Security News > 2023 > May > IBM snags Polar Security to boost cloud data practice

In an effort to grow its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, IBM announced on Tuesday that it was acquiring Polar Security, an Israel-based company specializing in data security posture management.

A 2023 study by Gartner, looking at DSPM functions and capabilities, reported that DSPM solutions are getting savvier at uncovering data repositories and identifying their exposure risk, thanks to their ability to use data lineage to "Discover, identify and map data, across structured and unstructured data repositories, that relies on integrations with, for example, specific infrastructure, databases and CSPs.".

Gartner also noted that DSPM technologies use custom integrations with identity and access management products to create data security alerts, "But typically do not integrate with third-party data security products, which leads to a variety of security approaches."

The release characterized Polar Security as an agentless platform that connects within minutes and finds unknown and sensitive data across the cloud, including structured and unstructured assets within cloud service providers, SaaS properties and data lakes.

IBM said it will integrate Polar Security's DPSM technology within its Guardium family of data security products in order to expand Guardium into a data security platform that spans all data types across all storage locations - SaaS, on-premise and in public cloud infrastructure.

Eighty-six percent of security professionals polled in cloud-data security firm Laminar's 2023 State of Public Cloud Data Security Report said they have increased visibility into the public cloud data.

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