Breathing easier about vulnerable information Protecting the privacy of information has become increasingly difficult – and more critical – with each passing day. The rapid expansion of the Internet and a growing body of government and industry regulations have placed massive amounts of valuable, often vulnerable information in an environment fraught with risks.
The Security and Privacy interest area uses IBM expertise and first-of-a-kind hardware and software developed through years of research to help improve security/privacy architecture, assist companies in selecting among competing technologies, prevent and detect intrusion, secure digital content, and set the direction for the future of security and privacy in the business environment.
For almost any company competing in the rapidly expanding networked world, security and privacy is about protecting corporate, client and partner assets.
- For a financial services company, this may mean identifying and closing security gaps in its new wireless network to foil sophisticated hackers.
- For a media company, this may mean applying new encryption technology to help protect valuable intellectual property.
- For a global company with industry secrets, this may mean applying the latest biometric voice and fingerprint identification to strictly control access to secure intranet sites.
Micropractices Business and research specialists in the Security and Privacy interest area help companies in all industries improve their current security and prepare for an uncertain future.
- Biometrics offers IBM tools and expertise, including biometric system design and architecture, and fingerprint and voice authentication/identification, to help secure corporate assets.
- Digital rights management provides clients with comprehensive solutions for digital content distribution and digital rights management. Tools and expertise from IBM, including cryptography, trust management and tamper resistance, can help provide added protection for digital content.
- Hippocratic database technology offers a database-agnostic disclosure control and compliance auditing middleware solution that allows fine-grained data access control with privacy protection with minimal or no changes to existing systems.
- Identity management offers IBM tools and expertise to help perform security assessments to gather, manage and protect sensitive customer data. This includes technology and software needed to help companies develop solutions that preserve privacy without impeding information flow.
- Intrusion detection techniques allow companies to operate with confidence in spite of the numerous attacks that threaten computer systems. IBM tools and expertise can help detect, analyze and prevent hacker attacks.
- Privacy protection includes enterprise privacy architecture, privacy services and privacy authorization languages to help address privacy issues in a fast and efficient manner.
- Secure and efficient cryptographic implementations apply IBM expertise and tools in the design of compact, high-performance solutions that are resistant to tampering and side-channel attack.
- Secure systems specialty helps companies improve their security/privacy architecture, assists companies in selecting among competing technologies, prevents and detects intrusion, and sets the direction for the future of security in the business environment.
The specialties listed do not represent a comprehensive list of IBM Research capabilities. Business leaders with ideas or custom solutions in mind, please contact ODIS today.
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More on the team | Podcast: IBM and the future of crime Charles Palmer, head of security and privacy for IBM Research, and Bob Bragdon, publisher of CSO Magazine, discuss the evolution of cybercrime, and how best to fight it. |
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