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Data security and protection solutions

Protect enterprise data across its lifecycle and simplify compliance requirements                      

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Protect critical data

Data is the lifeblood of every organization. As your organization’s data footprint expands across various cloud environments, providers, SaaS applications and endpoints, your risk of a data breach also increases. Hackers and cybercriminals are seeking to exploit security vulnerabilities to access sensitive data that is spread across multiple cloud data centers and data stores. 

Data security and compliance are two sides of the same coin. Complex compliance regulations, such as DORA, GDPR, CCPA, SOX, PCI, HIPAA and others, all have the same purpose: preventing unauthorized access to customers’ and users’ sensitive information.
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Strengthening information security 

Comprehensive data security solutions, whether implemented on premises or in a hybrid cloud, help you gain greater visibility and insights to investigate and remediate cyberthreats. These solutions can enforce security policies and access controls in near real time and help you meet regulatory compliance requirements, improving your data security posture.
Real-time vulnerability detection

Identify data, control access and monitor threats so security teams can protect sensitive assets before cyberattacks, security breaches or malware and ransomware attacks hit.

 
Prevent data breaches

Enable zero trust with secure, automated data copies that can tackle cybersecurity gaps in hybrid environments.
Simplify regulatory compliance

Tackle privacy mandates with automation, analytics and monitoring to simplify reporting and reduce the burden.
Securing AI

Bring together security and governance to manage AI asset security and improve data loss prevention.

Related products

With data breaches costing global organizations financial losses in the millions on average, it's critical to understand all your repositories for structured and unstructured data. You also need to know where they reside, who can access them, what needs to be encrypted, what is the flow of this data and what potential misconfigurations exist. Our data security products help you gain visibility into security vulnerabilities to improve your data security posture and reduce security incidents.
Protect data across the lifecycle
Manage the data security lifecycle, from discovery to remediation, and emerge security threats.
Identity and access management (IAM)
Modernize IAM while leveraging existing security tools for seamless, vendor-independent identity fabric.
AI-driven unified endpoint management (UEM)
Automate and simplify endpoint management across mobile devices and laptops from a single console.
Storage cyber resiliency
Ensure data resiliency with grid architecture designed for quick recovery and minimal impact after cyberattacks.
Discover shadow AI
Uncover security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations with automated tools that provide risk metrics to stay ahead of data governance threats.
Resilience posture
Strengthen your IT environment by providing intelligent, proactive solutions to ensure continuous uptime and optimal performance.
Encryption and cryptography
Address data security measures and privacy regulations, and control encryption keys for cloud-based data.

Related services

As the only global consultancy within a major technology leader, our deep expertise results in a unique combination of human talent and digital labor. This approach drives greater growth, cost savings and productivity for clients and partners. Across our data security services, we prioritize the right technology with the right domain expertise to drive transformation for clients at speed and scale.
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Data and AI security services

Discover and classify data, deploy and manage data protection and encryption with our fully integrated secure DevOps and thread modeling services.
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Resources

    

In-depth ebooks and guides

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AI for Business: Maximize AI ROI through smarter governance
Discover the key benefits gained with automated AI governance for any AI—apps, models or agents. Learn how to maximize the return on investment (ROI) for all your AI initiatives with the right set of frameworks and tools.
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Data governance for data leaders
This ebook analyzes several topics related to data governance and privacy such as scalability, establishing and implementing organization-wide standards and data lineage and traceability.
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How to choose the right AI foundation model
Follow a simple 5-step performance framework and find out how to make smarter, safer AI model choices.
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AI that people trust is AI that people use
Read this guide to better understand why AI is making security and governance matter more than ever and what are the barriers to protecting and building trust for data and AI.

Trends shaping AI, governance and security

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Prioritize your AI governance
See why Forrester recognized IBM as a Leader for its watsonx.governance solution—helping enterprises manage AI risk, compliance and trust at scale.
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Build trust into every AI decision
Gartner Market Guide for AI TRiSM outlines emerging solutions for AI trust, risk and security management to help organizations govern AI systems and manage associated risks.
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Unified AI Governance
Enterprises looking to scale AI initiatives responsibly will require a strong AI governance platform. Read the full analysis and discover how IBM watsonx.governance can support your Al strategy.
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Threat Intelligence Index 2026
Learn how to safeguard your people and data from cyberattacks. Get deeper insight into attackers’ tactics and recommendations to proactively protect your organization.

Learn directly from industry experts

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Achieve continuous compliance in a hybrid data world
Join us for this critical session as we explore IBM Guardium Data Protection’s recent launches and updates designed to help organizations move from reactive compliance to always-on readiness.
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Critical Elements of AI Trust
As organizations race to embrace AI for competitive advantage, they often overlook the core element of trustworthy AI. The future of AI depends on how well we secure it today.
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Securing AI Agents—Building Trust in the Era of Autonomous Systems
Listen to IBM experts as we unpack real-world attack vectors, emerging frameworks and actionable defense strategies for securing AI agents in enterprise environments.
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Agent Ops and Responsible AI
Join us live for an IBM Technology Summit focusing on Agent Ops and Responsible AI to learn IBM’s perspective on operating agentic AI responsibly at scale.

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Take the next step

A strong data security strategy gives your enterprise the confidence to thrive in today's digital economy. Learn how our different types of data security solutions can help your enterprise protect its most valuable asset.