Connecting IBM Guardium AI Security with IBM watsonx cloud accounts

You can connect one or more IBM watsonx subscriptions with IBM Guardium AI Security by using an API key that provisions Guardium AI Security to your cloud environment to discover AI deployments across the subscriptions.

Before you begin

AI Security This content is available through the Guardium AI Security module.

Verify that you have the following before you start the process of connecting your IBM watsonx cloud accounts with Guardium AI Security:

  • List of IBM watsonx subscriptions to be connected to Guardium AI Security
  • An IBM watsonx user with the permission to create the relevant service principals

For more information about the service principals, see Results.

Use the following steps to connect Guardium AI Security with one or more cloud accounts:

Procedure

  1. Do either of the following tasks:
    • In the main menu, click Get started>AI security, click the Connect your AI service provider card, and then click Add connections in the Connections page.
    • In the main menu, click Configurations>Connections>AI accountsand then click Add connections in the Connections page.
  2. In the Add connections dialog box, select the IBM Cloud watsonx.ai card, and then click Next.
  3. In the Paste secret key tab of the Add connections dialog box, perform the steps that are provided in the Paste the secret key form, and then click Save.

    You get either of the following overall status message:

    • Connection added successfully, signifying that the IBM watsonx subscription is connected successfully.
    • Connection addition failed, signifying that connection to the IBM watsonx subscription failed.

Results

While you connect Guardium AI Security to IBM watsonx subscriptions, the following principal is created:
App Registration with Service Principal
Scans and monitors the metadata of the data assets that Guardium AI Security discovers. It is a read-only role with some create permissions mainly with Guardium AI Security resources that are used to retrieve AI deployments metadata that is related to the data, model, and related applications.