Deploying toMicrosoft Azure
requires a robust
cloud security
strategy
Cloud is more than just atechnology change

It is critical to start with an
integrated security strategy

It is a cultural change for your organization.
But, aligning your organization’s businesses
toa holistic cloud security strategy as you
migrate more workloads to Microsoft Azure
isn’t easy. In today’s highly complex multicloud world, where do you start?

When it comes to cloud security, successdepends on integrating your cloud security
strategy with your organization’s overallcybersecurity posture.

IBM Security can assess against virtually any
security regulation and standard to help you
ensure more efficient security throughout
your Microsoft Azure environment.
Our robust cloud security strategy
methodology and framework enables astandardized approach to security across all
cloud service providers, including MicrosoftAzure – complementing your overall
enterprise cloud transformation.

Our cloud security strategy offering is designed
to help you develop security maturity, define
the target state, and then develop acomprehensive plan to achieve it as you
deploy workloads on Microsoft Azure. Keyobjectives include:– Discover your current cloud security
maturity and define a maturity improvement
roadmap across applicable cloud security
domains pertinent to digital identity, data,
infrastructure, applications– Develop a security, risk, and compliancestrategy specific to your industry sector andinternal policies– Develop and implement effective security
solutions that reduce complexity, improvevisibility, and introduce new capabilities
where they are needed– Accelerate secure cloud adoption by
designing automation and orchestration
blueprints for application development andinfrastructure managementValue of our cloud security strategy services
ComplyWith government and industry regulations

Protect

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of yourresources and data workloads

Key benefits– Strategy and roadmap toachieve the required state tooperate in a multi-cloudenvironment

Establish– Reassurance that security will
be performed to the required
level and best-in-class

Extend– Transformation of how security
is performed from traditional tomulti-cloud spaces

Appropriate risk management strategies for your cloudenvironment
Controls beyond on-premises environments withgovernance

Client success story
Partnering with IBM for global cloud strategy, adoption,and security transformation
A global financial services organization partnered with IBM
to exploit the full potential of cloud transformation acrosstheir global footprint by using an enterprise-wide, federated,and secure hybrid cloud architecture – integrating
blockchain that provides dynamic capacity across multiple
clouds, ensuring that the client is prepared for even the most
unexpected demands that may arise.

– Development of common
processes and architecturalrequirements to reduce risk
– Relieves the enterprise ofsecurity design and execution,and provides improved
assurance– Reduces significant risk fromtraditionally unmanaged
vendors by standardizing
vendor management

These efforts resulted in creating the Global Cloud Security
Competency Center that provides agility, local flexibility,efficiency, and cost savings. The cloud strategy provided thedigital and cloud capabilities required by the client to better
serve its customers.

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