<A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/07/IBM-digs-into-security-management_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/07/IBM-digs-into-security-management_1.html">IBM is aggressively expanding its security portfolio</A> in hopes of becoming the de facto source of advice and technology for businesses looking to adopt high-level IT governance and risk management strategies -- a transformation among customers that officials at Big Blue cite as both ongoing and inevitable.

As the waves of security threats and data management regulations have washed ashore and left organizations struggling to balance perimeter and internal security concerns with mounting obligations to protect highly-valuable data, companies are being forced to take more of a top-down approach that addresses broad sets of IT-oriented risks, versus individual problems, IBM officials maintain.