IBM security ops center opens in B’lore

The centre is designed to provide clients from around the world with round-the-clock protection and service.

IBM on Friday announced the official opening of a new global security operations centre in Bangalore. The centre is designed to provide clients from around the world with round-the-clock protection and service.

The facility is constantly staffed with managed security services professionals and members of the X-Force security research and development team to provide real-time analysis and early warning notification of security events to more than 4,000 managed security services clients worldwide.

IBM operates eight other global security operations centers in Atlanta,Georgia; Detroit,Michigan; Boulder,Colorado,Toronto,Canada; Brussels,Belgium; Tokyo,Japan; Brisbane,Australia; and Hortolandia,Brazil,all servicing clients from points across the globe.

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This Bangalore center will leverage the IBM X-Force Protection System back end managed security services infrastructure to assist analysts with the aggregation,correlation,analysis and prioritization of security logs and events.

As the global threat landscape is constantly changing,clients realize that a new Internet attack can create a life-or-death business situation, said Neeraj Sharma,Director – Integrated Technology Services,IBM India/South Asia. In addition,ongoing management of security threats from attacks or for compliance can be a costly proposition in todays economy. Since 2006,IBM has estimated the average cost savings by comparing the costs of a client managing their security in-house versus the costs of teaming with IBM for Managed Security Services (MSS) using the MSS Total Cost of Ownership calculator.