There is no doubt the cloud is becoming increasingly important. Organizations are moving applications, IT infrastructure and services to outsourced infrastructures at increasingly rapid rates. However, it isn’t often clear how specific assets and data are affected by an organization’s cloud strategy. Considerations such as compliance, realizing existing on-premises investments and, of course, security — which is at the top of many organizations’ minds at the moment — come into play. The impact on security intelligence is particularly complex for two major reasons.
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First, as organizations move parts of their infrastructure and applications to the cloud, they absolutely need to secure them as they would if they were still on-premises. Many of the same security concerns and compliance mandates still exist. For example: who is using the applications and services? Is the use suspicious? Is any data being exfiltrated? From where are the services being accessed? Have any of your compromised hosts or on-premises accounts accessed these services? If so, what did they do?
Second, organizations are more and more seeking to simplify their operations and even treat network security costs as a series of monthly operating expenses rather than any capital investments. To meet this demand, IBM Security Intelligence on Cloud provides a managed environment for the IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform. The solution offers an alternative to traditional on-premise deployments using cloud technology to collect, analyze and store an organization’s log source data using a secure data gateway connection. What this delivers is rapid time-to-value for deploying and configuring a leadership security intelligence capability, and 24×7 infrastructure maintenance services to upgrade all software to the latest available releases, apply all fix packs and critical patches, and respond to client change requests. IBM Security Intelligence on Cloud is a flexible solution delivered as a true Software as a Service (SaaS) offering and can even improve visibility into cloud-based applications.
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