IBM Security Roadmap
Unified threat management, quantum-safe cryptography, and semiconductor innovations secure multi-cloud, decentralized environments.
Security
Roadmap
Strategic milestones
All information being released represents IBM’s current intent, is subject to change or withdrawal, and represents only goals and objectives.
You can learn more about the progress of individual items by downloading the PDF in the top right corner.
2023
Use secure foundation models in unified threat management to protect high-value assets.
In 2023, the protection of high-value assets in the hybrid cloud will tighten with unified threat management and compliance. AI will raise the mean time to failure and lower the mean time to recovery to within an hour.
2024
Drive multicloud cyber resiliency with automated and intelligent security and compliance.
In 2024, we will leverage automation and generative AI to strengthen defenses and optimize risk posture with continuous compliance. This will lead to fewer failures and faster response and will make organizations more resilient.
2025
Quantum-safe cryptography and a secure supply chain are the norm.
In 2025, we will protect multicloud deployments with quantum-safe cryptography and a secure supply chain of software and services to address security threats of quantum computing and open-source software vulnerabilities.
2027
Secure insights and data while in use with robust AI and fully homomorphic encryption.
By 2027, technologies like fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and robust AI will be widely used to protect enterprises against data breaches and adversarial AI.
2029
Use security to bring trust to a decentralized digital world.
By 2029, we will bring security and management of trust across decentralized computing/digital environments with self-sovereign identity and digital assets. This will bring protection and trust to IT deployments and sovereign clouds.
2030+
Secure semiconductor chips and power ubiquitous controls.
By 2030, security controls will be incorporated along the full computing stack, from the lowest level up, and across multicloud applications and systems.