"I like your product but do you integrate with an XYZ vendor?", is something I hear a lot when speaking with security professionals.

What's the use of a cyber security product if it doesn't talk to other market players? Not much. Interoperability streamlines seamless sharing of information and allows organizations to create a holistic cybersecurity approach that adapts to their unique security architecture.

The growing number of disparate tools and volume of data they produce overwhelm security operations center (SOC) managers. Not only does it make it harder for security analysts to respond to threats well, but it also affects the team’s morale.

Research from the Information Systems Security Association found that 83% of 280 security professionals surveyed want to see vendors build open standards into their products to enable interoperability. Shouldering internal research and development (R&D) loads through strategic tech partnerships is nothing new but not every security vendor recognizes the importance of interoperability. 

How IBM Security makes it happen

At IBM Security®, we believe that through purpose-built integrations and an open ecosystem, we can unlock power, flexibility and control in your environment.​ Our integrations is a network of partnerships that work with your current solutions to extend visibility and threat detection to new cloud data sources. To help our customers effectively manage threats, our team is focused on building and delivering IBM Security QRadar SIEM built-in integrations that is driven by addressing real-life security use cases. And we continue to invest in the breadth and quality of hundreds of our and partner-built integrations, available on our App Exchange, to help our customers keep their operations secure.

Thanks to the continuously growing network of our technology partnerships, ​the coverage of IBM Security QRadar SIEM use cases expands QRadar SIEM’s usefulness for customers who use varied and diverse tools. 

IBM Security offers integrations for at least a dozen of different categories, including cloud and endpoint security, identity and access management, network security, and many others. 

Integration: It All Works Together

In many industries, superior technology integration is key to productivity and speed. It transforms the way a business can select and refine a new product, process or service. If a business chooses technologies that don’t work well together, it can end up with a product that doesn’t have the proper market fit. Effective technology integration begins in the early R&D project phases and informs a roadmap for design, engineering and production.

No single tool or security concept impacts the security industry as much as collaboration. Those organizations that can develop and maintain technology ecosystems along with digital agility will adapt to change quickly. That way, they will find the path to success for themselves and their customers alike.

There is a variety of crucial security use cases our teams help address with our technology integrations. So we invite you to explore them all at IBM Security Devise Support Module (DSM) Guide.

IBM Security also offers a number of applications for Microsoft on IBM App Exchange, such as IBM Security QRadar custom properties for Office 365, or Microsoft Azure Defender for IBM Security SOAR. 

And if you didn't find a certain functionality among that list, please share your feedback by submitting a new feature request via IBM Security Ideas Portal. 

We are dedicated to the success of our clients by combining the best of our products and services. We create and jointly go to market with innovative solutions where we serve our clients better as a team than when we operate alone. Because security is a team sport.