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Introducing IBM Guardium Data Security Center

Using a unified experience, protect your data from both present and future threats, such as cryptography and artificial intelligence assaults.

IBM is unveiling IBM Guardium Data Security Center, which enables enterprises to protect data in any environment, during its full lifespan, and with unified controls, as concerns connected to hybrid clouds, artificial intelligence, and quantum technology upend the conventional data security paradigm.

To assist you in managing the data security lifecycle, from discovery to remediation, for all data types and across all data environments, IBM Guardium Data Security Center provides five modules. In the face of changing requirements, it enables security teams throughout the company to work together to manage data risks and vulnerabilities.

Why Guardium Data Security Center?

Dismantle organizational silos by giving security teams the tools they need to work together across the board using unified compliance regulations, connected procedures, and a shared perspective of data assets.

Safeguard both structured and unstructured data on-premises and in the cloud.

Oversee the whole data security lifecycle, from detection to repair.

Encourage security teams to work together by providing an open ecosystem and integrated workflows.

Protect your digital transformation

Continuously evaluate threats and weaknesses with automated real-time alerts. Automated discovery and classification, unified dashboards and reporting, vulnerability management, tracking, and workflow management are examples of shared platform experiences that help you safeguard your data while growing your company.

Security teams can integrate workflows and handle data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, data and AI security posture management, and cryptography management all from a single dashboard with IBM Guardium Data Security Center’s shared view of an organization’s data assets. Generative AI features in IBM Guardium Data Security Center can help create risk summaries and increase the efficiency of security professionals.

IBM Guardium AI Security

At a time when generative AI usage is on the rise and the possibility of “shadow AI,” or the existence of unapproved models, is increasing, the center offers IBM Guardium AI Security, software that helps shield enterprises’ AI deployments from security flaws and violations of data governance policies.

Control the danger to the security of private AI data and models.

Use IBM Guardium AI Security to continuously find and address vulnerabilities in AI data, models, and application usage.

Guardium AI Security assists businesses in:

Obtain ongoing, automated monitoring for AI implementations.

Find configuration errors and security flaws

Control how users, models, data, and apps interact with security.

This component of IBM Guardium Data Security Center enables cross-organization collaboration between security and AI teams through unified compliance policies, a shared view of data assets, and integrated workflows.

Advantages

Learn about shadow AI and gain complete insight into AI implementations

The Guardium the AI model linked to each deployment is made public by AI Security. It reveals the data, model, and application utilization of every AI deployment. All of the applications that access the model will also be visible to you.

Determine which high-risk vulnerabilities need to be fixed

You can see the weaknesses in your model, the data that underlies it, and the apps that use it. You can prioritize your next steps by assigning a criticality value to each vulnerability. The list of vulnerabilities is easily exportable for reporting.

Adapt to evaluation frameworks and adhere to legal requirements

You can handle compliance concerns with AI models and data and manage security risk with the aid of Guardium AI Security. Assessment frameworks, like OWASP Top 10 for LLM, are mapped to vulnerabilities so that you can quickly understand more about the risks that have been detected and the controls that need to be put in place to mitigate them.

Qualities

Continuous and automated monitoring for AI implementations

Assist companies in gaining complete insight into AI implementations so they can identify shadow AI.

Find configuration errors and security flaws

Determine which high-risk vulnerabilities need to be fixed and relate them to evaluation frameworks like the OWASP Top 10 for LLM.

Keep an eye on AI compliance

Learn about AI implementations and how users, models, data, and apps interact. IBM Watsonx.governance is included preinstalled.

IBM Guardium Quantum Safe

Become aware of your cryptographic posture. Evaluate and rank cryptographic flaws to protect your important data.

IBM Guardium Quantum Safe, a program that assists customers in safeguarding encrypted data from future cyberattacks by malevolent actors with access to quantum computers with cryptographic implications, is another element of IBM Guardium Data Security Center. IBM Research, which includes IBM’s post-quantum cryptography techniques, and IBM Consulting have contributed to the development of IBM Guardium Quantum Safe.

Sensitive information could soon be exposed if traditional encryption techniques are “broken.”

Every business transaction is built on the foundation of data security. For decades, businesses have depended on common cryptography and encryption techniques to protect their data, apps, and endpoints. With quantum computing, old encryption schemes that would take years to crack on a traditional computer may be cracked in hours. All sensitive data protected by current encryption standards and procedures may become exposed as quantum computing develops.

