IBM Security’s Cloud Workload Protection services were built to provide assessment, solution design, implementation, and managed security services that will help you to secure your cloud workloads
IBM Security Services for Cloud will provide managed security services with dedicated security expertise that helps monitor and manage the security of your cloud-native environments through build, ship, and run-time phases:
Application policy management: Automated app behavior analysis, policy assignment to apps; custom app policy optimization; L3 and L7 firewall optimization and configuration
Vulnerability management: Automated vulnerability ranking to visually identify rogue containers, registries, images or applications for prioritized remediation
Threat management: End-to-end threat management strategy that helps you identify, protect, and detect advanced threats – and if necessary, respond/recover from disruptions
With Cloud Workload Protection Services, coverage for cloud workloads is delivered, regardless of where they are running:
Securing the image
Design of the “validate stage”
Detection of configuration defects
Define registry scanning policies
Securing orchestration
Implement RBAC policies
Implement proper API controls
Design/implement workload security zones
Securing containers
Set up vulnerability management
Monitor/control unbounded network access
Detect and fix insecure runtime configs
Securing hosts
Harden and scan host OS and running apps
Segregation of host resources
Ensure the use of configuration management and effective authentication
Securing serverless infrastructure
Audit processes
Implement runtime controls
Develop policies for effective authentication
Key value
Assessment: Assess your current state of existing container environment by analyzing DevSecOps processes, application design, and solution requirement to find gaps and build a roadmap for your future state
Design: After assessment, our security experts can design solutions based on the future state roadmap – including macro and micro design, process definitions, and workload-centric security policies
Implementation: We will help implement appropriate security tooling to help deployment planning, container solution implementation, and 3rd party integrations
Management: Once at steady state, we can provide continuous monitoring and compliance reporting, incident analysis and response, policy governance, and proactive vulnerability management through our X-Force Red services that allow for vulnerability ranking for prioritized remediation
Key benefits
With IBM Security experts, limited resource time is optimized by helping identify/analyze vulnerabilities with shift-left expertise
Centralized visibility to minimizes risks with 24x7x365 proactive container event monitoring, alerting, and vulnerability and threat management
Security policies governance which enables security governance for workload-centric security policies, IT policy management and enforcement
Secure application development that transforms people, process, and technology to unify Security and DevOps
Security at cloud speed to innovate securely through infrastructure automation and scalable security