What's new

New features, functions, and enhancements in IBM Guardium® Data Security Center.

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If content appears in both SaaS and on-prem, add it to this file and then add it as a conref to both sections below. If content only appears in SaaS, add it here only. If content only appears in on-prem, add it here only.

December 2024

API integration
Load Guardium Data Security Center data sets by leveraging external system APIs to retrieve data, simplifying the use of Guardium as a central hub for data security operations. For more information, see Creating an API integration.
Risk events enhancement
Learn about the risk events quickly and efficiently with enhanced view of the policy violation details, risk indicators, and more results for advanced users to analyze. On the Risk events page, drill down to any risk event to view the enhanced information on the side panel that displays the information about the outlier and its activity. View full reports, expand Risk indicators to view the results of an hourly analysis of activity, exceptions, policy violations, and anomalies. Advance users can expand the Advance analysis tab to view more results.
Support added for new regulations
Data Compliance Three new compliance regulations were added: Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). For more information, see Setting up a data compliance program.
Improved design and user experience
DSPM The Data inventory, Vulnerabilities and Third parties pages of Guardium DSPM have an improved design and user experience to help you navigate through the pages easily and get more customized information:
  • Enhanced accessibility and interactive design across pages.
  • Cumulative insights and connected navigation experience helps you view information about the data stores that are affected by the vulnerabilities in the side panel of the Vulnerabilities page.
  • The Data inventory page provides simplified identification of unsupported data stores (data stores with specific characteristics that are not supported for classification) and unclassified data stores (data stores that require additional manual configuration due to enhanced security requirements). This enhancement allows self service identification resulting in increased classification coverage of sensitive data.
  • Added timestamp for the last classification date of a data store in the Data inventory page helps you track the classification status of the data store.
  • Resource location now shows its full path for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP in the Data inventory page to locate the exact location of the resource easily.
Support added for new sensitivities
DSPM Added new sensitivities in personal, financial, identifiable, and confidential categories for the following countries to provide more coverage:
  • Japan
  • Argentina
  • Peru
  • Poland
  • India
  • Singapore
  • Finland
  • Croatia
Security fixes
DSPM Added support for the classification of new file types (.env, .dot, .git, dotx) as shadow data in all the cloud storage buckets. Upgraded security for DSPM Analyzer to apply the latest security vulnerability fixes. DSPM Analyzer has also been enhanced for a two-way identity verification, which adds an additional security layer that protects the user environment.

November 2024

Introducing IBM Guardium Data Security Center SaaS

IBM Guardium Data Security Center SaaS is a unified data security platform that allows you to manage the full data security lifecycle, from discovery to remediation, for varied data types and across data environments.

The modules of IBM® Guardium Data Security Center include :
  • Data Compliance IBM Guardium Data Compliance: Programmatically simplify data regulation needs, enhance visibility, and streamline monitoring.
  • DDR IBM Guardium DDR: Safeguard your data with ready-to-use integrations that enable your SOC to locate signals in the noise.
  • DSPM IBM Guardium DSPM: Automatically discover, classify and secure your data across multiple cloud environments and SaaS applications.
  • AI Security IBM Guardium AI Security: Manage the security risk of sensitive data being used in AI models. Discover AI deployments, mitigate vulnerabilities in AI models and protect sensitive data, while meeting regulatory requirements.

New features and enhancements:

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Edge gateway must be moved to the Jan section when it's ready.
Reports
Analyze data by easily navigating between reports that use similar attributes, saving time and clicks.
Tasks
Track tasks that are to be done based on the data created by the product and generated by individual events.
Assets
DDR Leverage a single source of truth for asset types such as databases, applications, endpoints, storage, and models across the Guardium Data Security Center. Use the interactive asset topology to visualize relationships between the asset entities in a graphical format.
IBM Guardium DSPM
DSPM You can use IBM Guardium DSPM to discover, analyze, and recommend protection and compliance for your cloud data. Click Get started > Data Security Posture Management in the left navigation pane of Guardium Data Security Center to connect your cloud accounts with Guardium DSPM, view the list of connected data sources, and manage the vulnerabilities discovered in the data sources. Existing customers of IBM Guardium DSPM can navigate to the different functions as follows:
  • The Data inventory menu item is in Assets > Cloud and SaaS stores
  • The Vulnerabilities menu item is in Intelligence > Vulnerabilities > Cloud and data stores
  • The third-party menu item is in Intelligence > Third parties
  • Cloud accounts menu item is in Configurations > Connection > Cloud accounts
Guardium AI Security
AI Security You can use IBM Guardium AI Security to discover, analyze, and recommend protection and compliance for your AI deployments. Click Get started > AI Security in the left navigation pane of Guardium Data Security Center to connect your AI service providers with Guardium AI Security, view the list of connected AI deployments, and manage the list of vulnerabilities discovered in the AI deployments. Connect with IBM watsonx.governance to monitor all the discovered AI deployments of various cloud accounts.