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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 while implementing security posture management to ensure visibility, security, and compliance of sensitive data in the cloud.
Benefits
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 cybersecurity 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.
Capabilities Data security

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.

 GenAI security

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

 

 

 Quantum safe transformation

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

 

 
Security for AI Transformation Services
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Build and adopt AI that is secure, safe and trustworthy

The GenAI 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 vulnerabilities1. 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 Services
 Discover how IBM unifies agentic governance and security See how to adopt agentic AI with our Security for AI solutions
Dig into the New Threats of 2025 with X-Force
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Armed with the insights of our X-Force 2025 Threat Intelligence Index report, our team can help you secure your business against cyber threats. We are offering briefings with our expert team of intelligence analysts to give you customized insights about your organization.

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Use cases
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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, decreasing the risk of data breaches and regulatory risks while increasing 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
Dinesh is a Global Partner in IBM Consulting, Cybersecurity Services, and has over 20 years of cybersecurity consulting and transformation experience. He regularly advises CxOs in the domains of data security, DevSecOps, quantum safe security services, and cryptography strategy. Dinesh serves clients in advisory assignments from delivery of solutions, to advancing operational security activities.
Antti Ropponen
With over 18 years in the cybersecurity industry, Antti is an experienced cybersecurity professional with a passion for protecting sensitive data and applications from cyber threats. As the Executive Partner and Global leader for data and application security at IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Services, he brings a deep understanding of data and application security best practices, and a breadth of knowledge regarding emerging threats and vulnerabilities. Areas of expertise include data security, quantum safe cryptography, application security, secure DevOps, cloud security, and security strategy.
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