IBM Security Framework

IBM is working with various business design options to build, support and leverage cloud computing and is leveraging the cloud as an enabler for security technologies and processes. For example, IBM offers:
  • Security as a service (out of the cloud, and into the cloud)
  • A comprehensive security portfolio that provides the ability to build secure clouds
  • Security assessment services that can be applied to clouds
  • Various cloud offerings that have built-in security
img It’s clear to IBM that a variety of security technologies, processes, procedures, laws, and trust models are required to secure the cloud. There is no silver bullet for securing the cloud. IBM’s full breadth and depth of solutions and services enable organizations to take a business-driven, holistic approach to securing the cloud. IBM capabilities empower organizations to dynamically monitor and quantify security risks, to better understand threats and vulnerabilities in terms of business impact, to better respond to security events with security controls that optimize business results, and to better prioritize and balance their security investments.

The multi-dimensional IBM Security Framework represents our belief that today’s organizations are complex systems where people are interacting with applications, residing on a technology infrastructure within a physical facility, often for the purpose of managing data. And security must be applied within the business process context, applying controls at the areas that make the most sense. The back plane of the Framework represents IBM’s commitment to assuring that our offerings share common policy, event handling and reporting such that our customers can measure the effectiveness of their investments.

Through world-class solutions – including software, hardware and services – that address risk across each aspect of your business, IBM is able to create an intelligent infrastructure that drives down costs, is secure, and is just as dynamic as today's business climate. The IBM Security Framework offers a strong foundation and can extend these benefits from traditional IT environments to cloud computing environments.

Source: IBM
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