How IBM and Cloudflare are Collaborating to Mitigate Bot-Based Security Threats

By Nataraj Nagaratnam | CTO, IBM Cloud Security, IBM

August 08, 2023

Across the globe, organizations are expanding their hybrid cloud environments to meet their transformation goals. These modernization efforts can support partnership ecosystems, supply chain demands, and other objectives, but they also have the potential to increase security and compliance concerns. According to IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report [1], 95 percent of the surveyed organizations studied have had more than one data breach.

To continue addressing the ever-changing threat landscape, IBM’s expanded offering in collaboration with Cloudflare, the Internet security, performance, and reliability company running one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks today, is now available to Enterprise Premier Plan users. In 2018, IBM first introduced IBM Cloud Internet Services’ (CIS), powered by Cloudflare. This offering allows IBM Cloud customers to configure mission-critical web and application performance and security solutions to help them combat critical security challenges such as with Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) mitigation and data theft protection. Both IBM and Cloudflare continue to have a mission of delivering solutions that will address these potentially costly security threats, without hindering Internet speed or business innovation.

“With the rise of DDoS attacks and data theft, it’s become important to have a provider that helps us meet the challenges of the ever-changing threat landscape. That’s why at Liquid Reply, we have called on IBM Cloud and Cloudflare to help support our security initiatives,” said Davide Sarais, IT Lead at Liquid Reply. “By using IBM Cloud Internet Services, we’ve been able to maintain our compliance posture t. The new features that are available to IBM and Cloudflare clients are exciting advancements that we hope will take our approach to security to the next level.”

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