IBM Security Strategy Services for Microsoft Azure

Deploying to Microsoft Azure requires a robust and integrated cloud security strategy that is critical to start with. Cloud security success depends on integrating your cloud security strategy with your organization’s overall cybersecurity posture. The value of IBM Security Services for Cloud Security Strategy is to

• Comply with government and industry regulations
• Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your resources and data workloads
• Establish appropriate risk management strategies for your cloud environment
• Extend controls beyond on-premises environments with governance

IBM Security Services for Cloud Security Strategy offering is designed to help you develop security maturity, define the target state, and then develop a comprehensive plan to achieve it as you deploy workloads on Microsoft Azure. Key objectives 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 compliance strategy specific to your industry sector and internal policies
• Develop and implement effective security solutions that reduce complexity, improve visibility, and introduce new capabilities where they are needed
• Accelerate secure cloud adoption by designing automation and orchestration blueprints for application development and infrastructure management

The value of our cloud security strategy services is to :

• Comply with government and industry regulations
• Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your resources and data workloads
• Establish appropriate risk management strategies for your cloud environmentExtend controls beyond on-premises environments with governance

Key Benefits

• Strategy and roadmap to achieve the required state to operate in a multi-cloud environment
• Reassurance that security will be performed to the required level and best-in-class
• Transformation of how security is performed from traditional to multi-cloud spaces
• Development of common processes and architectural requirements to reduce risk
• Relieves the enterprise of security design and execution, and provides improved assurance
• Reduces significant risk from traditionally unmanaged vendors by standardizing vendor management

Beyond the assessments described, IBM Security Services for Azure can be engaged as consulting & systems integration services and/or managed security services to help clients programmatically grow and transform enterprise security operations. Services can vary both in duration and engagement type. Actual fee will vary depending upon scope. Each customer’s requirements and maturity are uniquely considered to determine the applicable approach, which may consist of:· Cloud security consulting services to develop your Azure security strategy.· Consulting services for the assessment, design, implementation and alignment of Azure native controls with enterprise security operations· Design and build of hybrid multi-cloud security operations centers. Explore More: https://www.ibm.com/security/partners/microsoft-azure