IBM has purchased application security startup Polar Security, in an attempt to address the security of application data in the cloud and help organizations track vulnerable information.
In a statement issued this morning, IBM said that the increased cloud adoption driven by the pandemic has strained organizational capacity to track certain aspects of their application frameworks, including certain types of app data, permissions and more. The company said that this has led to “shadow data,” which isn’t being actively tracked, as well as siloing of information.
The company called Polar a pioneer of “data security posture management,” which focuses on discovery and organization of sensitive information — the idea is identify where sensitive data is stored and what it’s being used for, as well as identifying potential issues in security policy, data usage and configurations.
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