You gather and store sensitive organizational data – customer details, employee information, product and offering details. You know you need to protect this information, but to effectively run a business you often need to share key data across systems and among teams. This sharing can improve collaboration and service delivery but it can also put critical data at greater risk.

IBM security solutions can help you bring new services online faster, improve productivity and reduce costs while protecting your critical applications and data. IBM can help you build security into your business processes and daily operations while addressing the complexity, compliance and cost challenges through a comprehensive security framework. IBM has a long history of helping organizations secure their environments through professional services, managed services and hardware and software solutions that are recognized for leadership.

Examples of IBM security capabilities include:

• Leading, built-in hardware encryption on many servers and storage devices to help secure data without performance impact.
• Services for monitoring and auditing activities inside the data center while also protecting against outside threats at the network, server and desktop levels.
• Real-time database activity monitoring to detect unauthorized or suspicious activities.
• Centralized management of encryption keys for tape and disk storage.
• Automated compliance auditing in heterogeneous environments.

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