IBM is a leader in the quantum safe field, having worked with industry partners to produce two newly published NIST post-quantum cryptography standards. IBM Guardium Quantum Safe, which is available on IBM Guardium Data Security Center, keeps an eye on how your company uses cryptography, identifies cryptographic flaws, and ranks remediation in order to protect your data from both traditional and quantum-enabled threats.

Advantages

All-encompassing, combined visibility

Get better insight into the cryptographic posture, vulnerabilities, and remediation status of your company.

Quicker adherence

In addition to integrating with enterprise issue-tracking systems, users can create and implement policies based on external regulations and internal security policies.

Planning for cleanup more quickly

Prioritizing risks gives you the information you need to create a remediation map that works fast.

Characteristics

Visualization

Get insight into how cryptography is being used throughout the company, then delve deeper to assess the security posture of cryptography.

Keeping an eye on and tracking

Track and evaluate policy infractions and corrections over time with ease.

Prioritizing vulnerabilities

Rapidly learn the priority of vulnerabilities based on non-compliance and commercial effect.

Actions motivated by policy

Integrate with IT issue-tracking systems to manage policy breaches that have been defined by the user and expedite the remedy process.

Organizations must increase their crypto-agility and closely monitor their AI models, training data, and usage during this revolutionary period. With its AI Security, Quantum Safe, and other integrated features, IBM Guardium Data Security Center offers thorough risk visibility.

In order to identify vulnerabilities and direct remediation, IBM Guardium Quantum Safe assists enterprises in managing their enterprise cryptographic security posture and gaining visibility. By combining crypto algorithms used in code, vulnerabilities found in code, and network usages into a single dashboard, it enables organizations to enforce policies based on external, internal, and governmental regulations. This eliminates the need for security analysts to piece together data dispersed across multiple systems, tools, and departments in order to monitor policy violations and track progress. Guardium Quantum Safe provides flexible reporting and configurable metadata to prioritize fixing serious vulnerabilities.

For sensitive AI data and AI models, IBM Guardium AI Security handles data governance and security risk. Through a shared perspective of data assets, it assists in identifying AI deployments, addressing compliance, mitigating risks, and safeguarding sensitive data in AI models. IBM Watsonx and other generative AI software as a service providers are integrated with IBM Guardium AI Security. To ensure that “shadow AI” models no longer elude governance, IBM Guardium AI Security, for instance, assists in the discovery of these models and subsequently shares them with IBM Watsonx.governance.

An integrated strategy for a period of transformation

Risks associated with the hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, and quantum era necessitate new methods of protecting sensitive data, including financial transactions, medical information, intellectual property, and vital infrastructure. Organizations desperately need a reliable partner and an integrated strategy to data protection during this revolutionary period, not a patchwork of discrete solutions. This integrated strategy is being pioneered by IBM.

IBM Consulting and Research’s more comprehensive Quantum Safe products complement IBM Guardium Quantum Safe. IBM Research has produced the technology and research that powers the software. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently standardized a number of IBM Research’s post-quantum cryptography algorithms, which is an important step in preventing future cyberattacks by malicious actors who might obtain access to cryptographically significant quantum computers.

These technologies are used by IBM Consulting’s Quantum Safe Transformation Services to assist organizations in identifying risks, prioritizing and inventorying them, addressing them, and then scaling the process. Numerous experts in cryptography and quantum safe technologies are part of IBM Consulting’s cybersecurity team. IBM Quantum Safe Transformation Services are used by dozens of clients in the government, financial, telecommunications, and other sectors to help protect their companies from existing and future vulnerabilities, such as harvest now, decrypt later.

Additionally, IBM is expanding its Verify offering today with decentralized identity features: Users can save and manage their own credentials with IBM Verify Digital Credentials. Physical credentials such as driver’s licenses, insurance cards, loyalty cards, and employee badges are digitized by the feature so they may be standardized, saved, and shared with complete control, privacy protection, and security. Identity protection throughout the hybrid cloud is provided by IBM Verify, an IAM (identity access management) service.

Statements on IBM’s future direction and intent are merely goals and objectives and are subject to change or withdrawal at any time.