IBM Corp. today announced the launch of Guardium Data Security Center, a new platform that has been designed to help organizations address the growing data security risks associated with hybrid cloud environments, artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

IBM Guardium Data Security Center offers users a common view of an organization’s data assets to allow security teams to integrate workflows and address data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, data and AI security posture management, and cryptography and key management together in a single dashboard. The new service includes generative AI capabilities to help generate risk summaries and boost security professionals’ productivity.

The center features Guardium AI Security, software that helps protect organizations’ AI deployments from security vulnerabilities and data governance policy violations. It does so to address a growth issue with generative AI adoption: the risk of “shadow AI” and the presence of unsanctioned models. Shadow AI is the use of unsanctioned or unauthorized AI models and tools without formal oversight or governance, posing security and compliance risks.

Guardium AI Security helps manage security risks and data governance for sensitive AI models by providing a unified view of data assets. The service discovers AI deployments, mitigates vulnerabilities, ensures compliance and integrates with platforms like IBM watsonx.

The security center also features Guardium Quantum Safe. The software helps clients protect encrypted data from the potential risk of future cyberattacks driven by quantum computers. Guardium Quantum Safe builds upon expertise from IBM Research — including IBM’s post-quantum cryptography algorithms — and IBM Consulting.

Guardium Quantum Safe allows organizations to gain visibility and manage their cryptographic security posture by addressing vulnerabilities and guiding remediation efforts. Through the consolidation of cryptographic algorithms, detected vulnerabilities and network usages into a single dashboard, security analysts can efficiently monitor policy violations and track progress.

Quantum Safe also provides customizable metadata and flexible reporting features, ensuring that critical vulnerabilities can be prioritized for remediation. This helps organizations enforce compliance with external, internal and government regulations without the need to manually gather information from disparate systems and tools.

The new service integrates with IBM’s broader Quantum Safe solutions from Consulting and Research, utilizing technology developed by IBM Research. Several post-quantum cryptography algorithms from IBM Research were recently standardized by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, a key step in protecting encrypted data from future quantum-computer-driven cyberattacks.

“Generative AI and quantum computing provide immense opportunities, but they also bring new risks,” said Akiba Saeedi, vice president of security product management at IBM. “During this transformative time, organizations need to improve their crypto-agility and carefully monitor their AI models, training data and usage.”

In addition to the launch of Guardium Data Security Center, IBM also today announced new decentralized identity features for its Verify portfolio.

IBM Verify Digital Credentials allows users to securely store and manage digitized versions of physical credentials such as driver’s licenses, insurance cards and employee badges. The enhancement is said by IBM to provide standardized storage, secure sharing and comprehensive privacy controls, further strengthening IBM’s existing identity access management solution across hybrid cloud environments.

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