Telecommunications

IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) is the trusted security partner for telecommunications carriers and service provider organizations around the world, helping them to cost-effectively improve their information security processes, meet security best practices and achieve regulatory compliance.

Carrier Focused Security

IBM ISS offers scalable, high performance and reliable solutions to protect vast telecommunications networks while still maintaining network optimization. IBM ISS solutions also offer high scalability and low latency which are critical for IP network applications such as VoIP and IPTV.

Cost-effective Security

Faced with protecting a complex and widespread infrastructure, organizations like yours are working to reduce operational costs while optimizing security investments. IBM ISS uses a proven methodology to analyze and prioritize risks, allowing you to remediate issues cost-effectively and in order of severity.

Protection of Your Network and Theirs

With telecommunications carriers and service providers’ network structure changing to accommodate the needs of businesses and subscribers, securing the network from attacks and threats is becoming more important than ever.

By deploying IBM ISS’ ahead of the threat technology, telecommunications carriers and service providers can not only protect their own networks, but also have the ability to offer scalable, managed or "in the cloud" security services.

The Internet Security Systems Protection Platform

IBM ISS delivers preemptive security solutions that protect you “ahead of the threat.” The IBM ISS protection platform secures your infrastructure, ensuring business continuity and enabling cost-effective processes while supporting compliance and risk management requirements.

  • Products
    Install products from the IBM ISS protection platform to stop Internet threats before they impact your network or to enable managed IP security services. IBM ISS offers fully-integrated, end-to-end solutions that prevent attackers from compromising critical systems.

  • Managed Security Services Powered By IBM
    Contract IBM ISS to manage and monitor the security of the most critical parts of your network. IBM ISS will manage the day-to-day aspects of your security infrastructure, reducing costs and freeing your staff to concentrate on more strategic projects.

    Secure Hosting

    Move upstream to capture higher value-added services with IBM Secure Hosting. The Secure Hosting services provides a core value proposition for web and application hosting customers by balancing the need for unsurpassed protection, while ensuring the availability of business critical applications when and where customers need them.

    Secure Access/Connectivity

    IBM Secure Access/Connectivity offerings provide you with an additional revenue source by wrapping security around access/connectivity services protecting customers from worms, viruses and attacks that threaten business continuity, uptime and availability.

    Secure VoIP

    Enhance the quality of service and customer experience for your voice over internet protocol (VoIP) customers. The IBM Secure VoIP offering gives you rapid entry into a great upsell opportunity to your existing VoIP customers. It also creates a competitive advantage for new customers by providing additional capabilities to ensure network availability, uptime and call quality that can be interrupted by network security attacks.

    IBM ISS offers a broad range of managed services to provide complete protection of carrier networks that have become benchmarks for security industry. From e-mail to web, IPS to vulnerability management, the Powered by IBM program has the ability to cover any and all portions carrier network security needs.

  • Professional Security Services
    Rely on IBM ISS expert security consultants to identify specific security concerns through assessment services, then help design and deploy effective solutions to protect your systems and comply with information security regulations. IBM ISS’ comprehensive security consulting services are based on ISO 19977 best practices and are delivered by experienced security experts.