Trusteer Acquisition Helps IBM Beef Up Mobile Cloud Security

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Doug Bonderud.

IBM recently closed a deal to purchase IT security firm Trusteer, which specializes in fraud detection and advanced security monitoring. The company also has a powerful software-as-a-service (SaaS) and mobile security platform, which Big Blue hopes to integrate in its own complement of SaaS programming. Simply put, there is a need for defensible, mobile cloud architecture, especially among midsize companies taking their first steps skyward.

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Trust is everything. As Caleb Barlow, IBM’s director of mobile security, noted in a recent eWeek article, "[A] big portion of the value of that brand is now associated with trust. If you can trust that brand, if you can trust them with your data, it’s going to make a big difference in who you choose to do business with." To achieve this trust, midsize admins need to show executives — and therefore customers — that their personal data is secure in the cloud. Trusteer, for its part, provides account takeover protection, compromised device detection and fingerprinting services. IBM also has plans to create a cybersecurity lab in Israel; the 200-employee facility will focus on mobile security, threat protection, malware and financial crime…

Big Blue seems to be taking sharp aim at transactions, which have historically been a weak spot in the security chain. Mobile devices especially have caused headaches for IT professionals, in large measure because non-IT employees simply do not have the same level of training as their IT counterparts. If a link or email looks legitimate, end users are not shy about opening it, but they can quickly infect their device with malware or spyware. With most workplace mobile devices running on company networks, this poses a real problem…

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