Why IBM Security Services?

IBM Security Services provides data correlation across multivendor technologies with cross referencing against global and historic data trends.

• One of the largest and more diverse security information data warehouses in the world, allowing for greater visibility into worldwide threats and affected industries.
• Combination of near-real-time and historical analyses to help identify and mitigate threats and enhance security effectiveness
• Industry best practices, time-tested strategies and advanced forensic tools
• Wide range of security services and customizable subscription models
• Management, monitoring and long-term storage for a single price—and up to seven years of forensic storage for no additional charge

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IBM offers robust security operations and capabilities with:

• 10 security operations centers (SOCs) around the world
• 10 security research centers
• 133 monitored countries
• 20,000-plus devices under contract
• 3,700-plus managed security services (MSS) clients worldwide
• 15 billion-plus monitored events per day
• 15,000 researchers, developers and SMEs on security initiatives, including IBM X-FORCE
• 1,000-plus security and risk management patents
• 40-plus years of time-tested IT security success securing the IBM z-Series® environment

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The IBM X-FORCE research and development team is a leading group of security specialists who research security issues, track the evolution of threats and help deliver increased operational efficiencies by building integrated technologies that feature "baked-in" simplification. IBM X-FORCE underpins the IBM Security Services platform and is the catalyst for continuous security innovation.

• IBM X-FORCE uses its broad and holistic intelligence infrastructure to provide one of the most accurate views of the current and emerging threat landscape.
• IBM Security Services uses this information to help define the more important and pressing security problems of today and tomorrow.
• IBM Security Services then focuses on solving these problems with new technology and solutions in our products and services.

The IBM X-FORCE security research and development teams study the latest threat trends including vulnerabilities, exploits and active attacks, viruses and other malware, spam, phishing, and malicious web content. IBM X-FORCE publishes several reports every year that are available to the public:

• The IBM X-FORCE Trend and Risk Report is published twice yearly. This report provides statistical information about virtually all aspects of internet security threats, including software vulnerabilities, public exploitation, malware, spam, phishing, web-based threats and general cyber criminal activity.
• The Threat Insight Report is published four times a year. This report is designed to highlight some of the most significant threats and challenges security professionals face every day.

In addition to advising customers and the general public on how to respond to emerging and critical threats, IBM X-FORCE delivers security content that can help protect IBM Security Services customers from these threats.

IBM engages in ongoing development of new security technologies and methods as a result of collaboration between IBM Research labs and IBM X-FORCE. Areas of development include:

• Biometrics
• Cloud and virtualization security
• Collaborative data sharing
• Digital media technology
• Encryption technology
• Intrusion detection analysis
• Privacy technology
• Wireless security

IBM holds numerous security and privacy copyrights and patents. Our collaborative efforts have yielded new technologies and methods such as:

• IBM Cancelable Biometrics: Technology for enhancing privacy and security in biometric applications
• IBM Smart Surveillance System (S3): An open framework for event-based surveillance
• IBM Virus Prevention System (VPS): A behavioral virus prevention system

IBM created the Data Centric Security Model to help clients take a more holistic approach to protecting data assets. Additionally, we cofounded the Trusted Computing Group with other leading technology companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Intel and Sun to provide more security-rich computing environments and co-developed the Web Services Security family of specifications as part of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

IBM opened four Trusted Identity Centers of Excellence in Dallas, Texas; San Jose, California; Bangalore, India; and LaGaude, France. These centers are designed to help organizations tie together physical and digital security to better manage the identity lifecycle of their customers and workforce.

Today's businesses must manage more risks with fewer resources. You have to:

• Cut your operational expenses
• Manage increasing risks
• Maintain your compliance posture
• Improve service
• Enable innovation

IBM Security Services can help you strategically manage risk end-to-end across practically all security domains and help you reduce your security operations costs. IBM's security-as-a-service approach helps provide businesses with the solutions and expertise needed to:

• Mitigate, monitor and manage the latest security threats and vulnerabilities
• Reduce the costs of applying the latest security expertise, processes and technologies
• Reduce costs of limiting internal access to—and external release of—sensitive data
• Identify and mitigate the risks of regulatory noncompliance
• Reduce the costs of identity and access management
• Mitigate the increasing risks from application-level vulnerabilities

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IBM Security Services is globally certified to perform all payment card industry (PCI) services and can help wherever you are in the compliance lifecycle.

Unlike many of its competitors, IBM can provide solutions for all 12 PCI requirements, offering efficiencies in interoperability, procurement, maintenance and management.

IBM has been helping clients meet PCI requirements since 2004.

IBM has experience with clients of various sizes, in a wide range of industries and from all over the world.

IBM has a wide range of security product expertise, including: IBM Security Services, IBM Tivoli® Security and IBM Rational® AppScan®.

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