IBM Institute for Advanced Security in Europe

The purpose of this initiative consists in expansion of the all-corporate program of IBM and providing the government and other key organizations with services of a global network of the research centers, advisory and customer services, centers of the advanced software and technologies which personnel have expert knowledge and experience in area of security.

The mission of the IBM Institute for Advanced Security in Europe institute located in Brussels is directed to the help in the solution and mitigation of the problems connected with security of a cyberspace, way:

• binding and supports of interaction of the organizations of the public and private sector, educational institutions and business partners with experts of IBM in the field of researches, services, the software and technologies;
• assistance to the organizations in use of new security technologies in such spheres as analytics, identification with the increased confidentiality, data encryption; and
• offers to the organizations of various resources, including podcasts, professional opportunities of task force X-Force, blogs and the best techniques which promote the solution of the growing security concerns on the Internet, in environments of cloud computing and environments of management of the final systems.

The IBM Institute for Advanced Security in Europe institute will also serve the organizations as the platform for holding forums, helping to define how recent innovations of IBM Research (such as capability to analyze the ciphered information without prejudice to confidentiality) and global staff of qualified specialists of IBM in security can help them to perform the activity on more intellectual basis at simultaneous security and confidentiality of information. Along with it, the center will solve specific problems, such as security of mobile devices.

The additional resources available through Institute for Advanced Security in Europe institute include information briefings and demonstration actions in a number of IBM Research Labs laboratories and the Executive Briefing Centres conference centers, including in the British research center IBM Hursley and research laboratory IBM in Zurich (IBM Zurich Labs).

As the physical and digital worlds continue "face", and the planet becomes more and more technically equipped, interconnected and intellectual, opening of the European institute Institute for Advanced Security increases capability of IBM to assist the organizations in protection against constantly evolving security risks.

IBM will select possibilities of the 15-thousand staff of the multi-profile security experts working worldwide for the help in the solution of a broad spectrum of problems of cyber security. Being an owner over 3000 patents in the field of security and risk management, and the world's largest database of threats and vulnerabilities, IBM is capable effectively and is efficient to help the global organizations that they worried about security concerns less.

Experience of IBM in developments and innovations in the field of security exceeds 40 years. IBM has resources, unprecedented on the width and depth, – including research laboratories, development centers of products and services, consulting and customer services and also a global network of business partners – to deliver functionally exhaustive end-to-end security solutions. IBM opened nine research laboratories worldwide creating the innovative technologies of security, and nine international command centers security which help the global organizations to improve and service their systems of protection.