IBM Security
Services for Cloud
Security PostureManagement

Moving to the cloud creates
additional governancecomplexity – leading to a larger
attack surface
The cloud may create new opportunity, but it
also creates new challenges for monitoring,
managing, and securing your workloads –especially within hybrid environments:– Lack of visibility and decentralizedadministration– Complexity of compliance management– Inability to rapidly detect and respond

Improve your cloud security
posture with continuous
monitoring and investigation
Through our Cloud Security PostureManagement (CSPM) services, we can providecontinuous visibility, remediation approaches,,and management of compliance requirements
across your multi-cloud environment:– Bring broader visibility to your infrastructure
and assets across clouds– Help ensure consistent security configuration
management– Establish a baseline of best practices forcompliance monitoring and investigation for
anomalies and drifts
Key benefits include:99%

of cloud failures through 2023
will be the customer’s fault1
1

Gartner, Innovation insight for Cloud Security PostureManagement , 2019

– End-to-end cloud security postureassessment, implementation, andmonitoring and investigation services– Comprehensive assessment, and ongoing
visibility of your existing cloud environment– Integrating cloud security posture into yourbroader GRC strategy and DevOps processes– Policy tuning, alert management/remediation
services, and compliance reporting alignedwith your SOC/DevOps processes

Address cloud security and complianceposture management concerns withIBM Security and our ecosystem
partners
With IBM CSPM services, you can get help with assessing,
reducing, and managing risk resulting from reduced
visibility, complex compliance requirements, andmisconfiguration across your growing multi-cloudinfrastructure.
It can be delivered via hyperscalers’ native security
features or via 3rd party solutions in an enterprise or MSSP
(as-a-service) approach.

Alert triage
Policy changes
Investigation support
Compliance alignment– Protect the confidentiality,integrity, and availability of yourcloud resources and workloads– Establish appropriate risk
management strategies for yourcloud environments– Extend cloud governance andcontrols monitoring beyond onpremises environments

CSPMSolution✓ Ingest
configuration andlog data✓ Cloud providerAPIEnterprise services

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Cloud environments

Admins and users• Configure, resolvealerts, and investigate• Web consolemanagement

The key value of IBM’s
CSPM services

IBMX-Force®
ProtectionPlatform✓ Single sign-on✓ Alert notifications✓ Vulnerability data
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Identity management
SIEM and helpdesk
Vulnerability scanners
Automation andexternal integrations• Cloud GRC systems••••