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PROJECT_03 / Security platform integration

Northbound API

Making processed security data useful beyond the product boundary.

Role
API & dashboard developer
Domain
OT security integrations
Timeline
2025
Type
Professional proof of concept

STACKNext.js · Flask · API design · SINEC Security Monitor

01

Overview

SINEC Security Monitor already processes assets, security events, and alerts. This proof of concept explored how selected information could be reused outside its primary application interface.

My contribution

I defined and developed API interfaces inside SINEC Security Monitor and built a companion Next.js / Flask dashboard to demonstrate external data consumption.

02

The problem

A product interface is not the only place security information is useful. External dashboards and downstream workflows need structured access to processed data without depending on the internal presentation layer.

03

Engineering approach

I mapped the information needed by external consumers, defined the interface, retrieved data through the APIs and supporting database interactions, and displayed it in a separate dashboard.

  1. 01Assets / events / alerts
  2. 02API contracts
  3. 03Data access
  4. 04Dashboard / downstream workflow

Technical decisions

Demonstrate a complete data path

A working dashboard makes the API's usability visible to stakeholders rather than leaving the proof of concept at an endpoint definition.

Preserve security context

Asset, event, and alert relationships remain meaningful when data is presented outside the core product.

04

Technical challenges

01

Crossing the product boundary

Problem
External consumers should not need to understand internal product details.
Approach
Expose selected processed information through structured interfaces.
Result
Give consumers a practical retrieval path.
02

Proving usability

Problem
Data extraction alone does not demonstrate an integration workflow.
Approach
Build a Next.js and Flask dashboard using the exposed data.
Result
Prepare a stakeholder-facing proof of concept.
05

Result

The working proof of concept showed that processed SINEC information could be queried and surfaced in an external operational view, establishing a direction for dashboard and pipeline integration.

06

Lessons learned

  • API design starts with what an external consumer needs to understand.
  • A small end-to-end demonstration is a useful way to validate an integration idea.
  • Security data loses value if its asset and event context is stripped away.