Monitoring and managing security risk and compliance remains a critical focus for organizations no matter the industry. Coverage is needed across their full environment and can include any mixture of public clouds, private cloud, or hybrid cloud. Protection against risk must also extend to the full life cycle of cloud-native applications, from development to production. Managing such a broad range of risk and compliance can be complex. Technology tools exist to help organizations ease that burden. However, with the array of proprietary, cloud native tools that come from each of the cloud vendors combined with other point solutions out in the market, organizations can find themselves with tool sprawl and increased spend on multiple solutions with some level of overlapping capabilities. Yet even with this level of investment, they can still lack clear risk and compliance visibility across their entire environment because of a collection of unintegrated tools.
The IBM Security and Compliance Center (IBM SCC) suite, an integrated Cloud Native Application Protection Platform, can help address these challenges. The IBM SCC suite was recognized in the recent KuppingerCole Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) Leadership Compass as an overall leader in the CNAPP market. A CNAPP solution brings together what have historically been disparate security and protection capabilities into a single platform that focuses on identifying and prioritizing noncompliance and associated risk of cloud-native applications and their related infrastructure.
KuppingerCole, founded in 2004, is an international and independent analyst organization headquartered in Germany and specializing in offering neutral advice, expertise, thought leadership, and practical relevance in identities and access management, their governance, and risk management to facilitate innovation- and corporate-value oriented, secure, privacy-maintaining information management in businesses. KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass Reports grow every year in stature. Their recent report focuses on an examination of the trends influencing the CNAPP market segment and includes an evaluation of the vendors in that market.
The KuppingerCole report recognizes IBM as a leader across each category evaluated in the CNAPP market, including product, innovation, and market and goes on to say that “organizations in regulated industries looking for a CNAPP solution that covers a wide range of environments and needs should consider IBM Security and Compliance Center.” Due to the range of capabilities and visibility into security risk and compliance SCC provides, its use spans multiple teams across an organization including developers, security analysts, cloud engineers, and operations teams. According to the KuppingerCole report, “this approach not only improves coverage and efficiency but establishes a central cross-team collaboration place for all security and compliance monitoring and management across hybrid multi-cloud environments.”
As a holistic CNAPP solution, IBM Security and Compliance Center brings the management, monitoring, and overall visibility of an organization’s security and compliance posture across their environment into one integrated platform and one cohesive view. IBM SCC’s extensive capabilities include hybrid, multicloud compliance and security posture management (CSPM), vulnerability management and threat detection (CWPP), and cloud identity and entitlement management (CIEM) in an integrated, unified solution with no need for additional tools.
With an extensive library of ready-to-use controls supporting security and regulatory compliance obligations for hybrid multicloud and AI and Generative AI workloads, clients obtain a cohesive view of potential risks across their infrastructure, inclusive of containers, Kubernetes, and virtual and physical hosts that can span multiple cloud platforms. Vulnerability scanning prioritizes identified threats and vulnerabilities based upon in-use resources, reducing developers’ time to triage so the most critical ones can be addressed first. Security risks and compliance issues can be caught and corrected before workloads move into production with a policy-as-code approach to CI/CD pipelines. In addition, IBM SCC’s open architecture supports third-party integrations to allow risk assessment and management of third- and fourth-party risk posture via GRC solutions.
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Learn more about the industry view of IBM Security and Compliance Center by downloading a complimentary copy of the KuppingerCole Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) Leadership Compass here.