The Need for Security Intelligence

Your enterprise is producing more data than ever before. It’s being shared faster and more widely than in the past. Additionally, those who are looking to steal that data are becoming more sophisticated and stealthy than ever before. Clearly, a more responsive, more integrated, analytics-driven approach to security is needed.

Building Security Intelligence

IBM believes not only in building security into all of your business and IT processes, but also in assembling a complete view of your overall security posture. To do this, we enable you to pull in data from across the operational pillars of your organization so that you can focus on those threats that matter the most to your business.

Data Explosion – Challenge and Opportunity

The explosion of data presents inevitable challenges for data security and privacy. However, the increasing amount of data also presents us with opportunities as we find smarter ways to derive meaningful, and actionable insights from that data. IBM’s security intelligence approach can help organizations assemble a more complete picture of their security posture. By collecting large volumes of data and events, and synthesizing that into a smaller number of priority events to be investigated, IBM believes that clients can not only understand more, they can be more effective and responsive, reducing risk and costs.

THINK Integrated.

If security is going to be successfully built into your organization, it needs to integrate with your existing technology infrastructure and investments. Additionally, with integration comes a breaking down of “security silo’s” which can contribute to increased risk and uncertainty. For example, vulnerability data discovered in a core application should feed into your network protection strategy, rather than having these tools remain disparate and disconnected. Finally, integration isn't just about technology, it's about understanding your business processes, and how security can drive and support innovative and transformative initiatives.

IBM Security Services

Pragmatic and effective security relies on the right global expertise. IBM’s global security experts and consultants can chart a path with you to develop a sound security program which includes security assessments, penetration testing, the identification and prioritization of risk, and even the implementation (or hosting) and management of security technology and processes. IBM has security operations centers all over the world to monitor the evolving threat landscape to help you stay ahead of the threat.

Virtualization security

While there are many virtualization security options, it is critical to understand that the true value of security is not in point products that address virtualization only, but in solutions that extend existing security measures to the new risks exposed by virtualized environments.

Organizations interested in reducing cost and complexity, while achieving enterprise-grade security, must pay close attention to how their security infrastructure will fill in the gaps introduced by virtualization.

Data Center Security

The data center is a complex environment of physical and virtual systems, integrated and optimized to deliver timely, secure, and trusted information throughout your organization.

In spite of its ever-evolving security demands, IBM can help you secure your data center with an end-to-end security solution. The result: Your company can build a secure, dynamic information infrastructure that helps you accelerate innovation while reducing cost and complexity of security.

Security Compliance

As regulatory demands increase along with the complexity of your infrastructure, businesses are taking an enterprise-wide approach to IT security risk management and compliance.

By identifying and prioritizing strategic objectives and efficiently using available people, process and technology across the enterprise, IT managers and business executives can manage security issues holistically and efficiently. Businesses are looking for security solutions that will support the entire lifecycle in assessing, planning, implementing, monitoring and maintaining enterprise compliance.

Cloud Security

IBM offers end-to-end solutions that enable you to take a business-driven and holistic approach to securing your cloud computing environment. IBM's capabilities empower you to dynamically monitor and quantify security risks, enabling you to better:

• understand threats and vulnerabilities in terms of business impact,
• respond to security events with security controls that optimize business results,
• prioritize and balance your security investments.

Web Security

IBM Rational® offers Website security, Web site compliance, and web application security solutions for the most comprehensive approach to assessing vulnerabilities in networked applications and critical Web sites.

Today, smart products rely on Web-enabled software. Although they make our lives more convenient, they also introduce Website security and compliance risks, including:

• Risk of data breach
• Risk of exposing unsuspecting visitors to malware attacks
• Risk of falling out of compliance with security, privacy, or accessibility requirements

IBM Security Framework

The IBM Security Technology Outlook (US) (PDF, 394KB) explores the important trends and technologies that are expected to shape the security environment in the next two to five years. Focusing on those trends that frame how organizations can respond to the security challenges of the emerging technological and social changes ahead, this report outlines what those technologies mean, the opportunities that comes with them and the ways in which IBM can help organizations strategically balance risk with opportunity.

What we offer

• People and identity (US)

  Manage user identity lifecycle and their rights to access resources effectively

• Data and information (US)

  Comprehensive data discovery, classification, access control, and archiving to protect information

• Application and process (US)

  Secure application design and development to remediate vulnerabilities, block attacks and control access

• Network, server, and endpoint (US)

  Proactive threat analysis and vulnerability management on networks and hosts

• Physical infrastructure (US)

  Monitor, assess and analyze digital video surveillance to automate alerts and response

Hot topics

• Virtualization security (US)

  Manage the security risks of virtualization and realize significant cost savings.

• Data center security (US)

  Incorporate comprehensive data center security solutions to keep your enterprise running securely and at maximum productivity.

• Security compliance (US)

  Assess risk, establish policy, and automate monitoring and compliance reporting

• Cloud security (US)

  Take a business-driven and holistic approach to securing your cloud computing environment.

• Web application security

  Incorporate static and dynamic application security testing solutions to protect data and web applications against attacks.

• IBM security framework (US)

  The IBM Security Technology Outlook explores the important trends we expect to shape security in the next two to five years.

IBM InfoSphere Guardium (US)

Solutions for assuring the privacy and integrity of trusted information in your data center

IBM InfoSphere Optim

Data Management solutions manage data from requirements to retirement

IBM Rational AppScan

Provides web application security vulnerability scanning, testing, and reporting

IBM Security Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On

Automates sign-on and access to your enterprise applications to reduce costs and risk

IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System

Comprehensive protection from today’s evolving threats

IBM Security zSecure suite

Mainframe security administration, compliance and audit

IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance

A single solution for managing endpoint security across the organization

IBM Tivoli Identity Manager

Automates internal controls that govern your user access rights

All products - Security

Application security

Data protection

Identity and accesss mangement

Infrastructure protection

Security intelligence and compliance analytics

IBM Managed Security Services

Award-winning managed services help protect your information assets from attack

IBM Consulting Security Services (US)

Build comprehensive and effective information security policies and practices for your business

IBM X-Force (US)

IBM X-Force research and development is a catalyst for continuous security innovation at IBM