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There’s a reason why our clients trust IBM to provide the services and solutions to help them address their security and privacy needs: We’re an industry leader -- with the experience, knowledge and solutions to address a wide spectrum of challenges.
Why IBM?
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There’s a reason why our clients trust IBM to provide the services and solutions to help them address their security and privacy needs: We’re an industry leader -- with the experience, knowledge and solutions to address a wide spectrum of challenges.

Industry expertise, proven solutions and sound guidance

  • We offer a broad range of security solutions designed to help you safeguard your information assets, pursue new business initiatives and  identify potential problems before they occur.
  • Our knowledgeable practitioners bring proven methodologies and innovative approaches that can help you keep on top of evolving security requirements.
  • We can help you develop a  security posture that corresponds with your risk tolerance and compliance requirements.
  • Our approach integrates industry practices in security policy, process and technology with subject matter expertise, enhanced by our years of experience in the industry.

 

A broad range of solutions

  • Our security services are designed so they can be tailored to meet your unique needs and issues.
  • Our services can assist you in creating a security enhanced environment for your customers, partners and employees to conduct business.
  • We can help you identify possible security exposures and recommend solutions tailored to your business requirements.
  • We have services designed to help you monitor and safeguard your IT infrastructure from potential threats.
  • We can address and help you integrate both IT security and physical security requirements.
  • We use automation and autonomic computing to help your infrastructure recover in  a “self-healing” manner.

 

Knowledgeable security practitioners

  • We have experienced security professionals with experience solving security problems for various industries.
  • We have performed a broad array of client engagements around the world addressing various security concerns.
  • Our security professionals have an understanding of both business and technology issues.
  • We have tested methodologies for rapid and cost-effective deployment of capabilities.
  • We offer end-to-end capabilities, from an initial policy formulation all the way through to tool implementation.
  • We have over 3,500 dedicated people in the IBM Security and Privacy community of practice, distributed across 120 sites in 77 countries.

 

Proven methodologies and innovative approaches in the security space

  • We develop and publish the Global Security Index on a daily and monthly basis,  which provides timely IT intelligence information, to help customers prevent, mitigate and remediate IT threats
  • Working in collaboration with five IBM Research labs, the Security and Privacy team is engaged in ongoing development of new security technologies and methods in areas such as:
    • Biometrics
    • Wireless security
    • Privacy technology
    • Encryption technology
    • Digital media technology
    • Collaborative data sharing
    • Intrusion detection analysis
  • IBM holds more security and privacy copyrights and patents than any other company.The collaborative efforts of IBM have yielded new technologies and methods such as:
    • IBM Smart Surveillance System (S3) -- An open framework for event-based surveillance
    • IBM Cancelable Biometrics – Technology for enhancing privacy and security in biometric applications
  • We created the Data Centric Security Model to help our clients take a more holistic approach to protecting data assets
  • IBM co-founded the Trusted Computing Group with leading technology companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Intel, and Sun for security and co-developed a Web Services Security family of specifications
 
Recognized as a leading provider
  • A best-in-class provider of security operations (Source:  Aberdeen, June 2005)
  • One of the most trusted security service vendors in North America and Europe (Source:  Yankee, 2004)
  • Second in market share for providers of managed security services (Source:  Frost & Sullivan, August 2004)

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