IBM Security and Compliance Center wins second Fortress Cybersecurity Award
For the second consecutive year, IBM Security and Compliance Center has been honored with the Fortress Cybersecurity Award in the Compliance category. This accolade underscores the team’s continuous dedication and relentless efforts to provide an exceptional customer experience, reflecting IBM’s commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.
About IBM Security and Compliance Center
IBM Security and Compliance Center provides an integrated suite of solutions for organizations to monitor workloads, mitigate risk and keep data secure and compliant across hybrid, multi-cloud environments. With the IBM Security and Compliance Center, organizations can integrate automatic compliance checks into their development lifecycle to minimize risk.
Improving coverage and efficiency
The product team expanded IBM Security and Compliance Center into a solution suite that combines security, risk management, and compliance capabilities to serve the needs of multiple stakeholders within an enterprise. A key challenge with this approach was not only improving coverage and efficiency but also establishing a central cross-team collaboration place for all security monitoring and management. The team focused on extending security capabilities while ensuring a straightforward experience. A significant milestone was the integration of IBM Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection, which provides visibility into cloud resources, discovers vulnerabilities and applies compliance controls across multicloud environments.
“We created a unified vision — illustrated by demos and interactive prototypes — and completed multiple rounds of generative testing, competitive analysis, and user testing on prototypes in each workstream. By putting the user first, the product team has created a strong, market-differentiated product that excites our customers.”
- Zoltan Totik, Design Lead, IBM Cloud Security Services
The Security and Compliance Center distinguishes itself by providing an intuitive user experience and a simple onboarding process. It’s automation streamlines monitoring of on-premises and multicloud environments, replacing tedious manual tasks. It simplifies compliance by providing an easy-to-navigate interface, offering a clear overview of an organization’s security and compliance status.
“Through a series of workshops and enterprise design thinking sessions, the product design team coordinated workflows, flagged gaps, and identified common goals. Building on user research and the identified business challenge, our team synthesized needs into a compelling, unified, end-to-end enterprise platform experience.”
- Sam Mak, Design Lead, IBM Cloud Security Services
About the award
The Fortress Cybersecurity Award is renowned for being a prestigious recognition given to organizations and individuals who demonstrate exceptional achievements and innovations in the field of cybersecurity. It has awards in numerous categories, including compliance, data protection, network security, threat detection, and overall cybersecurity strategy.
Congratulations to the winning Security and Compliance Center team
Design & UX Research
Asha Newsom, Casey Tang, Kamil Zal, Ramiya Ramanathan, Samantha Mak, Samuel Griffiths, Zoltan Totik, Zsolt Varga
Product Management
Janet Van, Milind Phase
Engineering
Ajay Chebbi, Ashwini Padubidri Chandrase, Mala Anand, Pier Paolo Manca
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Bill Grady is Director and Head of Design and UX Research for IBM Cloud based in Austin, TX. The above article is personal and does not necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies, or opinions.
