This post covers the IBM Red Paper: Addressing Emerging Threats and Targeted Attacks with IBM Security Network Protection (redp4826). The book is about addressing new kinds of network threats such as advanced persistent threats (APTs), stealth bots, targeted application attacks, and designer malware. For an up-to-date understanding of the threat landscape the reader is referred… Read More »
This post covers the IBM Redbook: Using the IBM Security Framework and IBM Security Blueprint to Realize Business-Driven Security published in April 2013. This book provides an introduction to the IBM security framework and blueprint. I do not cover this here because I previously covered it in my post Managing Security and Compliance in Cloud… Read More »
In this post I cover the IBM Red Book SG248082: Managing Security and Compliance in Cloud or Virtualized Data Centers. The IBM Security Framework provides a top-level view on security: At the second level of detail IBM provides Security Blueprint. The Security Blueprint categorizes and defines security capabilities and services that are required to answer… Read More »
In this post I want to provide a brief top-down summary of reference architectures that are applicable to banks embarking on a cloud computing journey. I will provide links to other posts where my more detailed views can be found. IBM CCRA Starting at the top we find the IBM Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA). … Read More »
The IBM Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA) and Common Cloud Management Platform (CCMP) are useful to understanding the IBM Private Modular Cloud (CMP). CCMP includes Operational Support Systems (OSS) and Business Support Systems (BSS). At the highest level the IBM point of view can be summarized as follows: For an expanded view of the CCRA… Read More »
For banks wanting to increase IT agility and decrease IT costs via a cloud-enabled data center, this IBM Redguide is a must read. The words “increase agility and decrease costs” are used a lot and my brain tends to filter out words that it hears a lot. However, every major delay to a critical project… Read More »
IBM and Monitise have recently announced a partnership to deploy new mobile banking, payments and commerce solutions. Monitise provides services to more than 350 financial institutions and has partnerships with most UK high street banks. It also has strategic partnerships with Visa Europe, Visa Inc., RBS Group, Telefónica Digital and FIS to create and… Read More »
Dear Bank of Mine, you have an app on my phone. I just went from KL to NYC and my phone knows all about it. Do you? We need to be thinking of mobile phones as sensors. Not just so that mobile apps can be context sensitive–but so the entire enterprise can be. Any transactions… Read More »
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A Web application goes beyond the shallow functionality of a Web site to offer deep digital services such as transactions which affect the organization’s systems of record. For this, expert developers use sophisticated tooling to build unique and complex systems of engagement that are able to manage transactions against multiple back-end systems. IBM’s Web application… Read More »