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Build data security into your IT infrastructure to help reduce risk

The tremendous growth of social, mobile, virtualization and cloud technologies in the enterprise presents profound security and compliance challenges across your IT environment. IBM systems offer robust file and data encryption with real-time monitoring for greater visibility. Our advanced identity management solutions enable you to manage user access control and authorization and improve accountability.

These industry-leading features help you:

 
  • Reduce server and storage overhead

    Reduce server and storage overhead

  • Meet regulatory and industry compliance

    Meet regulatory and industry compliance

  • Keep critical business data secure

    Keep critical business data secure

  • Respond quickly to problems as they occur

    Respond to problems in real time

80% of new aplications will be distributed via the cloud

Source: Ponemon Institute, 2011 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States, March 2012

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Security. Intelligence. Integration. Expertise.

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Learn how IBM can help provide an integrated ecosystem of security capabilities.

Global reputational risk and IT study

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Read this report to learn what IBM recommends to help prevent the IT risks that most affect your reputation.

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New products for security and compliance

Learn about new PowerSC products that can better enable security administrators secure systems and document actions.

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Security-ready IT: a fundamental imperative

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Shelley Westman, Security VP and BLE for STG, shares insight on security and IT on the Smarter Computing blog.

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Smarter Computing blog: Reputational risk and IT

Learn how security and business continuity can shape your company's reputation.

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Enterprise systems perspectives

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Simplify critical information to comply, reduce risk and protect.

IBM Global Technology Services

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Manage risk, security, and compliance with IBM Global Technology Services.

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Join the conversation: IBM experts share their thoughts

Author, Karin Broecker

Reputational risk and IT security: Not your usual snoozefest

Posted By Karin Broecker

The economic value of a company’s reputation declines an average of 21 percent as a result of an IT breach of customer data, according to a study by the Ponemon Institute. That’s no small potatoes when it comes to lost business—an average of US $332 million. That number, in my mind, is staggering. It is the conversation starter, the reason to develop a proactive strategy around IT security and risk management.

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