CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Today, IBM
(NYSE: IBM) Security announced new and enhanced services
designed to help organizations manage their cloud security
strategy, policies and controls across hybrid cloud environments.
The services bring together cloud-native, IBM and third-party
technologies along with IBM expertise to help organizations create
a unified security approach across their cloud ecosystems.
Organizations today are leveraging a mix of cloud and
on-premises resources to achieve a balance of agility, security and
cost savings for their business. While the flexibility of hybrid
cloud can offer many benefits, many companies are challenged to
maintain visibility and effectively manage the breadth of security
controls across this dispersed IT environment. Cloud
misconfigurations were a leading cause of data breaches according
to the 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report,1 accounting
for nearly 1 in 5 data breaches studied.
Available today, the expanded suite of IBM Security Services for
Cloud is designed to help companies adopt a consistent security
strategy across their hybrid cloud environments – supported by IBM
specialists with expertise to manage native security controls
across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and
Microsoft Azure, amongst others. IBM's services can help companies
assess current cloud security posture, as well as build and manage
access, policies and technical controls to safeguard new and
existing cloud resources. The services leverage AI and automation
to help identify and prioritize risks, respond to potential
threats across an organization's cloud environments, and connect
that data with their broader security operations and on-premises
systems.
"Cloud security can appear daunting, with defenders facing an
expansive attack surface, shared responsibility models and rapidly
evolving cloud platforms and tools," said Vikram Chhabra, Global Director, Offering
Management and Strategy, IBM Security Services. "We cannot assume
that legacy approaches for security will work in this new operating
model – instead, security should be modernized specifically for the
hybrid cloud era, with a strategy based on zero trust principles
that bring together context, collaboration and visibility across
any cloud environment."
Combining Technology and Expertise to Simplify Cloud
Security
IBM Security Services for Cloud offer an open, automated
approach to help simplify hybrid cloud security – bringing together
cloud-agnostic security expertise together with an integrated set
of cloud, proprietary and third-party technology solutions. The
services can support clients in any stage of their cloud security
journey; from advising organizations on how to move data, users and
workloads to the cloud, to providing continual risk monitoring and
threat management of their existing hybrid cloud architecture.
The new and enhanced services include:
- Cloud Native Security Services: New advisory and managed
security services that can provide centralized visibility,
management and monitoring of native security controls across all
cloud environments – helping reduce the risk of cloud
misconfigurations, while providing insights into potential risks
and threats. IBM specialists can help design and implement security
practices for cloud-native controls based on specific business and
regulatory requirements, and provide ongoing monitoring and
reporting on how configurations are being optimized across the
company.
- Cloud Security Posture Management: New advisory and
managed security services can help clients design and implement a
cloud security posture management solution (CSPM) to address
governance and compliance across cloud service providers. These new
services can offer a single solution for compliance and governance
policy framework design, CSPM system integration and managed
services – providing actionable recommendations and automation to
help address compliance-related issues, as well ongoing monitoring
and remediation activities.
- Container Security: Security services for clients'
container environments, from consulting and systems integration to
threat management, vulnerability management and managed security
services for the full container lifecycle. This newly enhanced
service includes:
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- IBM consultants can assess existing container environments,
analyze DevSecOps processes, review application design and solution
requirements, and help clients build a roadmap for future
deployments.
- IBM Managed Security Services can provide centralized
visibility, management, and monitoring of containers through a
single dashboard – across images, registries, orchestrators and
cloud service providers.
- Integration with IBM Security X-Force Red vulnerability
management can help identify, analyze and rank thousands of
container-related vulnerabilities within client environments in
order to prioritize remediation.
- Cloud Security Strategy: Enhanced advisory services
for hybrid, multi-cloud security assessment and strategy, based on
industry frameworks such as CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM).
The services can now help organizations assess the security posture
of cloud workloads and services, including recommendations to
address risks. Using proprietary techniques, the services can
deliver a customized strategy and security maturity
roadmap tailored to specific client business and regulatory
needs.
These services build on IBM's existing capabilities and
expertise to support clients' cloud security journeys. IBM X-Force
Threat Management Services can help clients manage the lifecycle of
security threats across detection, investigation and response. IBM
also offers security services for Cloud Access Security Broker
(CASB,) which helps organizations protect cloud environments
through an integrated approach in planning and implementing a CASB
solution.
For information about IBM Security Services for Cloud, visit:
www.ibm.com/security/services/cloud-security-services
Additional Resources:
- The IBM Security Services Cloud Assessment tool can help
organizations measure their cloud security maturity and quantify
risk.
- IBM will host a webinar on April
1 to review strategic and operational considerations for
cloud security.
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 Security 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 150 billion+ security events per day in more than 130
countries, and has been granted more than 10,000 security patents
worldwide. For more information, please
check www.ibm.com/security, follow @IBMSecurity on
Twitter or visit the IBM Security Intelligence blog.
Media Contact:
Cassy
Lalan
IBM Security Media Relations
cllalan@us.ibm.com
319-230-2232 (m)
1 Benchmark study of 524 companies who experienced a
data breach, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored,
analyzed and reported by IBM Security
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