System z Solution Edition for Security

Security breaches, identity theft, PCI compliance, privacy, and fraudulent activity are escalating security priorities that enterprise customers worldwide have been intensely focused on. Brand image, financial loss, and compliance failures are a few examples of negative business impacts resulting from these security exposures. Today’s information security and fraud solutions have been silo’d and distributed across the Enterprise. With this offering, a variety of functions will be able to be deployed on a centralized environment to give more control, auditing, reliability, availability, and scalability.

With greater than 45 years of integration and synergy between hardware and software, IBM System z10™ servers are designed to deliver the system integrity and security-rich solutions required to address today’s Dynamic Infrastructure requirements for a Smarter Planet. The IBM System z10™ servers and security software are designed to promote a secured application infrastructure to protect the environment as well as extend the risk and security management capabilities into the Enterprise, establishing an enterprise security hub. This includes protecting sensitive business critical data, sharing information internally as well as externally, providing enhanced encryption and key infrastructure capabilities, protecting user privacy, providing an extensive audit trail with compliance reporting, reducing fraudulent activities, allowing centralized administration, securing virtualization, and protecting information traveling across the network while maintaining high levels of infrastructure, application, and data availability.

The System z Solution Edition for Security accelerates, automates, and simplifies both the assessment of a business' holistic security needs, and the deployment of a comprehensive set of rich security solutions designed to address those security needs. The five security solutions include a broad portfolio of industry-leading enterprise security products aligned with your specific business needs, as well as services that accelerate and simplify the Offering installation and implementation. Building upon the unparalleled security capabilities characteristic of z/OS, the following Offering solutions provide the hardware capabilities and security products that allow the enterprise to host a variety of workloads and applications in a security-rich business environment.

• Enterprise Fraud Analysis (Linux on System z)
• Enterprise Encryption and Key Management (z/OS)
• Centralized Identity & Access Management (Linux on System z, z/OS)
• Securing Virtualization: z/VM®, Linux
• Compliance / Risk Mitigation / Secure Infrastructure (z/OS)

These solutions accelerate, automate, and simplify deployment of an Enterprise Security foundation that can be achieved through an IBM System z10 / z9, specialty engine or LPAR solution, at a very competitive price. These 5 System z Security Solutions are designed to efficiently and effectively address most of your security needs today, while pro-actively preparing your business for tomorrow. Contact your IBM sales representative now to learn more about the Solution Edition for Security Offering, which includes a comprehensive, rich security foundation and services, aligned with your specific business needs.