IBM Introduces Products and Services

Today, at the RSA Conference, IBM introduced new services, hardware and software aimed at improving the security of cloud computing environments, helping ensure the confidentiality of data and helping locking down applications from attack.

The new security products and services arrive as recent studies from the IBM X-Force security research group revealed that criminal organizations around the globe are developing new attack techniques with alarming speed. At the same time, businesses are increasingly deploying more collaborative business models and taking advantage of new information technology (IT) infrastructures like cloud computing, virtualization and Web 2.0 which introduce new complexities for security teams. IBM's new arsenal of security products are designed to meet customers' requirements; allow businesses to take advantage of new technology paradigms by helping to address new and emerging risk; and help address the cost and complexity of important security and compliance projects -- like Identity Assurance and Data Security management -- through introduction of simplified security solutions.

"New computing models fundamentally require businesses to rethink how they deal with compliance, risk management, data and application protection," said Brian Truskowski, general manager of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS). "The industry has taken a 'deploy now, secure later' approach which is creating today's oppressive cost and complexity problems in security. IBM is driving innovation with platforms that embed security in the infrastructure to transform security into a business enabler, rather than a costly inhibitor."

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