Cloud security is not only achievable, it is an opportunity to drive the business, improve defenses and reduce risk. When your business transforms security practices that are manual, static and reactive into a more standardized, automated, and elastic approach, you’ll stay ahead of threats in your cloud environment. IBM™ cloud security services solutions span both IBM™ consulting services and managed services to help build your capabilities and get the expertise you need. You’ve moved some or all your IT to the cloud, but it’s resulted in unexpected costs, fragmentation, and a need for more security staff to monitor data, mitigate advanced threats and meet regulatory requirements. Web access management that provides Single Sign On (SSO) centralized access controls, advanced context based controls, and support for conventional and multi factor authentication. Configured self—service apps for registration, password reset, profile management, access request, and administration. A managed intrusion prevention system monitors security events in real—time, providing an additional layer of security beyond the firewall to monitor for potential malicious activities.

IBM Cloud Security Managed Services™ uses integrated security technologies, global threat intelligence, vulnerability research and security professionals to help separate the “usual” or expected events from the “unusual” attacks and incidents—and deliver a more robust security solution for your cloud environment. IBM™ cloud security strategy services are designed to guide your journey—from assessment to priorities to a robust roadmap—so you can build a security—rich path to cloud. Whether you have already implemented a cloud initiative or are in the beginning stages, you may be concerned about the impact on your organization’s security and privacy posture. We track incidents and collect data that can improve network security. Limitless integration—integration of nearly any number and type of identity repositories from a simple AD or database to complex ERPs, mainframes, and HR systems. The industry’s most comprehensive set of cloud based IAM capabilities, which can be simply turned on or off to fit requirements. A complete enterprise class IAM solution from the cloud in as little as 6 weeks, including multi—site disaster recovery and separate non production environments.

Next–Generation Threat Insight

Log management is a must do in security. Yet, with the increasing sophistication of cybersecurity, you can no longer rely on log management for simple aggregation, display and storage. This is particularly true in a hybrid environment where your firm may have multiple IT platforms. Intelligent log management on cloud from IBM™, part of the IBM Threat Insight Platform™, helps meet these challenges. It’s a cloud—based log management service designed to simplify security and compliance management needs for hybrid IT environments. Safeguard your assets from DDoS attacks and massive outages. The Internet continues to connect more people, places and things, resulting in new security risks. What happens if your website goes down for an hour? Managed web defense from IBM™ helps you plan for, respond to and correlate data during an attack. IBM™ also helps you stop attacks before they affect your web presence by using an additional protection layer in the cloud. IBM™ uses cloud—based Akamai Kona Site Defender™ to provide a multilayered approach to web protection. IBM X—Force™ specialists can provide a robust solution designed to combat distributed denial of service attacks.

Identity Governance And Administration

Identity life cycle processes, automated provisioning of accounts among heterogeneous systems, access requests, dynamic role provisioning and governance over user access via workflows for policy enforcement, and more. Easy connection of SaaS applications and partners through powerful federation capabilities using standards such as SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect. Security intelligence and operations consulting services—discover the next generation of security intelligence technology. Building your security capabilities across all IT environments. IBM™ can help your organization develop more maturity in intelligence driven operations across all environments. Our consultants assess your security capabilities and maturity against best practices in security. If you want to create or improve your security operations center, IBM™ will plan, design and build it out. Advanced auditing—comprehensive transaction recording with ad hoc reporting capabilities that provide data and intelligence to security and compliance stakeholders. Cloud identity services—protect and control your IT environment with cloud—based Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Features And Benefits