Organizations can address challenges in data security and privacy by enabling advanced data protection for workloads and AI data warehouses with IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Data Security Broker
September 6, 2023
ARMONK, N.Y. – September 6, 2023 – IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the expansion of the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center, a suite of modern cloud security and compliance solutions designed to help organizations mitigate risks and protect… Data through its hybrid solutions. and multi-cloud environments and workloads. As customers look for ways to address new threats across the supply chain and manage evolving global regulations, the suite of solutions helps support their needs for resiliency, performance, security and compliance while helping to reduce operating costs.
“IBM Cloud has a long history of working with customers in financial services and other highly regulated industries, especially when it comes to helping them drive innovation while protecting their sensitive data,” said Rohit Badlani, general manager, IBM Cloud Product and Industry Platform. . “The expansion of the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center demonstrates our continued focus on industry-specific capabilities that help address our customers' real business challenges. For example, customers have the ability to use the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services, which can help them address rules, laws, and regulations The evolving capabilities surrounding cloud risks demonstrate our commitment to supporting customers on their hybrid cloud modernization journeys, designed to bring security, compliance, privacy and trust to the forefront of our product roadmap.
Research conducted by IBM revealed that more than 77 percent of global business leaders have adopted a hybrid cloud approach, yet more than half of survey respondents still worry about security, and believe it is too difficult to maintain compliance in the cloud. To help customers overcome these challenges, the next evolution of the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center aims to help customers continuously monitor and manage security and compliance from a central dashboard across their public and hybrid cloud environments – not just IBM Cloud. With the new addition of IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Data Security Broker, developed in collaboration with Baffle, Inc., the solution suite's capabilities extend beyond compliance posture management and workload protection capabilities to include application-level security.
“As more organizations adopt a hybrid, multi-cloud approach to managing applications of all types across SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and on-premises, there is a need for automated and centrally managed technologies that can implement security and compliance capabilities at scale,” said Frank Dixon, vice president, IBM Security and Compliance Center. : “The IBM Security and Compliance Center addresses this need for comprehensive protection – which is especially critical for organizations in highly regulated industries that manage sensitive data, such as financial services – regardless of the application in which the data may reside Security and trust in IDC.” “IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Data Security Broker will support more scalable data protection, reinforcing IBM's commitment to building technology that creates improved outcomes.”
The new IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Data Security Broker solution provides a transparent layer of format-preserving data encryption, encryption and anonymization to protect sensitive data used in business applications and AI workloads.
“The IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Data Security Broker is a year-long effort to produce a simplified data protection solution for IBM customers,” said Amesh Devatia, CEO of Baffle, Inc. “Enterprises want to work with more agility and scale to modernize the complexities of the shared responsibility model with Cloud provider.” “By combining the powerful IBM Cloud platform with Baffle’s unique data-centric security approach, organizations can confidently protect their sensitive and valuable data as it enters the cloud and is shared across the entire analytics pipeline.
In addition to the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Data Security Broker, the expanded IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center suite will include several new capabilities to support customers, especially those in regulated industries, addressing industry security, compliance, and data residency requirements:
Enhanced Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Workload Protection (CWPP), and Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) to help protect hybrid and multi-cloud environments and workloads. Workload protection capabilities are designed to prioritize vulnerability management to support rapid identification and remediation of critical vulnerabilities. This includes container threat detection, built on open source Falco, which uses advanced machine learning and behavioral analysis to help identify and block threats in near real-time. Intelligent automation technology with deployable architectures has the potential to accelerate secure cloud adoption, without requiring developers to have extensive compliance knowledge, or engage in complex post-deployment detection and mitigation processes. Visibility into third and fourth party risk posture through integration with risk management solutions. This type of visibility can help organizations examine their own risks as well as their supply chain threats to address their critical security and compliance requirements. Expanded compliance capabilities will be available in Q42023 and will include automating the implementation and management of compliance controls and centralized data collection to help customers support new regulatory compliance standards.
Expanding the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center advances IBM's mission of helping customers protect their workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, as well as the sensitive data within them. IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center is generally available and includes additional partner integrations.
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