Protect and secure data in the cloud and virtual environment

New technologies and ways of working are challenging traditional computing models. Virtualization and Cloud Computing are new consumption and delivery models that organizations are using to:

• Reduce total cost of ownership, with fewer servers and increased utilization of server resources
• Promote faster deployment of server images compared to physical server hardware
• Achieve greater return on investment
• Provide standardization and optimization of IT infrastructure to allow for scalability and reliability
• Provide business and IT flexibility and agility

Safeguarding information is required by numerous legal and corporate mandates. Developing a holistic data protection approach while at the same time managing resource costs, requires organizations to invest in solutions which span physical, virtual and cloud environments.

To ensure data is protected in virtualized and cloud environments organizations need to understand what data is going into these environments, how access to this data can be monitored, what types of vulnerabilities exist and how to demonstrate compliance. Protections should be build into virtual and cloud environments from the start.

IBM InfoSphere Guardium can help support your cloud and virtualization strategy with:

• Virtualized database activity monitoring, database vulnerability assessments, data redaction and data encryption
• Automatic discovery and classification of data the cloud
• Static and dynamic data masking to ensure a least privileged access model to cloud resources
• Audit and compliance reports customized for different regulations to demonstrate compliance in the cloud

InfoSphere Guardium provides single comprehensive solution for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures through centralized, automated security controls across heterogeneous environments. InfoSphere Guardium helps streamline compliance, improve productivity, manage data access and manage database vulnerabilities.

• To learn more about cloud computing, read Cloud Computing on a Smarter Planet (PDF, 655KB)