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IBM mainframe ushers in new era of data protection

By Allyson Towle
Johannesburg, 26 Jul 2017

IBM Z - In the digital economy, trust is everything

IBM in partnership with ITWeb presents IBM Z in Fourways, Johannesburg, on 17 August. You are invited to spend the morning with experts to discuss this new product offering. Click here to register for this complimentary event.

IBM Z's new data encryption capabilities are designed to address the global epidemic of data breaches, a major factor in the $8 trillion cyber crime impact on the global economy by 2022. Of the more than nine billion data records lost or stolen since 2013, only 4% were encrypted, making the majority of such data vulnerable to organised cyber crime rings, state actors and employees misusing access to sensitive information.

IBM Z will be launched in Johannesburg, South Africa at an exclusive event at the Langhams Lifestyle Centre, Fourways, on 17 August.

In the most significant re-positioning of mainframe technology in more than a decade, when the platform embraced Linux and open source software, IBM Z now dramatically expands the protective cryptographic umbrella of the encryption technology and key protection. The system's advanced cryptographic capability now extends across any data, network, external device or entire applications - such as the IBM Cloud Blockchain service - with no application changes and no impact on business service level agreements.

"The vast majority of stolen or leaked data today is in the open and easy to use because encryption has been very difficult and expensive to do at scale," said Ross Mauri, General Manager, IBM Z. "We have created a data protection engine for the cloud era to have a significant and immediate impact on global data security."

Encryption is often largely absent in corporate and cloud data centres because current solutions for data encryption in x86 environments can dramatically degrade performance (and thus user experience), and can be too complex and expensive to manage. As a result, only about 2% of corporate data is encrypted today, while more than 80% of mobile device data is encrypted.

IBM Z pervasive encryption reflects a call to action on data protection articulated by chief information security officers and data security experts worldwide. As a result IBM Z brings significant advances in cryptography technology, building on an encryption platform that safeguards banking, healthcare, government and retail systems.

Find out more about how IBM Z pervasive encryption delivers breakthroughs including: pervasive encryption of data oughs includin; tamper-responding encryption keys; and encrypted APIs at the IBM Z Launch. For more information about how to register, click here.

IBM Z, deeply integrated with IBM security software, automates and dramatically streamlines security and compliance processes. For example, auditors are expected to manually inspect and validate the security of databases, applications and systems.

Organisations can now immediately demonstrate that data within of scope of compliance is protected and the keys are secure. This can significantly reduce the mounting complexity and cost of compliance for auditors. The system also provides an audit trail showing if and when permissioned insiders access data.

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