IBM and HCL Collaborate to Develop Unified Security Platform

The two tech companies are aiming to enhance threat detection across hybrid cloud environments.

IBM Security announced early this month that it will be partnering with innovative technology solutions company HCL Technologies to develop a modernized security operations platform. The two companies will be unifying their security technologies to create a streamlined security operation center (SOC) that will provide users with improved threat detection and management solutions. The collaboration is part of HCL and IBM’s alliance expansion from October 2020, which aims to accelerate digital transformation in companies through cloud-based integration. This time, HCL’s Cybersecurity Fusion Center will be leveraging IBM’s Cloud Pak for Security to enable organizations to connect security teams, tools, and processes across various threat life cycles.

As industries continue to ramp up digital integration, cybersecurity threats are also becoming increasingly more sophisticated. HCL’s Cybersecurity Fusion Center is designed to deliver threat management services through its unified multi-domain approach. This means it offers enhanced enterprise IT visibility by performing pattern matching to discover anomalies, incident response through alerting and mitigation, historical analysis, and dashboard reporting, as well as threat modeling and attack simulations. Companies can then automate security operations and threat detection, which can help them safeguard data systems even against emerging threats.

Meanwhile, IBM’s Cloud Pak for Security will bridge IBM’s security tools, data and workflows with HCL’s customers. The open software platform will make it easier for users to integrate various automated security data, tools and clouds for deeper insights into threats, allowing them to respond more quickly to risks in hybrid cloud environments. This can help reduce the time needed to investigate threats across data sources and quickly uncover hidden threats.

“Many companies today are struggling with the complexity of security operations amidst cloud adoption and fragmented IT infrastructure, which can hamper their ability to discover and respond to threats,” shared IBM Security Vice President Justin Youngblood. “Modern security demands an open platform that leverages AI and automation to help security operations teams connect disparate tools, provide insights and orchestrate response across hybrid cloud environments.”

HCL is currently included in IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Ecosystem initiative, which aims to help clients manage and modernize workloads for all sorts of cloud environments, such as the IBM public cloud. This is currently being run on Red Hat OpenShift, an open-source container enterprise Kubernetes platform for hybrid cloud deployment. The IBM Ecosystem Unit (IEU) at HCL is also developing digital and cloud-native solutions for various industries, including financial services, telecommunications, life sciences and health care, and energy and utilities. These will also be built on the IBM public cloud via the IBM Cloud Pak software platform.

Maninder Singh, corporate vice president of Cybersecurity Services at HCL, expressed enthusiasm at the company’s continued partnership with IBM in a press release.

“Collaboration is key in the cybersecurity industry to build and implement the solutions to stay one step ahead. This collaboration enables us to enhance the service that we provide to our clients and to combine the threat detection and response technologies with the development of technological processes and the experience of our professionals across all areas of cybersecurity.”

For more information, visit https://www.ibm.com/security.