Data Security and Protection

Data security overview

Data provides a critical foundation for every operation of your organization. Protecting and using it securely is central to a zero-trust strategy.

Unfortunately, cybercriminals also see the value of data and seek to exploit security vulnerabilities to put your information at risk. Whether on-premises or in hybrid multicloud environments, data security solutions help you gain greater visibility and insights to investigate and remediate threats and enforce real-time controls and compliance

Data security and protection benefits

Discover data security vulnerabilities in real time

Does your security team know where your critical data resides and who has access to it? The key steps in protecting sensitive data include automating visibility, controlling access policies and implementing ongoing monitoring to discover vulnerabilities and risks before they become breaches.

Protect critcal data with data security solutions

What valuable data is at risk in organizations like yours? Personally identifiable information, personal health information, payment card information, intellectual property, and more. An integrated suite of capabilities can tackle cybersecurity gaps in on-premises or hybrid multicloud deployments.

Simplify compliance with regulations

Addressing the growing number of privacy mandates is difficult enough; keeping up with reporting can be another hardship for your team. Simplify the process with automation, analytics and activity monitoring.

IBM Cloud Pak for Security

Integrate security tools to gain insights into threats across hybrid, multicloud environments.

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Data protection solutions

Data protection platform

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Take a smarter, more adaptive approach to protect critical databases, files and more with a comprehensive data security platform. Discover where your data is most at risk across your IT environments, gain contextual insights and analytics, and take action to monitor, protect and mitigate issues.

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Data security services

Transform your cybersecurity strategy. Using data security technologies and expertise, IBM security experts can help you discover, protect and monitor your most sensitive data, wherever it resides.

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Data privacy

Address compliance with privacy mandates, build trust with your stakeholders, and stand out from your competitors as data privacy concerns continue to drive new regulations.

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Cloud data security

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Protect your enterprise hybrid multicloud environment confidently with a cohesive security program, from strategy to threat containment.

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Encryption and cryptography for data protection

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Retain full control of your organization’s sensitive data that is accessed, stored and transmitted by other parties with a combination of technologies and expertise from IBM and our Business Partners.

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Protect critical data

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Tap into the five key practices of our comprehensive approach to critical data protection, from discovery to monitoring.

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Improving public safety through large-scale, open-source data analytics

A government agency sought to turn social media information into actionable insights to better understand the population it serves. IBM Security and IBM Business Partners built a flexible, scalable and secure open-source intelligence solutions to rapidly analyze huge volumes of data.

See how a secure analytics platform can protect citizens

Data security resources

Lay your security and privacy tech foundation

A successful privacy and compliance strategy begins with choosing the right data security and data protection technology.

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Best practices for data encryption and key management

Understand data security trends, challenges and best practices in the hybrid multicloud world.

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Five common data security pitfalls

Data breaches are growing. Do you know how to avoid the top data security pitfalls?

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