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IBM Unveils Quantum‑Safe Guardium and Resilience Tools

Key Points

  • IBM introduced Guardium Quantum Safe, a data‑security solution that gives enterprises visibility into their cryptographic posture, detects quantum‑vulnerable encryption, and prioritizes remediation to protect data from both traditional and future quantum attacks.
  • To address costly downtime—estimated at $1‑$5 million per hour—and its impact on customer trust, IBM launched the IBM Concert Resilience Lens, a tool that helps organizations identify and close resilience gaps across applications, integrate siloed data, and proactively minimize outages.
  • IBM announced that its APO portfolio—including Target Process for agile planning, financial management, and Cloud FinOps—has been made available on Microsoft Azure, enabling native SaaS integration with Azure DevOps for streamlined budgeting, workforce alignment, and spend visibility.
  • The combined offerings aim to help enterprises manage rising technology budgets, especially with generative‑AI workloads, by delivering enhanced security, operational resilience, and cost‑optimization across cloud environments.

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# IBM Unveils Quantum‑Safe Guardium and Resilience Tools **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMzmDN07ok](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMzmDN07ok) **Duration:** 00:03:39 ## Summary - IBM introduced Guardium Quantum Safe, a data‑security solution that gives enterprises visibility into their cryptographic posture, detects quantum‑vulnerable encryption, and prioritizes remediation to protect data from both traditional and future quantum attacks. - To address costly downtime—estimated at $1‑$5 million per hour—and its impact on customer trust, IBM launched the IBM Concert Resilience Lens, a tool that helps organizations identify and close resilience gaps across applications, integrate siloed data, and proactively minimize outages. - IBM announced that its APO portfolio—including Target Process for agile planning, financial management, and Cloud FinOps—has been made available on Microsoft Azure, enabling native SaaS integration with Azure DevOps for streamlined budgeting, workforce alignment, and spend visibility. - The combined offerings aim to help enterprises manage rising technology budgets, especially with generative‑AI workloads, by delivering enhanced security, operational resilience, and cost‑optimization across cloud environments. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMzmDN07ok&t=0s) **Untitled Section** - ## Full Transcript
0:00IBM Guardian Quantum safe the APO 0:03portfolio on Azure and the IBM concert 0:06resilience lens all on this episode of 0:09IBM Tech 0:12[Music] 0:14now Quantum Computing is ushering in a 0:17new cryptographic era one where cyber 0:19criminals can Harvest confidential data 0:21now to decrypt later when they 0:23potentially gain access to 0:25cryptographically relevant quantum 0:27computers and the scary thing is that 0:29with quantum computer traditional 0:31encryption algorithms that would take 0:32centuries to break using conventional 0:34computers may be cracked within mere 0:37hours that's why IBM is proud to 0:39announce IBM guardium Quantum safe a 0:42part of the guardium data security 0:44center it's built to help you gain 0:46visibility into your cryptographic 0:48posture allowing teams to develop and 0:50execute remediation plans more quickly 0:52and effectively guardium Quantum safe 0:55monitors your Enterprises cryptography 0:57use uncovers cryptographic vulnerability 1:00and prioritizes Remediation to secure 1:02your data from both conventional and 1:05Quantum enabled risks it also offers 1:07customizable metadata and flexible 1:09reporting so that critical 1:11vulnerabilities can be prioritized for 1:13remediation to learn more about IBM 1:16Guardian Quantum safe check out the 1:18information 1:20below downtime is costly amazingly the 1:23cost of a single hour of downtime can be 1:25between1 and $5 million what's even 1:28worse is the impact of downtime on 1:30customer satisfaction and Trust that's 1:33why we're thrilled to introduce the IBM 1:35concert resilience lens a powerful tool 1:38designed to help organizations 1:39proactively manage and enhance their 1:41application 1:43resilience IBM concert resilience lens 1:45enables you to identify and address 1:47resilience gaps across your application 1:50landscape this helps prevent critical 1:52production outages minimize resource 1:54costs and Safeguard your long-term 1:56operational success with the new IBM con 2:00resilience lens you can integrate Silo 2:02data measure what matters and minimize 2:05outages and risks simply put IBM concert 2:08resilience lens empowers you to 2:10standardize resilience efforts identify 2:13gaps and take proactive steps towards 2:15achieving your resilience goals to learn 2:18more hit the link 2:20below IBM recently announced that it's 2:23bringing the aptio portfolio of 2:25Enterprise agile planning it financial 2:28management and Cloud finops solutions to 2:30Microsoft Azure as it leaders grapple 2:33with growing technology budgets and 2:35managing new generative AI fueled 2:37compute needs they're facing increasing 2:40pressure to prove the value of their 2:42Investments now available on the Azure 2:44Marketplace IBM Target process EAP 2:47software helps you plan and manage 2:49budgets and align your workforces across 2:52various technology priorities as a 2:54native software as a service solution 2:56from IBM's acquisition of APO Target 2:59process integrates with Azure devops to 3:02provide simplified management increased 3:04efficiencies and potential cost 3:06savings IBM Target process enhances 3:09Azure devops capabilities providing 3:11endtoend visibility from the team level 3:13up and a single source of Truth for Tech 3:16spend and labor 3:18allocation to learn more hit the link 3:21below thanks so much for joining me 3:23today for this episode of IBM Tech now 3:25if you're interested in learning more 3:26about the topics I've covered make sure 3:28you explore the links in the description 3:29this video and of course please don't 3:31forget to subscribe to our channel to 3:33stay up to date on what's going on in 3:35Tech now