ARMONK, NY–( EMWNews – April 8, 2008) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a breakthrough

in safeguarding virtual server environments and introduced new software to

help businesses better manager risk. The company said the advances can

provide businesses with substantial improvements in securing information,

applications, and information technology (IT) infrastructures around the

globe.

News Facts

 -- Today IBM announced:

    -- A breakthrough research initiative from IBM X-Force and IBM

       Research, code-named "PHANTOM," which offers businesses a new means

       of securing virtualized server environments.  At PHANTOM's core is

       industry-leading network and host intrusion protection used to guard

       the virtual environment and the machines from the inside out. The

       new technology sits in a secure, isolated partition and integrates

       with the hypervisor -- the layer of management software that

       coordinates calls between operating systems and computer hardware.

    -- New software from Tivoli that helps businesses reduce the cost and

       complexity associated with securing data.

 -- Together, these advances can provide substantial improvements in

    securing information, applications, information technology (IT)

    infrastructures and users, as part of IBM's effort to help its clients

    improve their own business sustainability.

 -- IBM's approach to business and information technology security is to

    strategically manage risk end-to-end while supporting governance and

    compliance initiatives across five domains -- information security;

    threat and vulnerability; application security; identity and access

    management and physical security. This approach helps businesses

    attain sustainable processes that can withstand the emergence of

    new threats, regulations and changes in the business environment.

Links to Additional Information

— Future of Data Security podcast

— IBM Video

— Official IBM Press Release

Quotes:

“As sophisticated crime organizations infiltrate business processes and

surreptitiously siphon off enterprise data, they are rapidly outpacing the

advances of many of today’s security offerings,” Val Rahmani, general

manager for IBM Internet

Security Systems said. “In order to withstand and overcome the

explosion of tomorrow’s threats, enterprises must fundamentally change

their security strategies and move to a model of business sustainability —

a strategic approach in which security is designed into processes and

systems to reduce risk and ensure long-term business enablement.”

“Many businesses today have no formal, scalable process to manage thousands

of encryption keys across several terabytes of data. IBM Tivoli Key

Lifecycle Manager helps reduce the complexity and cost of managing the key

lifecycle by automating the management process from key registration to

changes and updates to archiving and destruction of tapes,” said Al Zollar,

general manager, IBM

Tivoli Software. “We intend to build upon this first release with

future capabilities that support a broad range of storage formats and

supporting software and hardware in our continued effort to help clients

improve security of their sensitive company information while also

supporting compliance requirements.”

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