IBM always-on encryption tackles data breach ‘epidemic’
According to the company, the new IBM Z mainframe technology pervasively encrypts data associated with any application, cloud service, or database all the time at any scale. The system is capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day.
The next-generation mainframe is designed to address the “global epidemic of data breaches.” Since 2013, says the company, more than nine billion data records have been lost or stolen, only four percent of which were encrypted.
“The vast majority of stolen or leaked data today is in the open and easy to use because encryption has been very difficult and expensive to do at scale,” says Ross Mauri, General Manager, IBM Z. “We created a data protection engine for the cloud era to have a significant and immediate impact on global data security.”
Designed to help businesses and organizations comply with new data protection standards, the system is offered as providing advanced cryptographic capabilities while requiring no application changes or having any impact on business service level agreements. In addition to pervasive data encryption, IBM Z features “tamper-responding” encryption keys that causes keys to be invalidated at any sign of intrusion, and encrypted application programming interfaces (APIs).
The system will be initially used as an encryption engine for IBM’s cloud and blockchain services. According to the company, new blockchain services in centers in Dallas, London, Frankfurt, Sao Paolo, Tokyo, and Toronto are secured using the system’s cryptography technology.
“The powerful combination of IBM Z encryption and secure containers differentiates IBM Blockchain services on the cloud by supporting the trust models new blockchain networks require,” says Marie Wieck, general manager, IBM Blockchain. “Enterprise clients also benefit from the ease of use making management transparent to the application and the user.”
The IBM Z runs at 5.2 GHz and features a new scalable system structure that delivers up to a 35 percent capacity increase compared to the previous generation z13 mainframe. It supports up to 2 million Docker containers or 1,000 concurrent NoSQL databases.
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