IBM announced <A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19689.wss">new products for IT management and security</A> as well as consulting services capabilities to help businesses address emerging cyber-threats and the need to reduce IT complexity. The new offerings are in response to growing demand from clients for secure industry standard computing that banishes the one size fits all proprietary approach of the past so that companies can more easily build service oriented architectures. The new IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances and SOA security consulting services can help business fend off threats from the estimated 85 percent of malware--including computer hacking, consumer identity theft crimes, viruses or other security vulnerabilities--that is motivated by illegal profits. The emergence of organized cyber crime, coupled with the necessity for organizations to comply with myriad government regulations that ensure security and privacy of client data, has made securing IT infrastructures through industry standard technologies critical for organizations of all sizes, and in all industries. New IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances--based on technology acquired from DataPower last year--are less than two inches tall and 19 inches wide and can be installed and configured in minutes to help avoid the aftermath of many of these cyber crimes that costs businesses billions of dollars in lost revenue, lost customers and lost employee productivity. These specialty devices are inserted into a client's existing network to secure, manage and authenticate the validity of messages from various sources including Web transactions, RFID and other wireless devices up to 10 times faster than general purpose systems.