IBM Launches Security Suite to Defend Against AI, Quantum Threats

IBM has introduced Guardium Data Security Center, a suite of tools designed to address the rising security challenges posed by AI and quantum computing.

The new platform consolidates data and cryptography management into a unified dashboard, enabling organizations to enhance their data protection, ensure governance and manage emerging security risks more effectively.

According to IBM, it provides a centralized view of an organization's data assets, integrating security workflows such as data monitoring, governance, detection and cryptographic management into a single platform.

This aims to simplify the complex task of managing security across a growing array of technologies, including AI deployments and quantum-safe cryptography.

The platform features generative AI capabilities that enable it to generate risk summaries and assist security professionals in identifying vulnerabilities, helping boost overall productivity.

Addressing AI Security Risks

The platform features IBM Guardium AI Security, a tool designed to protect organizations from vulnerabilities within their AI deployments. With generative AI rapidly gaining traction, the risk of "shadow AI" — unsanctioned models that evade governance policies — is increasing.

The IBM Guardium AI Security tool aims to help detect these shadow AI models, ensuring they are brought under proper governance protocols. This software can integrate with IBM’s watsonx platform and other generative AI SaaS providers, enabling organizations to manage AI models and training data securely.

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Preparing for Quantum Computing Threats

As quantum computing technology advances, it presents new cybersecurity challenges to encrypted data. IBM Guardium Quantum Safe, another feature of the suite, builds on IBM's research into post-quantum cryptography and offers solutions to safeguard encrypted data against future quantum-powered cyberattacks.

IBM Guardium Quantum Safe dashboard. Credit: IBM

IBM Guardium Quantum Safe helps organizations gain visibility and manage enterprise cryptographic security policy to address vulnerabilities and guide remediation.

It enables organizations to enforce policies based on external, internal and government regulations by pulling crypto algorithms used in code, vulnerabilities detected in code and network usages into a single dashboard. It then generates customizable metadata and flexible reporting so that critical vulnerabilities can be prioritized for remediation.

“Generative AI and quantum computing provide immense opportunities, but they also bring new risks,” said IBM vice president of security product management Akiba Saeedi.

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“During this transformative time, organizations need to improve their crypto-agility and carefully monitor their AI models, training data and usage.”