Forward-leading organizations are embracing security advisory services on their journey to the cloud. They are refactoring apps to become more modular and containerized. Organizations are shifting to software as a service (SaaS) to move fast and scale for services and are embracing AWS Cloud or hybrid cloud to match the right workload to the right cloud environment in an open way.

Organizations understand that the success of this change depends on being secure and compliant. While cloud providers offer benefits to your organization such as reducing operational overhead, security readiness must be considered:

• Customer shared responsibility of managing security and compliance
• Architectural complexities to enable proper security
• Misconfiguration risk due to teams having varying levels of security and cloud skills
• Alert fatigue with mounting sets of log data

IBM Security Services help manage your cloud security strategy, policies, and controls across AWS Cloud, or hybrid cloud environments. These services bring together cloud-native and third-party technologies along with IBM expertise to help you create a unified security approach across your cloud ecosystems. Our security experts provide advisory services guidance to define the right controls, policies and architecture to support your complex business needs and use cases.

Our services can be tailored to an organization’s unique business goals, industry, compliance and security requirements. Depending upon your requirements, duration of an engagement can range from several weeks to 2-3 months.

Rapid Cloud Security Assessment: Analyze current security posture and provide customized recommendations to address challenges around vulnerability and risk related to your cloud estate.

Our Rapid Cloud Security Assessment brings visibility into security misconfigurations, traffic analysis and compliance against security and data privacy frameworks (such as NIST, ISO, CCPA, HIPAA, and PCI) across your AWS environment. Together with your teams, IBM consultants walk through the security findings in an interactive, structured session which provides key recommendations to closing those gaps in a security assessment report.

This assessment is performed within a 2-week period and provides a comprehensive analysis of:

• Your existing cloud architecture, account structure including subscriptions and resource tagging for security implementation
• Review of your monitoring and log management, data encryption, network and application security, identity and access management controls and security configuration with recommendations.
• Compliance checks for PCI DSS, HIPAA, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF/800-53, etc.

The fee for IBM’s standard Rapid Cloud Security Assessment: $30,000.

Cloud Security Assessment and Strategy: Deep-dive Cloud Security Assessment and Strategy helps your organization address the secure adoption and secure migration challenges you encounter in your cloud journey.

IBM Security Services provides advisory on accelerated deployment/migration options based on zero trust principles in a co-creation approach, facilitated via unique IBM Garage driven methodology to address the following challenges:

• Take a risk-based view: Evaluate what kinds of workload and data you can move to the cloud and transformation needed. A risk-based assessment provides visibility and a high-level roadmap for phasing your cloud adoption.
• Understand the shared responsibility model: Review the cloud provider’s terms of service and your existing security policies and requirements, including regulatory compliance. Identify if responsibilities have shifted from you to the provider, or if there are gaps in your existing policies or responsibilities matrix.
• Establish a collaborative culture and organization: Drive a collaborative culture between application, IT and operations and security teams where application teams understand the importance of security and compliance in their role.
• Define, review or modify controls and processes: Make certain that the right controls and processes are in place to adopt a cloud native approach from the initial deployment. Security and security teams should be included in design and architecture reviews.
• Practice continuous monitoring for security and compliance: Security controls are not one-time enforcement actions. Instill the practice in the organization, process and culture, and use technologies and tools.
• Drive proactive planning for cybersecurity events: Prepare for an orchestrated response to incidents with well-defined workflows and retaining incident response professionals.

IBM Security is a leader in comprehensive AWS Level 1 MSSP services. IBM’s AWS Level 1 MSSP services cover a broad spectrum of capabilities. Learn more with the link in Additional Resources section of this tile.

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