IBM Security

Real security in a virtual world

Transforming cloud security from inhibitor to enabler

Nine out of 10 global CEOs view the cloud as critical to their business plans. And while the cloud can increase productivity with anywhere, anytime information access, it also introduces additional security risks that can become an inhibitor to cloud adoption. To mitigate risk to your cloud environment and data, a proactive approach to identity, application and threat protection should be embraced to enable confidence in your cloud deployments.

IBM Security solutions strengthen security in the cloud by helping to:

1. Administer, extend and authenticate identities and access to and from the cloud
2. Build, test and maintain secure cloud applications; monitor and audit enterprise databases and data-repositories
3. Prevent and defend against advanced threats with layered protection and analytics

You can realize cloud benefits within existing IT management constraints by having capabilities to:

• Detecting threats and reducing risk with automated audit and compliance reporting.
• Implement federated single sign-on and blocking unauthorized access to data and applications across multiple cloud services.
• Monitor cloud administrators via privileged identity management, audit reports and revalidation of preferred access privileges.
• Optimizing patch management for dynamic cloud environments to reduce attack threats and compliance risks.
• Building in visibility so you can gather and analyze security data from substantially more locations across the organization.

IBM Security Framework solutions

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