Zero trust security solutions

Security wrapped around every user, every device and every connection — every time

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Overview

Why implement zero trust security?

Your business gives multiple users access to your company's resources. And despite the different goals and needs of these employees, partners, clients and customers, they all require some level of access to corporate information. The number of connections and resources you need to manage make user verification complex. 

Moving to a hybrid, multicloud infrastructure means your resources are also likely scattered throughout multiple IT environments with varying levels of visibility and control. It’s difficult to know if the right user has the right access to the right data. You need context to help you make the right decisions.

Equally concerning is the prevalence of malicious activity, such as ransomware and phishing, that puts your network, digital assets and business at risk. According to the IBM Cost of Data Breach Report, costs surged 10% from last year.

An IBM zero trust security strategy can help organizations increase their cyber resiliency and manage the risks of a disconnected business environment, while still allowing users access to the appropriate resources. It’s a model and plan that uses context to securely connect the right users to the right data at the right time under the right conditions, while also protecting your organization from cyber threats.

Read "When Implementing Zero Trust, Context Is Everything"

Benefits

Put zero trust into action Fuel business without limits with context-based security. Protect your investments

Save time, money and maximize your current investments by using the tools you have and adding only what you need.

Connect tools easily

Use and connect tools of choice to make your zero trust strategy a reality with ease.

Get help quickly

With experts within reach, you can put zero trust into action faster.

Ready-to-go integrations

Integrate your security tools and systems with an extensive partner ecosystem that can help you complete your overall zero trust strategy.

Use cases

What a zero trust security strategy does Enable your business to move faster and more securely by applying a zero trust security strategy to selected, outcome-focused initiatives. Reduce ransomware attacks

Organizations are turning to a zero trust strategy to modernize security and help prevent ransomware attacks. Zero trust continuously verifies users and helps reduce data exposure if there is a breach.

Protect your organization from ransomware with zero trust
Protect the hybrid cloud

To protect your growth, organizational transformation and all the advantages of hybrid cloud, you need a modernized, reimagined focus on enterprise security with an emphasis on a zero trust approach.

Move confidently to hybrid multicloud with zero trust security
Secure the hybrid, remote workforce

Your security model should allow work from any place on any device with access to tools and data in any ecosystem. It should provide real-time context across all domains, a perfect job for zero trust.

Enable your anywhere workforce with everywhere security

Solutions

Solutions for your zero trust strategies IBM brings a set of technologies, services and strategic partnerships to deliver solutions for your zero trust strategies. Threat detection and response solutions

Gain insights into threats and risks and respond faster with automation with IBM Security® QRadar®, IBM Cloud Pak® for Security and other threat detection and response solutions.

Explore Qradar Explore IBM Cloud Pak for Security
Identity and privileged access management

Centralize workforce and consumer identity and access management (IAM) with IBM Security Verify and reduce the risk of cyberattack with privileged access management (PAM) solutions.

Explore IBM Security Verify Explore PAM solutions
Endpoint and data protection

Manage and secure your mobile workforce with AI-driven unified endpoint management (UEM) like MaaS360® with Watson and protect enterprise data across multiple environments.

Explore MaaS360 Explore data security solutions
Security services

With the industry's broadest portfolio of consulting and global managed security services, IBM Security Services can help you quantify and prioritize your risks.

Explore IBM cybersecurity services Explore a tailored, secure access service edge (SASE) solution
See how IBM has implemented zero trust strategies
Commercial International Bank S.A.E. It's complicated work to keep employees, customers and customer investments protected. So if you're in charge of security at a bank, it helps if you love a challenge. Read CIB's case study

Zero trust at IBM "Zero trust isn't something you can buy or implement. It's a philosophy and a strategy. And to be frank, at IBM, we wouldn't even characterize zero trust as a security strategy. It's an IT strategy done securely." Read more on this IBM CISO's perspective


Next steps

Whether with a security expert to guide you or through exploring for yourself, you can find the right solution for your zero trust security needs here.