IBM selected by NATO for cybersecurity posturing

IBM signed a contract with the NATO Communications and Information Agency, or NCI Agency, to help strengthen the Alliance’s cybersecurity posture with improved security visibility and asset management across all NATO enterprise networks. Starting in January 2024, IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Services will be delivering a custom-made, performance-based Asset, Configuration, Patching and Vulnerability, or ACPV, Management Service to the Alliance. As part of the agreement, IBM Consulting will build a customized solution that provides a unified view of NATO’s security posture. The company will deploy data analysis, asset discovery, integrations, and security experts to provide a consolidated ‘single source of truth’ on information about assets, configurations, vulnerabilities, and patches across NATO. This will improve the Alliance’s visibility into cyber risks and empower it to manage potential issues with more ease and speed across its network. Cybersecurity functions across the NATO Enterprise will be able to use IBM Consulting’s ACPV service as the interface to access and dynamically query asset and configuration data, with a special focus on vulnerability management.