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Trend Micro & IBM Team Up To Boost Mainframe Security
Trend Micro Deep Security adds security for mainframe enterprise integration
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Trend Micro Deep Security adds security for mainframe enterprise integration.
Trend Micro has maintained a long-standing collaboration with IBM, spanning over twenty-five years. Over that period, technology trends have come and gone. The IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE and Trend Micro Deep Security continue as well-established products based on forward-moving technologies.
IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE are the transaction engine of many high-stakes industries—from global banking and financial markets to healthcare, government, and telecommunications – powering 70% of the world’s transactions. Trend Micro will be partnering with IBM to serve this critical market and enable Deep Security on IBM platform of choice to further our collaboration for customer value.
Increasingly, large enterprises need powerful yet streamlined security. Automation is key to managing the volume of threats across application workflows from mainframe to cloud environments. Trend Micro on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE will enable coverage of workflows and AI pipelines while reducing operational complexity as customers accelerate business-critical applications.
The Opportunity of Securing IBM’s trusted platforms in a hybrid AI world
Mainframes power some of the world’s most demanding IT environments, processing thousands of transactions per seconds, driving the performance of business.
IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE are known for their high processing power, AI accelerators, scalability, and reliability, making them excellent platforms for enabling efficiencies in running Linux and container-based AI workloads. Trend Micro’s support of OpenShift containers adds additional value.
At the same time, the regulatory landscape is changing, turning up the pressure on IT security leaders. For financial services firms operating in the EU, there’s the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) to consider which is mandating strict new rules around cyber-risk management, incident reporting, third-party risk management and resilience testing. In addition, there is PCI -Payment Card Industry Security Standards- for safeguarding cardholder data and credit card transactions. It is critical to protect workflows interacting with this data.
Teaming up for success
IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE feature multi-layered security for real-time fraud detection and pervasive, quantum-safe encryption. Trend Micro and IBM will be partnering to complement this multi-layer stack with anti-malware protection to serve large organisations globally as they continue to build out their secure applications and workflows. Our joint customers require runtime security for physical, virtual, cloud, and container workloads. Because the Trend solution works seamlessly across all these environments, it simplifies security—reducing visibility gaps and making policy enforcement more consistent and automatic.
Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™, a globally sourced and continuously updated threat intelligence feed, distils the expertise from over 4,000 engineers worldwide. This contributes to the effectiveness of Deep Security’s anti-malware, integrity monitoring, firewall, intrusion prevention, web reputation, app control, and log inspection capabilities. Interpretation and automation powered by AI assistance enables proactive, pre-emptive mitigation and compliance control. The end-to-end process can be customised and delivered as a managed service to minimise the administrative burden.
"We are excited and honoured to stand with IBM to augment cybersecurity for critical mainframe customers worldwide” says Kevin Simzer, Chief Operation Officer of Trend Micro.
“At IBM, we recognise the critical need for a unified cybersecurity approach in today's complex threat landscape. We help empower businesses to break down their security silos and build up their defences with a single, robust cybersecurity platform. IBM shares a commitment with Trend Micro to providing our clients with one of the most advanced and integrated security solutions, fostering a resilient and secure digital environment on the IBM Z platform” says Meredith Stowell, Vice President, Ecosystem, IBM Z and LinuxONE.
How our joint customers will benefit
IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE play a vital role in hybrid IT infrastructure, driving today’s AI-powered business growth. As hybrid environments and AI continue to evolve and connect more assets, users, and data, they also expand the attack surface. This makes end-to-end security risk insights essential
IBM and Trend Micro are teaming to ultimately provide customers with:
- Simplified compliance through automated cheques that help customers meet key regulatory requirements throughout the app workflow process and across all assets and users
- AI-supported features and AI optimised correlation for complete context
- Continuous threat intelligence to inform risks
- Protection of high-value workloads from ransomware, supply chain attacks and other sophisticated threats
- Streamlined operations with future attack path predictions, proactive guided mitigation to get ahead of threats, reduced risk posture, and efficiencies through automation