ARMONK, N.Y., April 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced it is bringing its market-leading Security
Intelligence technology, IBM QRadar®, to the cloud, giving
companies the ability to quickly prioritize real threats and free
up critical resources to fight cyberattacks. The new services are
available to clients through a cloud-based Software as a Service
(SaaS) model, with optional IBM Security Managed Services to
provide deeper expertise and flexibility for security
professionals.
According to the 2014 IBM Cyber Index, organizations globally
deal with an average of 91 million potential security events every
year, creating vast volumes of data that need to be stored and
analyzed. Cloud-based threat monitoring and analytics provides the
simplicity of a hosted deployment, combined with advanced analytics
capabilities and the proven expertise from a security services
provider needed to monitor today's hybrid IT
environments. The two new cloud-based services are:
- IBM Security Intelligence on Cloud – helps organizations
determine if security-related events are simple anomalies or
potential threats. Built as a cloud service using IBM QRadar,
enterprises can quickly correlate security event data with threat
information from over 500 supported data sources for devices,
systems, and applications. This is complemented by more than
1500 pre-defined reports for use cases such as compliance,
vulnerability management and security incident response.
Also, the integration of QRadar with IBM's recently announced
cloud-based X-Force Exchange gives security teams volumes of
historical and real time threat intelligence.
- Intelligent Log Management on Cloud - designed to
simplify security and compliance data collection and reporting
needs. Powered by IBM QRadar® technology, Intelligent Log
Management uses analytics and a hosted, multi-tenant technology to
rapidly deliver comprehensive compliance with powerful real-time
correlation and anomaly detection capabilities. Through support for
more than 400 platforms, security managers can also capture logs
from nearly any device in their security operation.
"Organizations are facing a security data tsunami that can
overwhelm even the most sophisticated enterprise's security
program," said Jason Corbin, Vice
President, Product Management and Strategy, IBM Security. "Security
leaders are telling us they want increased visibility through the
cloud and control throughout their hybrid IT environments. The
option of doing predictive analytics via the cloud gives security
teams the flexibility to bring in skills, innovation and
information on demand across all of their security
environments."
Next Generation IBM Managed Services for Cloud
Security
These new offerings are backed and delivered through IBM's
next-generation platform of managed security services, handling
over 15 billion security events per day for over 4,000 clients
around the world. IBM Security experts, located in ten global
security operations centers (SOCs), are available on demand
24x7. These IBM analysts and engineers help clients detect
and protect themselves from security risks often before software
fixes are released to the market—giving IBM clients an additional
edge when it comes to safeguarding their computers, networks and
corporate "crown jewels."
The unique IBM capabilities consolidate diverse security
environments across existing platforms, as well as private, public
and hybrid clouds under a "single pane of glass"— helping customers
transform and optimize their overall security operations. This
approach helps businesses better integrate security threat
intelligence, big data and analytics with customized
services. Also, clients can experience improved threat
response times, while potentially reducing overall security costs
by an average of 55 percent. This also significantly improves
threat detection, helping clients automatically triage up to 95
percent of their security events.
For more information, please visit
http://www.ibm.com/security.
About IBM Security
IBM's security platform provides the security intelligence to
help organizations holistically protect their people, data,
applications and infrastructure. IBM offers solutions for identity
and access management, security information and event management,
database security, application development, risk management,
endpoint management, next-generation intrusion protection and more.
IBM operates one of the world's broadest security research and
development, and delivery organizations. For more information,
please visit www.ibm.com/security, follow @IBMSecurity on Twitter
or visit the IBM Security Intelligence blog.
Contact: Michael Rowinski,
rowinski@us.ibm.com, 917-691-9761
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