As part of the agreement, IBM Consulting will build a customised solution that provides a unified view of NATO’s security posture.
IBM signed a contract with the NATO Communications and Information Agency to help strengthen the Alliance’s cybersecurity posture with improved security visibility and asset management across all NATO enterprise networks.
As part of the agreement, IBM Consulting will build a customised solution that provides a unified view of NATO’s security posture. The company will deploy data analysis, asset discovery, integrations, and security experts to provide a consolidated ‘single source of truth’ on information about assets, configurations, vulnerabilities, and patches across NATO.
This will improve the Alliance’s visibility into cyber risks and empower it to manage potential issues more easily and quickly across its network. Cybersecurity functions across the NATO Enterprise will be able to use IBM Consulting’s ACPV service as the interface to access and dynamically query asset and configuration data, with a special focus on vulnerability management.
Ludwig Decamps, NCI Agency General Manager, said, “Collaboration with industry is essential to enhance our collective cyber resilience and respond more quickly to cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Today’s agreement marks a significant milestone in a newly enhanced procurement process, enabling more agile and faster approaches to complex sourcing to deliver solutions that help strengthen the Alliance’s cybersecurity posture.”
This new service will be built on the existing asset, configuration, and patching solutions across NATO. Additionally, the service will help create an enterprise framework that will eventually support the needs of other key functional areas, such as IT service management and finance and auditing departments, which rely on asset configuration and patch management information through a federated approach.
“Amid today’s growing geopolitical tensions globally, NATO’s security readiness is more important than ever. It is essential to ensure IT assets and infrastructure are properly maintained, regularly updated, and effectively secured to defend against rapidly increasing cyber threats. At IBM, we are proud to be able to provide our vast and deep experience in threat management to help NATO strengthen its security posture,” said Mohamad Ali, Chief Operating Officer of IBM Consulting.
