New Kyndryl services, co-developed with
Microsoft, provide augmented security operations and fortify
Kyndryl's cyber resilience framework
NEW
YORK, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl
(NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services
provider, today introduced a new suite of services, co-developed
with Microsoft, to enhance cyber resilience for businesses
globally.
Kyndryl and Microsoft have built upon their successful,
long-standing partnership to develop differentiated, scalable
security and resiliency services. The new services are
integrated into Kyndryl Bridge, the industry-leading, artificial
intelligence (AI)-powered, open integration digital business
platform. Combining Kyndryl's deep services expertise with
Microsoft's security technologies provides businesses a
comprehensive approach to defending their operations from nefarious
threats and attacks.
This collaboration between Kyndryl and Microsoft can help
customers address their expansive cyber resilience needs, ranging
from compliance to secure, resilient IT infrastructure, especially
considering that cyberattacks are the top concern for business
leaders.
"As businesses continue to embrace digital modernization and
rapid advancements in technology, the cyber threat landscape and
growing regulatory pressures around the world are becoming
increasingly complex," said Michelle
Weston, Vice President of Security & Resiliency,
Kyndryl. "Through our strategic partnership with Microsoft, we are
positioned to meet our customers' needs by providing robust
security capabilities and supporting their regulatory readiness.
Our combined expertise allows us to deliver services that not only
protect our customers' assets, but also empower them to thrive in a
rapidly evolving digital environment."
"The need for robust cyber resilience has never been greater,"
said Ricardo Davila, Senior
Director, Kyndryl, at Microsoft. "By leveraging Microsoft's
security technologies and Kyndryl's expertise, together, we're
helping businesses protect their critical assets, so they
can operate with confidence. This partnership reinforces our
shared commitment to combat cyber threats, so they can realize
digital transformation across industries."
Through its services, Kyndryl provides customers:
- Enhanced risk and compliance readiness: To help support
customers' cyber regulatory readiness around the world, Kyndryl's
services with Microsoft Purview can automatically assess and manage
compliance across multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. A
global team of security experts recommend the most relevant
assessments and advise on which policies and operational procedures
to implement to help mitigate compliance risk.
- Security information and event management (SIEM)
migration: Customers can migrate existing Microsoft
Sentinel SIEM solutions quickly, enhancing security operations
center (SOC) capabilities and accelerating onboarding processes,
reducing time to initiate the delivery of services.
- Identity and access management (IAM): Protecting
identities and controlling access is one of the first lines of
defense against threats to an organization's data and systems.
Using Zero Trust principles, Kyndryl's services with Microsoft
Entra enhance security and provide a better user experience for
customers by offering simplified user authentication, identity
governance and integrations to help secure access to their
resources.
- Increased detection and response (XDR)
capabilities: Businesses have increasingly complex IT
architecture with remote endpoints that use several operating
systems and device types. The XDR services with Microsoft Defender
enable threat prevention, detection and response against
increasingly sophisticated attacks on customer assets, including
email, identity, Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, cloud
infrastructure and data.
As part of the partnership, Kyndryl became a member of the
Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of
independent software vendors (ISVs) and managed security service
providers (MSSPs) that have integrated their solutions with
Microsoft Security technology to better defend mutual customers
against a world of increasing cyber threats.
Visit the Kyndryl and Microsoft alliance page for more
information on the strategic partnership.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is
the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, serving
thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The
Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex,
mission-critical information systems that the world depends on
every day. For more information,
visit www.kyndryl.com.
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