IBM has launched its Guardium Data Security Center, a unified platform providing comprehensive data security capabilities for hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum environments. The center offers a single dashboard for security teams to monitor and manage data assets throughout their lifecycle, addressing risks associated with emerging technologies. IBM’s Akiba Saeedi, Vice President of Security Product Management, emphasized the need for organizations to improve their crypto-agility and carefully monitor AI models, training data, and usage during this transformative time.
The Guardium Data Security Center features two key components: IBM Guardium AI Security, which protects AI deployments from security vulnerabilities and data governance policy violations, and IBM Guardium Quantum Safe, which helps clients safeguard encrypted data from potential future cyberattacks driven by bad actors with access to quantum computers. The latter builds upon expertise from IBM Research, including post-quantum cryptography algorithms recently standardized by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Advancing Secure AI and Quantum Safe Technology with IBM Guardium Data Security Center
The advent of hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and quantum computing has introduced new risks to traditional data security paradigms. In response, IBM has launched the IBM Guardium Data Security Center, a unified, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides comprehensive data security capabilities across various environments. This center enables organizations to protect their data throughout its lifecycle with unified controls.
The IBM Guardium Data Security Center offers a common view of an organization’s data assets, empowering security teams to integrate workflows and address data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, AI security posture management, and cryptography management in a single dashboard. The platform also features generative AI capabilities that help generate risk summaries and boost security professionals’ productivity.
Protecting AI Deployments with IBM Guardium AI Security
The increasing adoption of generative AI has introduced new risks, including the presence of unsanctioned models, known as “shadow AI.” To address this, IBM Guardium Data Security Center features IBM Guardium AI Security, software that helps protect organizations’ AI deployments from security vulnerabilities and data governance policy violations. This software manages security risk and data governance requirements for sensitive AI data and AI models, enabling the discovery of AI deployments, addressing compliance, mitigating vulnerabilities, and protecting sensitive data in AI models.
IBM Guardium AI Security integrates with IBM WatsonX and other generative AI SaaS providers, helping to discover “shadow AI” models and share them with IBM WatsonX governance, ensuring they no longer evade governance. This integrated approach enables organizations to improve their crypto-agility and carefully monitor their AI models, training data, and usage.
Safeguarding Encrypted Data with IBM Guardium Quantum Safe
The potential risk of future cyberattacks driven by bad actors gaining access to cryptographically relevant quantum computers has introduced a new level of vulnerability to encrypted data. To address this, IBM Guardium Data Security Center features IBM Guardium Quantum Safe, software that helps safeguard encrypted data from these risks. This platform is powered by technology and research developed by IBM Research, including post-quantum cryptography algorithms recently standardized by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
IBM Consulting’s Quantum Safe Transformation Services leverage these technologies to help organizations define risks, inventory and prioritize them, confront them, and then scale the process. This comprehensive approach enables organizations to protect their encrypted data from both present and future risks.
An Integrated Approach for a Transformative Time
The hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum era requires new forms of protection for key data, including medical records, financial transactions, intellectual property, and critical infrastructure. IBM is pioneering an integrated approach to data security, recognizing that organizations need a trusted partner and a comprehensive solution rather than a patchwork of point solutions.
IBM’s Verify portfolio has also been expanded to include decentralized identity features, enabling users to store and manage their own credentials securely. This feature digitizes physical credentials like drivers’ licenses, insurance cards, loyalty cards, and employee badges, which can then be standardized, stored, and shared with comprehensive security, privacy protection, and control.
By advancing secure AI and quantum safe technology through the IBM Guardium Data Security Center, organizations can better protect their data and stay ahead of emerging risks in the hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum era.
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