IBM has announced a multi-million dollar cybersecurity investment in the Asia-Pacific region. It includes a security command center in India for cyber response technique training through simulated cyberattacks and a security operation center providing response services.
Asia was the most targeted region last year, experiencing more than one quarter of the cyberattacks IBM observed globally, according to its latest report. This reveals a significant shift from the past decade where North America and Europe had historically ranked as top targets.
IBM saw this trend signal the growing need for cybersecurity investments in the region, particularly in financial services and manufacturing organizations, which experienced nearly 60% of cyberattacks in Asia last year.
Located at IBM offices in Bengaluru, India, the new facilities function as the region’s cybersecurity hub. The IBM Security Command Center offers training simulations based on disaster and emergency response training models with malware, ransomware, and other real-world hacker tools and expert consultations.
And the IBM Security Operations Center is part of the vendor’s network which includes nine locations globally such as the U.S., Australia, Poland, and Saudi Arabia. The network serves more than 2,000 customers worldwide and manages more than 2 million endpoints and 150 billion potential security events per day, the company claims.
“The new IBM Security Command Center is the first in the Asia Pacific enabled to train the entire business in the art of response to a cyberattack event, further enhanced by the real-time experience of our security experts based in the adjoining global Security Operations Center,” Chris Hockings, IBM Security CTO for the Asia Pacific, said in a statement.
