Threat detection and response services

Your partner against cyberthreats with 24 x 7 prevention and faster, AI-powered detection and response

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Manage any alert at any time

Cyberattacks are more pervasive, innovative and faster than ever. To combat them, you need a collaborative partner that can act as an extension of your team to maximize productivity while protecting your existing investments. We can help your organization reduce cyber risk with a global, end-to-end, vendor-independent threat solution that can manage any alert at any time. It also offers you the visibility and integration you’ve been seeking to optimize your security program.

Many organizations have too few resources and too many different tools providing high volumes of information. This aspect makes it impossible for their teams to dedicate time to their most critical work. In return it leads to higher costs, inefficiencies, alert fatigue and a severe lack of visibility into potential vulnerabilities.

IBM Threat Detection and Response (TDR) services, inclusive of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services, helps your organization protect existing investments and enhance them with AI. It can also help your organization practice proactive security to strengthen defenses, continuously improve security operations and protect the hybrid cloud.

Capabilities
Accelerate business transformation

Everything in your hybrid cloud environment generates data, often collected through many sources. Transform existing tools and services into an integrated, managed 24 x 7 solution backed by our X-Force® Protection Platform, which uses AI to handle up to 85% of alerts. 1

Practice proactive security to reduce risk

Prevent vulnerabilities before they occur, understand your detection effectiveness and get personalized recommendations for how to improve your security posture. Work with X-Force, our elite team of hackers, responders and researchers to strengthen defenses. 

Continuously improve security operations

Increase capabilities to gain deep visibility and foster collaboration to ensure threats are contained and remediated when they’re detected—minimizing business risk while reducing damages and interruption of services.

Use cases

AI-powered threat hunting to confirm threats faster

Proactively mitigate threats with curated and predictive threat intelligence. Use gen AI to correlate threat activity with environmental context, curate threat intel, automate hunts and generate risk assessments to proactively mitigate attacks and prioritize remediation efforts.

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AI‑driven MITRE ATT&CK optimization for maximum detection coverage

Maximize detection posture with AI-driven insights and MITRE ATT&CK. Use gen AI to optimize detection coverage and address critical gaps. Map detections to MITRE ATT&CK, optimize the detection stack with AI-driven insights and automate management and reporting across hybrid-multi-cloud security tools.

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Leverage AI for superior security operations efficacy

Mimic human reasoning to automate triage activity and detect threats faster. Use gen AI to learn from analyst behavior and automate threat alert dispositioning. Automate low-risk incidents, produce explainable insights, prioritize important alerts and identify rare events.

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Cybersecurity assistant—threat investigations

Generate attack insights and cross-correlate activity to accelerate investigations. Use gen AI to simplify investigation workflow and reduce case assembly time. Cross-correlate alerts, simplify contextual comprehension and support analyst decision-making with hypothesis generation.

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Cybersecurity assistant—threat response

Automate remediation with dynamically constructed composable playbooks. Use gen AI to recommend and automate response actions across protection tech. Historical response behavior optimized for threat type and attack progression. Receive specific steps for faster containment, eradication and recovery steps as well as recommendations to lower reoccurrence risk.

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Autonomous Threat Operations Machine

ATOM, available on IBM Consulting® Advantage, is our agentic AI system that goes beyond individual AI agents to create autonomous security operations. This tool manages to do so by orchestrating multiple agents to interact and collaborate with each other across the entire threat lifecycle.

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Dig into the New Threats of 2026 with X-Force

Armed with the insights of our 2026 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report, our team can help you secure your business against cyberthreats. We are offering briefings with our expert team of intelligence analysts to give you customized insights about your organization.

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Case studies

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Doosan Digital Innovation
New cyberthreats demand new approaches
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Belfius Bank
Belgian bank unlocks innovation in IT and cybersecurity

Related services

X-Force

IBM X-Force® provides deep security research expertise and global threat intelligence for enhanced security solutions.

Cyberthreat Management

IBM TDR services, inclusive of MDR services, helps enterprises protect existing investments and enhance them with AI.

Managed Security Services

IBM MSS offers around-the-clock monitoring, management and response to advanced threats, risks and compliance needs.

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Footnotes

Based on IBM’s internal analysis of aggregated performance data observed from engagements with 340+ clients in July 2023. Up to 85% of alerts were handled through automation rather than human intervention, using AI capabilities that are part of IBM’s Threat Detection and Response service. Actual results will vary based on client configurations and conditions and, therefore, generally expected results cannot be provided.