Unified, SaaS-first data security capabilities for enterprises’ hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum computing transformations
BEIJING, Oct. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As risks associated with hybrid cloud, AI and quantum continue to disrupt traditional data security paradigms, IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today launchedIBM Guardium Data Security Center , designed to help enterprises protect data throughout its lifecycle with unified controls in any environment.
IBM launches IBM Guardium Data Security Center
IBM Guardium Data Security Center provides a unified view of enterprise data assets, helping security teams integrate workflows and handle data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, data and AI security posture management, and password management in a single dashboard. With its generative AI capabilities, IBM Guardium Data Security Center can generate risk summaries to improve the efficiency of security specialists.
Today, the adoption of generative AI technologies and the risks of shadow AI (unauthorized models) are rapidly surging. The Data Security Center platform protects enterprises’ AI deployments through embedded IBM Guardium AI Security software to avoid security vulnerabilities and violations of data governance policies.
IBM Guardium Data Security Center also includesIBM Guardium Quantum Safe software, which helps clients protect encrypted data from potential future quantum attacks, such as cyber attackers gaining access to cryptographically relevant quantum computers. IBM Guardium Quantum Safe is built on the research of IBM Research, including IBM’s post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, and the industry expertise of IBM Consulting.
"Generative AI and quantum computing create tremendous opportunities, but also new risks," said Akiba Saeedi, vice president of product management, IBM Security . "During this transformative period, organizations need greater encryption flexibility and increased visibility into AI models, training data and usage. IBM Guardium Data Security Center provides organizations with comprehensive risk visibility with AI security, quantum security and other integrated capabilities."
IBM Guardium Quantum Safe helps enterprises understand and manage their password security posture, address vulnerabilities and guide remediation efforts. It integrates the encryption algorithms used by the code, security vulnerabilities detected in the code, and network usage into a single dashboard, making it easy for security analysts to monitor policy violations and track progress, thereby helping enterprises enforce policies in accordance with external, internal and government regulations without the need to integrate information distributed across different systems, tools and departments. Guardium Quantum Safe provides customizable metadata and flexible reporting modes to ensure that critical vulnerabilities are fixed first.
IBM Guardium Quantum Safe
IBM Guardium AI Security manages sensitive AI data, as well as the security risks and data governance requirements of AI models. In addition to discovering AI deployments, ensuring compliance, and reducing vulnerabilities, it can protect sensitive data in AI models through a holistic view of data assets. In addition, IBM Guardium AI Security can be integrated with IBM watsonx and other generative AI SaaS providers. For example, IBM Guardium AI Security will promptly share the discovered "shadow AI" models with the IBM watsonx.governance platform to ensure effective governance.
IBM Guardium AI Security
Keywords for data security in the era of change: comprehensive, trustworthy, and forward-looking
The risks of the hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum era mean that critical data—such as medical records, financial transactions, intellectual property, critical infrastructure, and more—need new protections. In this period of change, businesses need a trusted partner and a comprehensive data security strategy, not a patchwork of piecemeal solutions.
IBM is already one step ahead. The launch of IBM Guardium Quantum Safe software is an important complement to IBM's quantum safety products and services, benefiting from the industry expertise of IBM Consulting and the technical achievements of IBM Research. Recently, several post-quantum cryptography algorithms from IBM Research have been published and standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), marking an important milestone in protecting the world's encrypted data and a key step in protecting encrypted data from possible quantum attacks.
IBM Consulting's Quantum Security Transformation Services have leveraged these technologies to help companies define, prioritize, and respond to risks, and then scale the entire process. IBM Consulting's cybersecurity team has extensive experience in cryptography, quantum security, and other technical fields. Dozens of clients in telecommunications, finance, government, and other industries are using IBM's Quantum Security Transformation Services to prevent current and future risks, such as "steal first, decrypt later" cyber attacks.
IBM has also added a decentralized identity feature, IBM Verify Digital Credentials , to the IBM Security Verify portfolio to help users store and manage their credentials. This feature can digitize physical credentials such as driver's licenses, insurance cards, membership cards and employee cards, and then achieve standardized and secure storage and sharing through comprehensive security, privacy protection and control measures. As an industry-leading IAM (identity access management) solution, IBM Verify can effectively protect user credentials in a hybrid cloud environment.
Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice.
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IBM is the world's leading provider of hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and enterprise services, helping clients in more than 175 countries and regions gain business insights from their data, simplify business processes, reduce costs, and gain industry competitive advantages. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare rely on IBM hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to achieve digital transformation quickly, efficiently, and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, industry cloud solutions, and enterprise services provide our clients with open and flexible choices. The long-term commitment to corporate integrity, transparent governance, social responsibility, inclusive culture, and service spirit is the cornerstone of IBM's business development. For more information, please visit: https://www.ibm.com/cn-zh
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