NEW YORK ,
May 31, 2017
/PRNewswire/ -- Cisco and IBM (NYSE: IBM)
Security today announced they are working together to address the
growing global threat of cybercrime. In a new collaboration, Cisco
and IBM Security will work closely together across products,
services and threat intelligence for the benefit of
customers.
Cisco® security solutions will integrate with IBM's QRadar
to protect organizations across networks, endpoints and cloud.
Customers will also benefit from the scale of IBM Global Services
support of Cisco products in their Managed Security Service
Provider (MSSP) offerings. The collaboration also establishes a new
relationship between the IBM X-Force and Cisco Talos security
research teams, who will begin collaborating on threat intelligence
research and coordinating on major cybersecurity
incidents.
One of the core issues impacting security teams is the
proliferation of security tools that do not communicate or
integrate. A recent Cisco survey of 3,000
chief security officers found that 65 percent of their
organizations use between six and 50 different security products.
Managing such complexity is challenging over-stretched security
teams and can lead to potential gaps in security. The Cisco and IBM
Security relationship is focused on helping organizations reduce
the time required to detect and mitigate threats, offering
organizations integrated tools to help them automate a threat
response with greater speed and accuracy.
"In cybersecurity, taking a data-driven approach is the
only way to stay ahead of the threats impacting your business,"
said Bill Heinrich, Chief
Information Security Director, BNSF Railway. "Cisco and IBM working
together greatly increases our team's ability to focus on stopping
threats versus making disconnected systems work with each other.
This more open and collaborative approach is an important step for
the industry and our ability to defend ourselves against
cybercrime."
Integrating Threat Defenses Across Networks and
Cloud
The cost of data breaches to enterprises
continues to rise. In 2016, the Ponemon Institute found for
companies surveyed the cost was at its highest
ever at $4 million - up
29 percent over the past three years. A slow response can also
impact the cost of a breach – incidents that took longer than 30
days to contain cost $1 million more
than those contained within 30 days. These rising costs make
visibility into threats, and blocking them quickly, central to an
integrated threat defense approach.
The combination of Cisco's best-of-breed security
offerings and its architectural approach, integrated with IBM's
Cognitive Security Operations Platform, will help customers secure
their organizations more effectively from the network to the
endpoint to the cloud. As part of the collaboration, Cisco will
build new applications for IBM's QRadar security analytics
platform. The first two new applications will be designed to help
security teams understand and respond to advanced threats and will
be available on the IBM Security App Exchange. These will enhance
user experience, and help clients identify and remediate incidents
more effectively when working with Cisco's Next-Generation Firewall
(NGFW), Next-Generation Intrusion Protection System (NGIPS) and
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) and Threat Grid.
In addition, IBM's Resilient Incident Response Platform
(IRP) will integrate with Cisco's Threat Grid to provide security
teams with insights needed to respond to incidents faster. For
example, analysts in the IRP can look up indicators of compromise
with Cisco Threat Grid's threat intelligence, or detonate suspected
malware with its sandbox technology. This enables security teams to
gain valuable incident data in the moment of response.
"Cisco's architectural approach to security allows
organizations to see a threat once, and stop it everywhere. By
combining Cisco's comprehensive security portfolio with IBM
Security's operations and response platform, Cisco and IBM bring
best-of-breed products and solutions across the network, endpoint
and cloud, paired with advanced analytics and orchestration
capabilities," said David Ulevitch,
SVP and general manager, Cisco Security.
"Cybercrime is expected to cost the world $6
trillion annually by 2021. This is why IBM has been a
proponent of open collaboration and threat sharing in cybersecurity
to change the economics for criminals," said Marc van Zadelhoff, general manager, IBM
Security. "With Cisco joining our immune system of defense, joint
customers will greatly expand their ability to enhance their use of
cognitive technologies like IBM Watson for Cyber Security. Also,
having our IBM X-Force and Cisco Talos teams collaborating is a
tremendous advantage for the good guys in the fight against
cybercrime."
Threat Intelligence and Managed Services
IBM X-Force and Cisco Talos research teams will collaborate
on security research aimed at addressing the most challenging
cybersecurity problems facing mutual customers by connecting their
leading experts. For joint customers, IBM will deliver an
integration between X-Force Exchange and Cisco's Threat Grid. This
integration greatly expands the historical and real-time threat
intelligence that security analysts can correlate for deeper
insights.
For example, Cisco and IBM recently shared threat
intelligence as part of the recent WannaCry ransomware attacks. The
teams coordinated their response and researchers exchanged insights
into how the malware was spreading. They continue to collaborate on
the investigation to ensure joint customers, and the industry, have
the most relevant information.
Through this expanded collaboration, IBM's Managed
Security Services team, which manages security for over 3,700
customers globally, will work with Cisco to deliver new services
aimed at further reducing complexity. One of the first offerings is
designed for the growing hybrid cloud market. As enterprise
customers migrate security infrastructure to public and private
cloud providers, IBM Security will provide Managed Security
Services in support of Cisco security platforms in leading public
cloud services.
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About IBM Security
IBM
Security offers one of the most advanced and integrated portfolios
of enterprise security products and services. The portfolio,
supported by world-renowned IBM X-Force® research, enables
organizations to effectively manage risk and defend against
emerging threats. IBM operates one of the world's broadest security
research, development and delivery organizations, monitors 35
billion security events per day in more than 130 countries, and
holds more than 3,000 security patents. For more information,
please visit www.ibm.com/security, follow
@IBMSecurity on Twitter or visit the IBM Security
Intelligence blog.
Contacts:
Michael Rowinski
External Relations Manager, IBM Security
720-395-8497
rowinski@us.ibm.com
Jennifer Massaro
Cisco Corporate PR
408-309-6886
jemassar@cisco.com
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