Secure and Simplify Compliance Across Hybrid Multicloud Environments
Get unified visibility, AI-driven insights, and real-time workload protection.
Overview of the Product
IBM Security and Compliance Center enables organizations to proactively manage security, risk, and compliance across hybrid and multicloud environments. This comprehensive solution combines cloud-native protection, centralized policy management, and AI-powered insights to secure workloads, manage vulnerabilities, and streamline regulatory compliance. With integrated CNAPP capabilities, enterprises gain visibility and control over cloud posture, entitlements, and real-time threat detection—helping both security and DevOps teams build and scale securely.
Why Choose IBM Security and Compliance Center?
Aligns with regulatory frameworks and industry standards for faster audit readiness.
Provides a centralized view of security risks, misconfigurations, and identity entitlements across environments.
Utilizes AI and real-time analytics to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities.
Integrates with CI/CD pipelines to enforce policy-as-code and reduce drift.
Implements security guardrails to support governance and control over AI and generative AI operations.
Supports cloud-native workloads, containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift with deep protection and forensic capabilities.
What the Numbers say?
Features
Monitors assets, misconfigurations, and risks across hybrid and multicloud.
Secures containers, Kubernetes, and hosts with runtime defense and incident response.
Correlates risk signals across workloads, identities, and runtime events.
Detects threats in real time and automates remediation before production.
Analyzes identity permissions to prevent over-privileged access and reduce risk.
Protects infrastructure running AI models with policies tailored for AI workloads.
Key Facts
IBM SCC integrates seamlessly with IBM Cloud and third-party services
Built on FIPS 140-2 Level 3 HSMs for highest-grade key protection
Supports policy mapping to frameworks like ISO 27001, NIST, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR
Case Studies
Scaling Security Compliance with IBM Security and Compliance Center
A global technology enterprise strengthened its cloud governance and compliance framework using the IBM Security and Compliance Center integrated with the IBM Hybrid Cloud Platform. The solution automated compliance reporting, unified visibility across cloud environments, and improved audit readiness — achieving a 52% improvement in security compliance efficiency while ensuring adherence to corporate and regulatory standards.
Business challenge
Managing compliance across multiple hybrid cloud environments was complex and time-consuming. The organization needed to continuously monitor configurations, assess vulnerabilities, and generate audit reports that met internal and industry compliance standards.
The enterprise sought to:
- Centralize visibility of compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Automate the detection of configuration drift and noncompliance.
- Simplify audit reporting for internal and external regulators.
- Improve collaboration between compliance and security teams.
Solution
The global enterprise implemented the IBM Security and Compliance Center (SCC) on the IBM Hybrid Cloud Platform to automate compliance management and streamline reporting.
The SCC dashboard provided a unified view of compliance posture across cloud services and workloads, enabling faster identification of policy deviations. Through automated controls, the organization continuously assessed its hybrid infrastructure against security benchmarks and industry regulations such as ISO, NIST, and GDPR.
The SCC’s integration with IBM Cloud Security and IBM Security QRadar enhanced real-time monitoring and ensured that compliance data directly supported the company’s broader security strategy.
Solution components
- IBM Security and Compliance Center (SCC)
- IBM Hybrid Cloud Platform
- IBM Security QRadar Integration
Centralized Compliance Visibility
A unified dashboard allowed compliance and security teams to monitor cloud workloads, configurations, and audit results from a single platform.
Automated Policy Enforcement
Continuous compliance scanning identified and remediated nonconforming configurations automatically, reducing manual workload and audit preparation time.
Actionable Insights and Reporting
The SCC provided analytics-driven insights that helped compliance teams prioritize high-risk areas, improving governance alignment and regulatory readiness.
Result
- 52% improvement in security compliance efficiency.
- Automated reporting and audit readiness across hybrid clouds.
- Reduced manual compliance efforts by more than half.
- Strengthened collaboration between compliance and IT operations.
- Enhanced cloud governance and regulatory alignment.
Centrally defining our compliance controls and gaining full visibility into results has been transformative. The IBM Security and Compliance Center allows us to meet ongoing regulatory requirements and adapt to new risks in real time.
— Chief Compliance Officer, Global Technology Enterprise
What The Users Say
“IBM Security and Compliance Center gave us real-time compliance monitoring across our multicloud deployments. We now move faster and with confidence.”
CIO, Global Financial Services Firm
“Our DevOps team loves the policy-as-code integration, and the unified view drastically reduces risk blind spots.”
Head of Cloud Security, Retail Enterprise
FAQ's
It’s a unified platform that continuously monitors cloud environments for security risks, policy violations, and compliance with regulatory standards.
It supports ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and more. Users can customize controls to align with specific industry or geographic regulations.
By providing real-time insights into misconfigurations, unauthorized access, and drift from compliance, helping teams act before breaches occur.
Yes. It generates on-demand reports, audit trails, and dashboards tailored to auditors, risk officers, and IT security teams.
No. It supports hybrid cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, offering multi-cloud governance and security.
The center enforces encryption, access control, and audit logs, and adheres to zero-trust principles for enhanced data protection.
Yes, it integrates with SIEMs, threat intelligence platforms, and policy management tools to offer end-to-end visibility and control.
Nexright sets up policy frameworks, custom compliance rules, and integrates the platform with your DevSecOps pipelines for continuous governance.
