IBM Infrastructure: Continuous Risk & Compliance

Learn all about AI-powered visibility, telemetry, and proactive security across mainframe, cloud, containers, and enterprise workloads.

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IBM Infrastructure: Continuous Risk & Compliance

Learn all about AI-powered visibility, telemetry, and proactive security across mainframe, cloud, containers, and enterprise workloads.

By: Trend Micro

Nov 12, 2025

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Imagine real-time insights into where, when, and how the next cyber threat could strike your enterprise—with advanced guidance on how to prevent it. Complete visibility across your entire infrastructure: mainframe, midrange, endpoints, cloud, containers, network, AI, APIs, user behaviors, and unmanaged or unknown assets – unified under intelligent threat prevention and response.

Rich, actionable data revealing what is at risk and how it is connected to critical assets or data for accelerated decision-making and execution. A single source of truth for continuous enterprise-wide security and compliance control.

IBM & Trend Micro: Co-Creating in a New Age of AI Driven Infrastructure Cybersecurity

IBM and Trend Micro™ are co-creating to revolutionize infrastructure security for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE customers. The era of siloed security is over.

With the rise of AI in security – both as a target and a tool – we want to arm organizations for a new level of trusted control empowering AI transformation while maintaining responsible corporate governance leveraging AI.

The Foundations:

1. IBM Z 17 and LinuxONE 5

The launch of IBM Z 17 and LinuxONE 5 makes predictive cybersecurity a practical reality. These platforms feature:

• AI-powered threat detection built into the Telum II processor

• Real-time analysis of transactional data to detect anomalies before they escalate

• AI governance and quantum-safe infrastructure for hybrid environments

2. Trend Deep Security

Trend’s trusted and proven Deep Security is now available for Mainframe protection beginning with Anti-malware.

Together, IBM and Trend are enabling organizations to lead AI-driven transformation with confidence and control.

Steps on the Journey: From Endpoint to Enterprise

The journey begins with endpoint protection, evolving to a comprehensive, AI-driven security ecosystem.

Private Preview September 30th (General Availability November 30, 2025):

• Endpoint Security Anti-malware protection

Support for additional Endpoint Security will follow:

• Web reputation

• Firewall

• Application control

• Intrusion prevention

• Integrity monitoring

• OpenShift Container Platform

Future Step: Trend Vision One Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM)

After Deep Security and OCP full coverage is completed, the final step will enable CREM for IBM Z 17 and IBM LinuxONE. This will combine risk and exposure data with industry frameworks for predictive insights and alerts powering proactive mitigation. Availability of this module will be market driven.

IBM Z 17 and IBM LinuxONE 5 enhance this potential with:

• real-time telemetry

• AI acceleration

• Quantum-safe infrastructure

enabling Trend Vision One to operate directly on mission-critical high transaction workloads with high fidelity and low latency.

CREM Integration and Intelligence

Open hybrid architecture allows for seamless integration with third-party tools, multi-clouds, and threat intelligence platforms—protecting existing investments. This combines with telemetry gathered by native sensors and consolidates in a common data lake. Data correlation and predictive AI inform actions for SecOps automation. It can also feed other corporate data lakes and AI systems.

Agentic and predictive analytics applied to the gathered exposures and vulnerabilities, and mapped with compliance frameworks, delivers real-time risk and compliance scoring with visualized blast radius attack paths highlighting sensitive data, applications, or users at risk.

CISOs, executives, and security analysts will access a unified cyber risk index—benchmarked against industry peers and broken down by business unit, asset, groups, and individual assets and users.

Intelligent Transparent Dashboards

A comprehensive dashboard provides:

• Risk scores by device, user, department, and enterprise with peer comparisons

• Full transparency drilldowns

• Agentic AI mitigation recommendations

• Transparent algorithms with results clearly explained

• The potential for integration with other enterprise AI tools for further automation

Organizations can tailor the system to exclude accepted risk factors -ensuring the model aligns with unique corporate realities.

Mainframe Security Evolved

Mainframe security is stronger than ever—now backed by:

• Real-time telemetry

• AI-driven scoring

• Contextual enterprise-wide visibility

IBM and Trend Micro are advancing cybersecurity for mission-critical infrastructure bringing predictive AI-powered protection to the heart of your business.

The Next Level for Business Transformation: Securing AI and the Application Modernization Journey

AI transformation is more than technological innovation – it’s a strategic shift that demands proactive, real-time risk and compliance monitoring—embedded across the entire development lifecycle.

In this model, AI development workflows and large language models (LLMs) become integrated components of the enterprise risk scoring system. This ensures that every stage of AI development including AI endpoints, creation and deployment are continuously assessed for compliance and security.

As organizations modernize mainframe applications for efficiencies and to meet evolving regulatory standards, every change can be monitored for risk – enabling confident expansion of workloads on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE. This provides continuous risk measurement ensuring modernization efforts are aligned with enterprise governance.

Organizations gain peace of mind AI adoption and infrastructure modernization strategically governed with industry frameworks and best practices.

The Smarter, Proactive SOC

With prioritized, proactive alerts and actionable recommendations, the burden of guesswork and manual analysis is lifted from the Security Operations Center (SOC). Analysts immediately see prioritized risks needing their attention ranked by business impact. No more second-guessing priorities, overwhelming alert volumes, or piecing together fragmented data.

IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE are now integral parts of a unified, intelligent ecosystem for modern enterprise-wide corporate risk control.

Automation powered by default and customizable templates accelerates security operations, patching, and ITSM workflows. As risks are addressed, the system continuously updates the organization’s overall risk posture.

New AI Application Security, including LLM security scanners and access layer monitoring, brings visibility and control to AI. These tools help detect and prevent threats like prompt injections and shadow AI, ensuring both inbound and outbound AI activity is governed by policy.

The system is aligned with the latest industry compliance frameworks, including those rapidly evolving for AI. IBM and Trend are actively contributing to standards bodies shaping frameworks.

The ROI: Measurable Impact and Value

A study by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), part of Informa Tech Target, highlights the tangible benefits of adopting a proactive risk and compliance strategy. Organizations reported an average savings of $1.3 million—driven by a 99.6% reduction in alert volume and 65% faster threat response times.

IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE contribute directly to these types of outcomes with:

• Real-time telemetry

• AI-powered threat detection

• Automated risk scoring

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