IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center

Address unified security, compliance and risk visibility across hybrid multicloud environments

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Overview

Monitoring workloads for security and compliance

IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection is the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for hybrid multicloud.

It is a comprehensive security solution providing visibility, posture management and workload protection across hybrid multicloud environments. Centrally manage your organization‘s security, risk and compliance to regulatory standards and industry benchmarks. Enable security and DevOps teams with policy as code, secure sensitive data and protect workloads with real-time threat detection and vulnerability management.

Simplify compliance, strengthen security, and gain actionable insights across hybrid multicloud environments by using predefined and customized policies aligned with industry regulations and sovereignty requirements, proactive workload-centric protection, real-time vulnerability management, and automated policy-as-code to reduce audit readiness efforts, mitigate security risks, and improve visibility into security, compliance, and risk across critical workloads.

Features

Protect workloads and simplify compliance

Visibility into cloud assets, identities (CIEM), misconfigurations and risks across hybrid cloud. Create multicloud environments with built-in industry-based compliance protocols for audit readiness.

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Secure containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift and hosts with out-of-the-box runtime security, container forensics and incident response, so you can better understand security breaches and your compliance needs.

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Leverage a unified view of security risks across posture, identity, vulnerabilities and runtime events. Correlate unified risk findings and analyze paths for potential attacks across hybrid multicloud workloads.

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Automate CI/CD pipeline, block vulnerabilities in before production and investigate suspicious activity with real-time visibility by detecting and prevent drift across applications.

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Gain visibility into cloud identities to manage permissions, identify inactive or excessive permissions, and optimize access policies to simplify meeting identity and access management security needs.

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Detect misconfigurations and compliance gaps for hybrid multicloud and AI workloads, and enforce policy-driven AI and sovereign controls for data residency, access governance, and alignment with jurisdiction-specific regulations.

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Use cases

Meet compliance and sovereignty requirements

Sovereign compliance

Demonstrating and enforcing sovereign cloud control with built-in policies for Banking and Financial, Government, Healthcare and other regulated industries

Organizations operating in sovereign cloud environments must not only meet strict jurisdictional and data residency requirements, but also continuously demonstrate compliance with clear, audit-ready evidence as regulatory scrutiny increases—especially for AI workloads.

Solution: IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection supports an IBM Cloud Sovereignty Risk Profile by applying an out-of-the-box sovereign compliance policy that translates sovereignty requirements into measurable controls and continuous monitoring. This enables organizations to enforce data residency, encryption, and operational control guardrails while generating evidence to help demonstrate compliance across sovereign cloud and AI workloads for Financial, Government, Healthcare and other regulated industries.

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