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IBM Cloud Essential Security and Observability Services

Deploy core security and other supporting services to get set up to manage the security compliance of the resources in your account.

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  • Date of last update: 07/12/2025
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    Type
    • Software
    Provider
    • IBM
    Category
    • Observability
    • Security
    Last updated
    • 07/12/2025
    Product version
    • v3.0.0
    Variation
    • Standard
    Est. deployment time:
    • 49min
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Details

Type
  • Software
Provider
  • IBM
Category
  • Observability
  • Security
Last updated
  • 07/12/2025
Product version
  • v3.0.0
Variation
  • Standard
Est. deployment time:
  • 49min
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Overview

Get IBM Cloud’s suite of core security services with a single deployment enabling you to securely manage keys and secrets and run security and compliance scans so that you always know the posture of the resources in your account. You can also take advantage of an event notification routing service that notifies you to critical events that occur in your IBM Cloud account and observability services that provide enterprise-grade monitoring and logging giving you operational visibility into the performance and health of your apps, services, and infrastructure.

Features and capabilities

Creates an IBM Key Protect instance

Creates and configures an IBM Key Protect instance and creates root keys for IBM Cloud Object Storage, Event Notifications, and Secrets Manager.

Creates an IBM Secrets Manager instance

Creates and configures an IBM Secrets Manager instance.

Creates an IBM Security and Compliance Center instance

Creates and configures an IBM Security Compliance Center instance.

Creates an Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection instance

Creates and configures an Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection instance.

Creates an IBM Cloud Object Storage instance

Creates and configures an IBM Cloud Object Storage instance and multiple Object Storage buckets that is encrypted by Key Protect.

Creates an IBM Cloud Event Notifications instance

Creates and configures an IBM Cloud Event Notifications instance with topics for Secrets Manager and Security and Compliance Center events.

Creates service-to-service authorizations

Creates and configures service-to-service authorizations for the following services: KMS, Event Notifications, Object Storage, Secrets Manager, and Security and Compliance Center.

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Focus sentinel

The architecture of IBM Cloud Essential Security and Observability Services stack.

The IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center manages compliance profiles that indicate when a product meets defined requirements. Each profile can contain multiple controls. Only controls that are claimed and scanned are displayed in the table. IBM Cloud Essential Security and Observability Services claims the following security and compliance information.

CIS IBM Cloud Foundations Benchmark v1.1.0 profile

Profile version 1.1.0

Complete scan
Category
Description
2.0Storage
8.0Key Management

Getting support

If you’re experiencing issues with this product, review the troubleshooting information available from the “Docs” link in the Related links section. If you can’t resolve your problem, click “Get help” in the related links and create a case.

https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/supportcenter

Summary

IBM Cloud Essential Security and Observability Services

    • Total estimated cost
      *$0.00/mo
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