• Click on the share button of your custom dashboard.
• The public dashboard creation panel opens.
• Give a name to the public dashboard, which generates an ID used in the URL.
• Choose the maximum marking level of the data to share (above which the data will not be displayed).

Once created, the public dashboard is listed at the bottom of the configuration panel, with its name, marking level, creation date, and various possible actions:

• Copy URL
• Enable/disable the public dashboard
• Delete the public dashboard

Step 2: simply send the link

You’ve been given the ability to easily share the public dashboard link with any individual of your choosing.

It’s worth noting that if there are any changes made to the maximum shareable marking level at the platform level, it will have a direct impact on all public dashboards that have already been created. Their maximum marking level will be adjusted in alignment with the new level set at the platform. This ensures that all dashboards remain consistent and up-to-date with the latest platform settings.

The data that is displayed within the public dashboard isn’t static. Instead, it will evolves and changes based on the information currently available in OpenCTI. This means that the dashboard will always showcase the most relevant and timely data, providing users with the most accurate information at any given time.

Conclusion

This new feature enables effortless information sharing, fostering effective communication and teamwork.

By publicly sharing dashboards while maintaining full control over the data, you can greatly improve collaboration with stakeholders. This empowers them to utilize data visualization in OpenCTI without requiring authentication on the platform!

If you have any question, request, comment or feedback to share with us, don’t hesitate to join us on Slack!