NATO has selected IBM to help strengthen the alliance’s cybersecurity posture with improved security visibility and asset management across all NATO enterprise networks.

From 2024, IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Services will begin delivering a custom-made, performance-based asset, configuration, patching and vulnerability management service to NATO.

This will involve IBM building a customised solution that provides a unified view of NATO’s security posture, while the company will deploy data analysis, asset discovery, integrations, and security experts to provide a consolidated ‘single source of truth’ on information about assets, configurations, vulnerabilities, and patches across NATO.

IBM said the overall solution will improve the alliance’s visibility into cyber risks and empower it to manage potential issues with more ease and speed across its network.

It added that cybersecurity functions across the NATO Enterprise will be able to use IBM Consulting’s ACPV service as the interface to access and dynamically query asset and configuration data, with a special focus on vulnerability management.

“Collaboration with industry is essential to enhance our collective cyber resilience and respond more quickly to cyber threats and vulnerabilities,” said Ludwig Decamps, general manager at Nato Communications and Information agency. “Today’s agreement marks a significant milestone in a newly enhanced procurement process, enabling more agile and faster approaches to complex sourcing to deliver solutions that help strengthen the alliance’s cybersecurity posture.”

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