Industry-leading hardware security for robust data protection and resilient cyberdefense in the AI era.
Join us on Tuesday, September 15th 10:00 AM EDT to see how IBM Z and our security solutions help organizations strengthen threat detection and response across mission-critical environments.
Next-generation data security
Hardware-rooted trust from silicon through software. IBM Z® integrates security across the processor, cryptographic hardware, firmware and platform architecture.
As AI increases the speed and scale at which vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploited, IBM Z provides a secured-by-design foundation that helps organizations continuously protect critical operations. IBM Z protects data at rest, in transit and in use with integrated encryption and post-quantum cryptography. While the AI-enabled IBM Telum II® processor supports real-time fraud detection and high-volume AI inferencing at the point of transaction.
Together, these capabilities help organizations strengthen compliance, maintain trust and build resilience against evolving cyberthreats.
Built-in solutions to help you get started
Prepare for post-quantum, leverage advanced encryption and key management built to withstand future quantum computing threats. IBM Z integrates post-quantum algorithms directly into its cryptographic processors for long-term protection.
Start by identifying where cryptography is used. IBM Z Crypto Discovery and Inventory (zCDI) provides visibility into cryptographic assets to help guide compliance and quantum-safe modernization.
The IBM Telum processor enables high-volume AI inferencing, real-time fraud detection and anomaly detection at the point of transaction, helping organizations protect critical transactions and workloads. Transparent Memory Encryption, built into the processor, helps protect sensitive data in main memory without requiring application changes.
Provides encryption for Fibre Channel and FICON links, ensuring secure data transfers between storage systems (such as IBM DS8000®) and IBM Z platforms to maintain confidentiality and prevent data interception.
Uses a trusted execution environment (TEE) to isolate Linux workloads securely. It protects against unauthorized access and insider threats while ensuring application integrity and confidentiality.
A dedicated cryptographic coprocessor that can be configured as a tamper-responding hardware security module (HSM). It supports secure key generation, encryption and digital signing, with protected key operations for both classical and quantum-safe algorithms.
Simplifies and secures management of hardware security modules (HSMs) across IBM Z and LinuxONE. It provides compliant, hardware-based security controls for cryptographic key handling.
Prepare for post-quantum, leverage advanced encryption and key management built to withstand future quantum computing threats. IBM Z integrates post-quantum algorithms directly into its cryptographic processors for long-term protection.
Start by identifying where cryptography is used. IBM Z Crypto Discovery and Inventory (zCDI) provides visibility into cryptographic assets to help guide compliance and quantum-safe modernization.
The IBM Telum processor enables high-volume AI inferencing, real-time fraud detection and anomaly detection at the point of transaction, helping organizations protect critical transactions and workloads. Transparent Memory Encryption, built into the processor, helps protect sensitive data in main memory without requiring application changes.
Provides encryption for Fibre Channel and FICON links, ensuring secure data transfers between storage systems (such as IBM DS8000®) and IBM Z platforms to maintain confidentiality and prevent data interception.
Uses a trusted execution environment (TEE) to isolate Linux workloads securely. It protects against unauthorized access and insider threats while ensuring application integrity and confidentiality.
A dedicated cryptographic coprocessor that can be configured as a tamper-responding hardware security module (HSM). It supports secure key generation, encryption and digital signing, with protected key operations for both classical and quantum-safe algorithms.
Simplifies and secures management of hardware security modules (HSMs) across IBM Z and LinuxONE. It provides compliant, hardware-based security controls for cryptographic key handling.
Use cases
IBM Z turns the NIST Cybersecurity Framework into action
IBM Z integrates security across the processor, cryptographic hardware, firmware and platform architecture. As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, this secure-by-design foundation helps organizations identify exposure, protect critical data and workloads, detect risk earlier, accelerate response and restore trusted operations.
- Identify
- Protect
- Detect
- Respond & Recover
Identify exposure before it becomes disruption
Locate configuration gaps, critical assets, compliance controls and cryptographic exposures across IBM Z. Visibility into keys, safeguards and sensitive data helps prioritize risk and guide quantum-safe modernization.
Explore Solutions:
- IBM Z Crypto Discovery & Inventory: Simplify discovery of cryptographic assets on the Z platform and prepare for a quantum safe journey.
- IBM zSecure Compliance: Simplify audits and maintain continuous compliance with the combined power of IBM zSecure Audit and the IBM Z Security and Compliance Center.
Protect data and establish hardware-rooted trust
Replace delayed human intervention with proactive protection for critical access, applications, and data.
Explore Solutions:
- IBM zSecure Secret Manager: Streamline certificate lifecycle management on z/OS through integration with IBM Vault Self-Managed for Z and LinuxONE. Automate certificate renewal, reduce operational complexity, and help maintain trust across mission-critical applications.
- IBM Unified Key Orchestrator: Ensure comprehensive protection of sensitive data through encryption and secure access controls, mitigating risks of unauthorized access or data breaches. Enhance overall compliance and safeguard against potential threats to your data center.
- IBM Z Multi-factor Authentication (MFA): Strengthen access security for mission-critical workloads on IBM Z by adding an extra layer of user authentication. Enhance access control through multi-factor authentication to ensure that only authorized users can access critical systems.
- IBM zSecure Admin: Simplify compliance management for z/OS systems with robust auditing, monitoring and reporting tools. Meet regulatory requirements and maintain data integrity and security standards with automated compliance checks and detailed reports.
Identify suspicious activity faster
Catch suspicious behavior and emerging threats before encryption, data destruction, or business disruption can occur.
Explore solutions:
- IBM zSecure Detection: Identify, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity across IBM z/OS with near real-time threat monitoring and AI-driven access anomaly detection. Strengthen cyber resilience with greater visibility, integrated response capabilities, and network micro-segmentation.
Accelerate remediation and maintain business continuity
Freeze attackers in real time and rapidly restore trusted operations using protected, tamper-resistant recovery data.
Explore solutions:
- IBM zSecure Detection: Identify, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity across IBM z/OS with near real-time threat monitoring and AI-driven access anomaly detection. Strengthen cyber resilience with greater visibility, integrated response capabilities, and network micro-segmentation.
- IBM zSecure Compliance: Simplify audits and maintain continuous compliance with the combined power of IBM zSecure Audit and the IBM Z Security and Compliance Center.
- IBM Z Cyber Vault: Accelerate investigation, isolate impacted data and workloads, and leverage tamper-proof cyber recovery processes to restore clean system states with confidence.
