IBM/ISS

IBM - Providing Preemptive Protection for Your Network

IBM Managed IDS and IPS Services

Why IBM Internet Security Systems?
A preemptive approach to security requires marketplace-leading research, an expert eye for attack trends and techniques, and a streamlined and affordable platform for delivering advanced security solutions that are knowledge-based. IBM Internet Security Systems (IBM/ISS) commands the extensive knowledge, innovative research methods and complex technologies required to achieve preemptive security.

Helping to protect your business inside and out*
Internet security is now a critical factor in IT performance, affecting everything from business continuity to cost management. Because catastrophic Internet attacks can disrupt your business operations, top-flight security expertise is more valuable and essential than ever before.

IBM Managed IDS & IPS Services (MIDS/IPS) solutions are designed to provide comprehensive protection for networks and servers against threats and unauthorized intrusions from both internal and external sources. These services can improve your security posture while reducing costs for such protection. IBM Intrusion Prevention solutions deliver 24x7 expertly monitored and managed intrusion detection and prevention systems.

Highlights

• Provides comprehensive protection for networks and servers against threats and unauthorized intrusions from internal and external sources.
• Leverages state-of-the-art, industry-certified facilities to provide 24x7 protection for mission-critical systems, electrical, data processing and communication links.
• Allows for real-time, automated analysis and correlation of events, supporting accurate and proactive identification of malicious behavior.
• Facilitates corrective action and proactive threat modeling for specific environments.

Helping to reduce costs and business risk by managing IT security threats

Benefits

• Helps ensure business continuity and provides customization to fit specific business requirements with flexible service levels.
• Enables you to optimize your existing security investments by providing multivendor support.
• Helps to not only reduce risk but also improve industry-specific regulatory compliance by providing real-time views into your security posture.
• Integrates the renowned IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® security intelligence team to deliver preemptive protection.
• Provides rapid, cost-effective resolution of security issues to help safeguard the security of your company.
• Mitigates attacks from both known and emerging threats to reduce the impact on your business and improve your security posture.
• Helps save time and money by reducing staffing requirements, training and maintenance, and infrastructure costs for a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Comprises a significant part of the IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) protection on demand services platform.

Features

• 24x7 expert monitoring, best-practice intrusion detection/intrusion prevention device management, incident response, and support for both networks and servers.
• Service provided through state-of-the-art, certified and secure-redundant security operations centers (SOCs).
• Integrated vulnerability intelligence, which improves attack identification and reduces false positives.
• Customized configuration and tuning, performance and fault management of intrusion detection/intrusion prevention sensors.
• Customized prevention baselines when implementing intrusion prevention blocking policies.
• Real-time response and escalation of unauthorized activities and security events.
• IBM Virtual Patch technology, which provides identification and automated patching of vulnerable systems.
• Real-time correlation of vulnerability and attack data, helping to prevent the spread of attacks.
• Around-the-clock access to professionally trained and certified security experts.
• Accelerated aggregation, advanced correlation and event prioritization from a broad range of heterogeneous security devices.
• Comprehensive executive, technical and compliance reporting through the IBM Virtual-Security Operations Center (Virtual-SOC) portal.
• Security-rich, real-time access for all client/SOC communications, troubleticket entry, event handling, incident response, data presentation, report generation and trend analysis for all devices under management via the Virtual-SOC portal.

JDL is an IBM/ISS business partner

Adapted from IBM IPS product brochures and IBM web site data.