IBM best-of-breed security controls
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ combines industry-leading technology with skilled professionals to help deliver a strong security posture.
As a managed cloud offering, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ can offer improved visibility into activities and threats to your account. Skilled IBM professionals monitor the environments of thousands of client accounts for security threats. These experts then apply the security intelligence gained from this daily activity monitoring and reporting to your account.
Additional security capabilities include:
- Unified endpoint management to help manage compliance and configuration
- Identity and access management to help ensure accountability of user access
- Advanced network threat protection and hardened system isolation, including different security zones based on your needs
- Time-tested, enterprise-grade security policies that are regularly validated
- Controls at the management layer, which includes the global and site management tooling, such as the self-service portal and the provisioning engine
- Controls at the managed layer, which includes servers, routers and storage devices
- Hosting in a Tier-3 data center with enhanced physical security
- Strict adherence to IBM corporate patch and vulnerability scanning management practices
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 27001/2-based information security (ISeC) agreements that support industry and regulatory requirements
- Hardened operating system (OS) images, regularly validated to ISeC controls with optional host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) and host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS)
- Automated validation of ISeC security controls
- Automated processes for service activation and deactivation (SA&D) and patch management
- Standard identity federation methods to support existing enterprise directory
Optional security services from IBM Security Services
IBM Security Services offers a rich portfolio of services powered by IBM X-Force® security research and development. Managed security offerings that can enhance your security profile include vulnerability management, application security management, security event and log management, and intrusion detection and prevention.