IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Centre Workload Protection makes it simple to secure your IBM Cloud PowerVS workloads.
A robust and adaptable cloud platform with integrated security, dependability, availability, and performance is provided by IBM Power Virtual Server. Customers can use this to meet the needs of a wide range of intricate and highly regulated workloads, such as advanced trading or risk management platforms, payment processing solutions, enterprise operations transformation to scale with SAP S/4 HANA on IBM Cloud, or advanced data protection and backup services for compliance-intensive industries like healthcare with Cobalt Iron Compass Power.
Customers can trust IBM to guarantee the security and dependability of the Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) platform infrastructure by adhering to the joint responsibility for security paradigm that applies to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings. The size and complexity of cloud-based operations, however, call for an extra solution that can handle the possibility of workload misconfiguration leading to security or compliance vulnerabilities.
Power servers on IBM Cloud and on-premises are now supported for compliance posture management with the most recent version of IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Centre (SCC) Workload Protection, adding an extra degree of security to your vital workloads operating on PowerVS. With a comprehensive security and compliance solution, this new feature guarantees that important enterprise workloads and applications, such as SAP, Oracle, and DB2, can be better protected and managed.
SCC Workload Protection: What is it?
Customers can monitor and secure workloads across hybrid multicloud environments using IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Centre (SCC) Workload Protection, a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). You may protect your most important business applications by utilising SCC Workload Protection’s sophisticated features for threat detection, cloud security posture management (CSPM) for IBM Cloud (and other clouds), and vulnerability management (VM).
Kuppinger-Cole listed SCC Workload Protection as an industry-leading solution in its 2024 Leadership Compass for CNAPP. With real-time monitoring and insight into security and compliance threats that may impact your workloads, the platform offers unified protection across all of your hybrid multicloud systems.
How does PowerVS benefit from SCC Workload Protection?
Compliance posture management features for important workloads on PowerVS, such as AIX and Enterprise Linux on Power, are now available with SCC Workload Protection. In addition to advanced workload protection features with vulnerability scanning and real-time threat detection for Linux on Power, compliance posture management is intended to offer unified monitoring of your workloads’ posture to assist in accessing and managing compliance against industry and regulatory standards, such as CIS Benchmarks.
With the following essential features and advantages, businesses using PowerVS for mission-critical workloads may continue to spur innovation in the current cloud transformation era while adhering to regulations and upholding strict security for regulated workloads at scale:
Inventory view of assets for unified management across hybrid cloud workloads
- unified inventory view of workloads across hybrid multicloud, including IBM Cloud services, PowerVS, and IBM Power on-premises for Linux and AIX. Use deep platform insights to centralise your whole task landscape automatically.
- In order to guarantee less disruption and fewer compatibility problems, seamless configuration is immediately linked with IBM Cloud native services, resources, and configurations.

Thorough workload configuration monitoring via a compliance dashboard
- Built-in, unconventional control rules that are based on industry standards and regulatory frameworks like NIST 800-53, SOC2, DORA, and CIS Benchmarks for Linux, AIX, and IBM Cloud.
- A compliance posture dashboard makes it simple to compare the level of compliance with implemented policies and analyse the control requirements for specific resources, such as servers and apps, in order to quickly detect and address problems.
- A thorough compliance score is produced by comparing policy evaluations to CIS benchmarks as well as other industry and regulatory frameworks. The tool helps you close any compliance gaps by identifying non-compliant systems and providing practical remedial advice.
The capacity to use vulnerability management to detect security threats prior to production
- Automated scanning of all infrastructure deployment processes to find critical flaws and rank the packages that consume the most Linux resources and are most at risk.
- Real-time threat detection using runtime policies, which include drift control to identify risks to Linux resources in real-time and rules to identify and react to suspicious activity and violations.
Other applications for SCC Workload Protection
- By keeping an eye on the lifecycle of AIX versions and offering insight into the dangers of operating unsupported versions and any potential vulnerabilities that can result from using out-of-date software, we can monitor the end of life (EOL) for AIX 7.
- With native support in the IBM Cloud platform and extensive support across hybrid multicloud settings, including IBM Cloud, other cloud providers, and on-premises workloads, we are promoting the safe adoption of IBM Cloud and Hybrid Cloud.
SCC Workload Protection is a key factor for businesses wishing to use IBM Cloud and better manage their hybrid cloud architecture since it incorporates Linux compliance posture management or PowerVS AIX compliance posture management into the platform. It provides centralised access management and simpler setup with native integration in IBM Cloud’s platform, cutting down on time to value and operating expenses to safeguard these vital workloads. In conclusion, SCC Workload Protection improves risk management and operational confidence by providing a unified view of security and compliance for PowerVS workloads.
Start Using PowerVS’s SCC Workload Protection
SCC Workload Protection, a hybrid multicloud CNAPP solution, is accessible to all clients who need state-of-the-art security and compliance management throughout their whole environment, including Power, PowerVS, Linux on Power, AIX on Power, and IBM Cloud.