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Cloud gets personal

Editorial Type:     Date: 01-2015    Views: 3649      













IBM has patented the design for a data privacy engine that can help businesses protect personal data as it is shared between countries, including across private clouds.

Global businesses are increasingly exchanging personal information, such as employee and customer details, across borders and around the world. As this continues, the ability to manage data flows between cloud data centres, while remaining in accordance with organisational and local laws, becomes even more imperative. Increasingly, governments are establishing a raft of rules that seek to regulate how data may be transmitted from one country to another.

IBM's new patented Data Privacy Engine invention - U.S. Patent #8,695,101 - lets businesses aggregate international requirements for data transfers about individual projects. As a result, individuals can quickly see what restrictions have been put in place for different types of protected information when transferring it between two countries, including data stored in a private cloud. The engine also flags any cross-border privacy issues and provides recommendations on how to resolve each, based on the information the business has input into the engine.

In the event that underlying privacy requirements change, the engine can be updated to reflect these rules. Subsequently, teams are notified that transfers, which previously were approved, may no longer be in compliance, so they can prevent potential violations.

BURDENSOME TO BUSINESSES
This new privacy engine improves upon manual privacy techniques, which are often executed on an ad hoc basis, requiring additional dedicated support. This model is not only expensive and time consuming, but it is also burdensome as businesses struggle to stay current with the growing number of regulations that may vary from country to country.

"Global businesses today face significant challenges in protecting personal data and keeping up with regulations in an environment where information is moving at record speeds across borders," says Christina Peters, chief privacy officer, IBM.

"Our new invention provides a privacy technique that helps businesses navigate an increasingly complex compliance landscape of regulations to help companies avoid unknowingly sharing data that could put their business at risk." For example, a company working on a project that requires transferring employee data via the cloud to its Italy branch could use IBM's patented data privacy engine to identify potential violations. The company's compliance team could then be provided with all relevant details, so the business can make sure it adheres with the latest regulations and policies.

This patent furthers IBM's commitment to helping businesses ensure that their most vital data and assets remain secure, it states. Earlier this year, the company introduced the IBM Threat Protection System and Critical Data Protection Program to help organisations protect their critical data in an environment where advanced persistent threats, zero day attacks, breaches and the accompanying financial impact on an organisation continue to rise.

IBM's new Threat Protection System leverages security intelligence and behavioural analytics to go beyond traditional signature-based defenses and firewalls to disrupt attacks across the entire attack chain - from break-in to exfiltrate.

The system includes an end-to-end architecture of analytic and forensics software that helps organisations continuously prevent, detect and respond to ongoing and sophisticated cyber attacks, and in some cases, eliminate the threat before the damage has occurred.

Among the highlights are:

• For prevention, a new Trusteer Apex solution for endpoint malware blocking, significant enhancements to the IBM Network Protection appliance for quarantining against attacks and new integrations with key partners' network sandbox capabilities
• For detection, IBM is enhancing its QRadar Security Intelligence platform with new capabilities - allowing organisations to detect attacks at new scale and actively block exploits with a click
• For response, IBM is introducing IBM Security QRadar Incident Forensics. IBM is also continuing to expand its emergency response services globally.



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