Privacy passports control third-party data access

18th October 2019

By: Schalk Burger

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

     

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Information technology multinational IBM has launched its z15 enterprise platform data privacy passports, which allow users to control who gets access to data through policy-based controls.

The passports allow for tracking and instantly revoking access to a company’s data held by partners in its supply chain, says IBM z Systems spokesperson Rishi Nirghin.

IBM launched its latest IBM z15 enterprise platform last month, which aims to build on the z14 pervasive encryption and manage enterprise data and transactions at scale by enabling clients to fully manage the privacy of client data across hybrid and multicloud environments, he says.

“The movement of data between partners and third parties is one of the root causes of data breaches and, as more businesses report that they suffered a data breach, the challenge of maintaining data security and privacy is only becoming more acute.”

Pervasive encryption of data residing inside organisations, in cloud service providers and with business partners, as well as during transmission from one process or database to another, is one of the main measures companies are using to address the risks.

Managing data access and privacy has been built into the architecture of the z15 hardware, adds Nirghin.

The data privacy passports also allow for granular exposure of the data, specifically controlling access to only the data that is necessary for specific business processes or required by business partners to fulfil their functions.

This capability extends throughout an enterprise’s ecosystem and allows for privacy levels to be set so that only certain portions of data are provided when needed.

“Data breaches and cyberattacks are boardroom-level discussions these days, owing to their risks and impacts on businesses. These discussions are part of digital transformation, market disruption and opportunities for businesses,” says Nirghin.

Digital transformation is expected to affect about 80% of workloads. Companies are moving mission-critical applications to cloud platforms, which leads to hybrid enterprise environments.

IBM has focused on supporting and enabling enterprise hybrid environments. Its acquisitions, including that of enterprise open source company Red Hat, are aimed at facilitating containerisation, microservices and common platforms for enterprises to rapidly develop and deploy applications, while ensuring common and consistent management of security policies across the applications, environments and value chains.

“We are proposing our IBM z15 as a platform for enterprises to build cloud-native applications and simplify their journey to the cloud. This includes encrypting data at sources of origin, which helps to prevent data breaches and significantly limits what cyberattackers can see and do if they manage get into a company’s networks.”

The tooling built into the IBM z15 platform allows for orchestration of enterprise data and helps to reduce the time to do this by 52%, owing to the enterprise scale of the platform, says Nirghin.

The speed at which enterprises can manage their environments, data, cloud systems and applications at scale has a direct impact on their ability to improve time-to-market for products and services. IBM believes that its z15 platform provides the necessary tools for enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation, while maintaining control and cybersecurity.

One z15 server can execute one-trillion Web transactions a day and the IBM z series enterprise systems handle more than 30-billion transactions a day, he adds.

Adoption of the z14 platform has been robust in South Africa and IBM South Africa is in talks with clients to upgrade their servers and move to the new platform, concludes Nirghin.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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