IBM announced the official opening of a new global security operations center in Bangalore designed to provide clients from around the world with the highest level of around-the-clock protection and service. Adding to the network of IBM global security operations centers, this state-of-the-art facility is constantly staffed with managed security services professionals and members of the X-Force security research and development team to provide real-time analysis and early warning notification of security events to the more than 4,000 managed security services clients worldwide.

The new security operations center represents a multimillion dollar investment by the corporation to continue to expand into significant growth markets including India. IBM operates eight other global security operations centers in Atlanta, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan; Boulder, Colorado; Toronto, Canada; Brussels, Belgium; Tokyo, Japan; Brisbane, Australia; and Hortolandia, Brazil, all servicing clients from points across the globe. IBM Security Services' security operations centers are designed to ensure that mission-critical systems, electrical systems, data processing and communication links are protected from any single point of failure.