Services for industries
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We offer a range of industry-specific solutions and services to address those industries’ unique challenges to security and privacy.
| Banking |
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Banking priorities and challenges include:
- Reducing costs by convincing customers to use online banking services
- Restoring customer confidence that has been compromised by “phishing” attempts, leaving customers wary of e-mails received from their bank and worried about the security of their personal information
- Addressing the threat of identity theft through increased diligence and protective measures by both the bank and their customers
- Complying with evolving regulations and keeping informed about pending legislation that seeks to reduce risk
- Reducing the risk of costly liability that can result from inadequate data protection
Why IBM?
IBM's subject matter expertise and banking industry experience can help you safeguard your information assets, keep on top of your evolving compliance and regulatory requirements, and identify potential problems before they occur helping you to maintain vital operations with cost-effective and efficient solutions. We offer a broad range of services and industry specific solutions to help your bank pursue new business opportunities in a security-rich manner.
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Risk management and compliance solutions for banking
Enhance business resilience and security for financial services
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Government priorities and challenges include:
- Sharing data across federal agencies and private business, with a particular focus on law enforcement
- Addressing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requirements at all levels
- Identifying the threat of potential terrorist activity to both people and infrastructure and reducing their vulnerability
- Improving communication and coordination of first responders to events
- Optimizing the allocation of security budgets
Why IBM?
IBM's experience in supporting government clients can help you integrate systems and processes to enhance constituent services, share vital information in a security-enhanced environment, recognize threats, and identify potential problems before they occur with cost-effective and efficient solutions that optimize security spending. We offer security and privacy services that can help you operate a more stable, robust and security-enhanced infrastructure and put into a place communication chains that can decrease unauthorized access.
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Business and IT consulting for Homeland Security
Application Hosting – Entrust Hosted Services
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Healthcare priorities and challenges include:
Evaluating enterprise data management – including data stores, data sharing and ensuring proper and appropriate access to data – to better facilitate compliance with HIPAA requirements
- Safeguarding the confidentiality of patient information at all times
Increasing the physical security of data for hospitals that have a 24/7 “open door” policy
Benefiting from the productivity gains in patient care offered by wireless technologies, while reducing the risk of equipment interference
Why IBM?
Put IBM's knowledge of healthcare to work for you. We can help you deliver high quality care and stay on top of regulatory requirements by enabling security-enhanced sharing of critical patient information and reducing errors caused by lost and incomplete data and compromised systems. With our broad range of services you can rely on IBM to deliver cost-effective and efficient solutions that can help you integrate the healthcare partner supply chain with greater security and address the challenges of safeguarding patient care information.
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Regulatory compliance for healthcare and life sciences| Retail |
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Retail priorities and challenges include:
- Managing a more complex security environment in an era of budget reduction pressures, increased privacy requirements and challenges in maintaining in-house skills
- Maintaining data integrity and data privacy – protecting against viruses, external hacking and internal fraud, or logical disruption
Preventing store shrinkage due to employee and customer theft
Ensuring security and efficiency of tendering (payment fraud, credit transactions)
Why IBM?
IBM provides services to help you protect vital customer data, keep on top of your evolving regulatory requirements and identify potential problems before they occur with cost-effective solutions that can optimize your security spending. You can rely on IBM to deliver security and privacy solutions that can help you integrate systems and monitoring technologies – both in-store and across your extended supply chain – to increase business efficiency and manage shrinkage.
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Insurance priorities and challenges include:
- Maintaining a security-enhanced and stable network infrastructure
- Keeping on top of potential security threats posed by emerging technologies
- Safeguarding customers' personal data on devices and across partners
Why IBM?
IBM's experience in the telecommunications industry can help you build, maintain and run a network infrastructure with greater security and reliability – one that can proactively identify IT and physical threats and exposures to improve protection of network assets. With our broad range of services you can rely on IBM to deliver the security and privacy solutions that can help you mitigate the risk of leveraging new technologies and providing robust access controls that maintain customer privacy and protect critical data.
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