Today's leaders face multiple challenges, including the need to innovate in extremely competitive conditions, address dynamic regulatory and compliance challenges, speed returns on investments to counter shrinking IT budgets, and secure the enterprise against a barrage of new and evolving sophisticated threats. However, unlike other business challenges, organisations often take a technology-driven approach to securing their infrastructure, when a risk-based, business-driven approach is more effective.

The IBM business-driven approach to enterprise security helps you to address risk and reduce cost and complexity. This approach:

• Helps to identify gaps in your existing capabilities across the people, processes, applications, data, technology and physical facilities across your organisation
• Helps you prioritise security initiatives and investments for optimal return
• Simplifies and speeds the planning and execution of an enterprise-wide security program
• Provides repeatable, measurable planning processes, a roadmap and solutions to help you manage security in a way that supports competitiveness and growth
• Helps you reach a desired security posture that meets business and regulatory requirements
• Helps you leverage smart security solutions to lower overall costs

IBM is the only security vendor in the market today with end-to-end coverage across all risk areas to help you create an intelligent infrastructure that drives down costs, is secure, and is just as dynamic as today's business climate.