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11. International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 54

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) is an American global technology company offering integrated solutions and services worldwide. The company’s artificial intelligence offerings include their IBM® watsonx™, an AI and data platform and portfolio of AI-powered assistants; IBM® Granite™, a family of open-source, high-performing, and cost-efficient models trained on trusted enterprise data; IBM Consulting, their AI services to redesign workflows; and hybrid cloud offerings that enable AI-ready infrastructure to better scale AI.

On October 22, International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) announced that it is launching the IBM Guardium Data Security Center –offering unified, SaaS-first data security capabilities amid hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum transformation. By providing a common view of organizations’ data assets, it empowers security teams to integrate workflows and address data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, data and AI security posture management, and cryptography management together in a single dashboard.

It also incorporates generative AI features to assist in creating risk summaries and enhancing the productivity of security professionals. The IBM Guardium Data Security Center features BM Guardium AI Security, a software solution designed to safeguard organizations’ AI deployments from security vulnerabilities and data governance violations. It also includes IBM Guardium Quantum Safe, which protects encrypted data from future cyber threats posed by quantum computers. Also, it builds upon the expertise of IBM Research and IBM Consulting.

“Generative AI and quantum computing provide immense opportunities, but they also bring new risks. During this transformative time, organizations need to improve their crypto-agility and carefully monitor their AI models, training data, and usage. IBM Guardium Data Security Center – with its AI Security, Quantum Safe, and other integrated capabilities – provides comprehensive risk visibility”.

-Akiba Saeedi, Vice President, IBM Security Product Management.

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