As hybrid cloud-, AI-, and quantum-related risks upend the traditional data security paradigm, IBM is launching IBM Guardium Data Security Center – allowing organisations to protect data in any environment, throughout its full lifecycle, and with unified controls.
IBM Guardium Data Security Center provides a common view of organisations’ data assets, empowering security teams to integrate workflows and address data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, data and AI security posture management, and cryptography and key management together in a single dashboard. IBM Guardium Data Security Center includes generative AI capabilities to help generate risk summaries and boost security professionals’ productivity.
“Generative AI and quantum computing technologies present new opportunities and risks to Indian organisations,” says Viswanath Ramaswamy, Vice President of Technology, IBM India and South Asia. “As Indian organisations navigate growing cybersecurity risks related to AI and evolving compliance regulations, they should invest in robust software capabilities to secure their AI data, models, and usage. Taking a proactive approach to secure quantum computing, which is the next big technology frontier, will also be crucial. IBM Guardium Data Security Center will provide Indian organisations with comprehensive visibility and protection against potential cybersecurity risks.”
The centre features IBM Guardium AI Security, software to help protect organisations’ AI deployments from security vulnerabilities and data governance policy violations at a time when generative AI adoption – and the risk of “shadow AI,” the presence of unsanctioned models – is surging.
IBM Guardium Data Security Center also features IBM Guardium Quantum Safe, software that helps clients to protect encrypted data from the potential risk of future cyberattacks driven by bad actors who gain access to cryptographically relevant quantum computers. IBM Guardium Quantum Safe builds upon expertise from IBM Research – including IBM’s post-quantum cryptography algorithms – and IBM Consulting.
IBM Guardium Quantum Safe helps organisations gain visibility and manage enterprise cryptographic security posture to address vulnerabilities and guide remediation. It allows organisations to enforce policies based on external, internal, and government regulations by pulling crypto algorithms used in code, vulnerabilities detected in code, and network usages into a single dashboard for security analysts to monitor policy violations and track progress – without having to piece together information distributed across various systems, tools, and departments. Guardium Quantum Safe offers customisable metadata and flexible reporting so that critical vulnerabilities can be prioritised for remediation.
IBM Guardium AI Security manages security risk and data governance requirements for sensitive AI data and AI models. It helps discover AI deployments, address compliance, mitigate vulnerabilities, and protect sensitive data in AI models through a common view of data assets. IBM Guardium AI Security integrates with IBM watsonx and other generative AI SaaS providers. For example, IBM Guardium AI Security helps discover “shadow AI” models and then shares them with IBM watsonx.governance, so they no longer elude governance.
An integrated approach for a transformative time
Hybrid cloud-, AI-, and quantum-era risks mean key data – from medical records and financial transactions to IP and critical infrastructure – require new forms of protection. During this transformative time, organisations urgently need a trusted partner and an integrated approach to data security – not a patchwork of point solutions. IBM is pioneering this integrated approach.
IBM Guardium Quantum Safe dovetails with broader Quantum Safe offerings from IBM Consulting and Research. The software is powered by technology and research developed by IBM Research. Several of IBM Research’s post-quantum cryptography algorithms were recently standardised by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), marking a crucial milestone to protect the world’s encrypted data from the risk of bad actors who may gain access to cryptographically relevant quantum computers to carry out cyberattacks in the future.
IBM Consulting’s Quantum Safe Transformation Services leverage these technologies to help organisations define risks, inventory and prioritise them, confront them – and then scale the process. IBM Consulting’s cybersecurity bench includes scores of professionals with experience in cryptography and quantum safe technology. Dozens of clients in telecommunications, finance, government, and other industries leverage IBM Quantum Safe Transformation Services to help safeguard their organisations against future risks and present risks like harvest now, decrypt later.
IBM today is also adding decentralised identity features to its Verify portfolio: IBM Verify Digital Credentials enables users to store and manage their own credentials. The feature digitises physical credentials like drivers’ licences, insurance cards, loyalty cards, and employee badges, which can then be standardised, stored, and shared with comprehensive security, privacy protection, and control. IBM Verify is an IAM (identity access management) solution that protects identity across the hybrid cloud.