IBM PowerSC

Power is security and compliance. IBM PowerSC™ provides a security and compliance solution optimized for virtualized environments on Power Systems™ servers, running PowerVM™ and AIX®. Security control and compliance are some of the key components needed to defend the virtualized data center and cloud infrastructure against ever evolving new threats. IBM's business-driven approach to enterprise security used in conjunction with solutions like PowerSC make IBM the premier security vendor in the market today.

Highlights

• Simplify security management and compliance measurement
• Reduce administration costs of meeting compliance regulations
• Ensure virtualized environments meet same security levels as physical servers
• Improve the audit capabilities for virtualized systems
• Reduce time and skills required for preparation of security audits
• Improve detection of security exposures in virtualized environments

Security and compliance are vital to many businesses, especially now that they must adhere to regulatory requirements designed to safeguard personal data and company information from security attacks. Ensuring that IT systems are compliant with common industry security standards and maintaining system security can be a challenging, labor-intensive activity especially with today’s virtualized IT infrastructures. IBM® Power Security and Compliance (PowerSC™) provides a security and compliance solution optimized for virtualized environments on Power Systems servers, running PowerVM™ and AIX®.

PowerSC enables security compliance automation and includes reporting for compliance measurement and audit. It’s compliance automation features also help businesses reduce the cost of security compliance.

Automation capabilities include supplying prebuilt system profiles that enforce compliance to various industry standards, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, the US Department of Defense Security Technical Implementation Guide and COBIT best practices. PowerSC also helps improve detection and visibility of security exposures by deploying trusted security extensions to highlight altered boot volumes and systems that are not at the site-specified patch levels. Trusted audit logs are used to centralize and protect logging integrity in virtualized environments.