Thanks to the proactive security research and development work of IBM X-Force, one of the world's leading authorities on Internet threats and vulnerabilities, IBM ISS is a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) that offers truly preemptive protection.

IBM ISS' preemptive protection improves operational, financial and strategic efficiencies across your enterprise.

Operational Efficiencies

• Improve system uptime and performance without a large investment in technology and resources.
• Protect your infrastructure and information capital 24/7/365 with security experts around the globe researching and analyzing security issues to protect you from the latest threats and vulnerabilities.
• Maintain compliance with federal, state and industry security regulations with a complete end-to-end solution featuring a custom combination of products, services and methodology for networks, servers, desktops and wireless applications
• Maintain complete control of your network environment from your desk or on-the-go with the feature-rich ISS Managed Security Services Customer Portal.
• Automatically update and apply protection policies to vulnerable systems before an attack ever takes place, without physically applying security patches.
• Instantly analyze and correlate events on your network with real-time advanced correlation and event prioritization tools.
• Preemptively protect your organization before damage can occur with early-warning intelligence from ISS' X-Force security research and development team.

Financial Efficiencies

• Save up to 55% of the cost of managing your information security in-house, allowing you to allocate funds to other imperatives.
• Support future planning and funding for security initiatives with customized executive reports demonstrating solid return on security investments.

Strategic Efficiencies

• Protect your business continuity, company assets and brand reputation by preventing attacks before they damage and disrupt business operations.
• Improve productivity by freeing your IT resources to focus on strategic risk management initiatives.