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IBM’s newly expanded security portfolio promises to close security gaps associated with mobile devices, strengthen the security footing of cloud environments and improve database security around big data environments. The rollout is based on 10 new products and enhancements.
At the mobility level, the Armonk, N.Y.-based company announced risk-based authentication and stronger device control that is intended to protect against both external and internal threats.
"Our customers want to extend their enterprise policies out to the mobile users, as well as to take some of the unique attributes of the end users and build a stronger security policy around them," said Steve Robinson, vice president of product management at IBM Security Systems. "We have also added a few more features for our endpoint management system, so they can check their inventory, see which devices are accessing the network, deploy patches and also push out a standard platform."
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These capabilities resonate with Eric Maass, CTO of Lighthouse Security Group, a Lincoln, R.I.-based security partner. "A large number of our clients are very concerned about people accessing resources over those devices," he said. "So this will provide access control around resources that are very important to our customer base."
IBM has also taken aim at security for cloud environments, given that security is widely viewed as one of the most prominent inhibitors to cloud adoption. The company has rolled out a new SmartCloud for Patch Management solution that automates patch deployment so that security can be quickly and easily kept up to date. IBM has also upgraded its QRadar Security Intelligence platform to support monitoring and analysis from widely distributed locations.
"This is an area where the market continues to evolve fairly rapidly, almost on a daily basis," added Maass. "This eases the way you can integrate clouds and applications, a very positive thing for my clients."
