Data and AI security services

Comprehensive protection for enterprise data, applications and AI

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Bolster your security posture

Data and AI play a vital role in today’s digital economy, enabling organizations to innovate, adapt and stay competitive. That’s why ensuring the security of these essential elements ultimately means driving better outcomes.

Industry-leading IBM CyberDefend® experts will help build an actionable roadmap and co-develop enhanced AI-enabled data classification. They will also implement security posture management to ensure visibility, security and compliance of sensitive data in the cloud.

Capabilities

Provides help along your cloud journey

Consulting, systems integration and managed security services help protect critical data, on premises or on a hybrid cloud.

Simplifies audit and compliance workflows

Centralized visibility across cloud environments and continuous threat monitoring help you prepare for audits and reporting.

Protects and mitigates security risks

Continuous data discovery, classification and baselining, access policy control and ongoing security services and vulnerability management.

Optimizes time of limited resources

Build a robust, cost-effective data security roadmap by shifting security staff hiring and training to IBM data security experts.

Use cases

Strengthen data security with AI

Assess and improve the current state of your data security governance, tools and processes with assistance from industry-leading experts, powered by advanced agentic AI.

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Secure your AI data and platform

Secure the training and testing data, the underlying platform and the AIOps technology and processes.

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Accelerate your quantum‑safe readiness

Gain a structured, proactive approach to quantum-safe readiness, ensuring cryptographic resilience, data protection and regulatory compliance.

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Security for AI transformation services

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Build and adopt AI that is secure, safe and trustworthy

The gen AI market is rapidly evolving and expected to continue growing in the next few years. However, cybersecurity is emerging as a critical impediment to effective AI adoption with 84% of executives concerned about widespread or catastrophic cybersecurity attacks that could introduce new vulnerabilities. 

Security for AI transformation services allows organizations to build and adopt AI that is secure, safe and trustworthy. These services include:

  • Security Assessment and Governance Strategy
  • Secure Posture Management
  • Secure Integration and Run Services
  • Security Testing Service
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Case studies
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North American technology company

The Data Security Services team enabled the organization’s privacy and data officers at all levels to uncover, analyze and visualize data-related business risks and take corrective action. The solution enabled the company to visualize data risks across thousands of applications, respond to audits, report to executives and avoid fines resulting from non-compliance with GDPR and other regulations.

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Global telco

With the assistance of Data Security Services experts, this telecommunications company encrypted their sensitive data. This action decreased the risk of data breaches and regulatory risks while increasing the use of automation to upscale their encryption use with ease. The client can now integrate key management with other cloud providers, notably AWS and GCP.

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Major US airline

Working with Data Security Services experts, the airline achieved accelerated security operations maturity, maximized native cloud security controls and enhanced security posture and compliance for their 500+ applications and data. Business operations were modernized with improved cyber resilience in their cloud environments and reduced defects and risks that could lead to financial loss.

Meet our experts

Dinesh Nagarajan
Global Partner, Security Services
Antti Ropponen
Executive Partner, Security Services

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