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2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index
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Understand how threat actors think, strategize and strike

IBM® X-Force® Threat Intelligence leverages a team of world-class intelligence analysts to help organizations understand how the threat landscape is changing and the latest techniques that threat actors employ. These analysts mine insights from malware reverse engineering, dark web research and vulnerability tracking to help you better secure your environments.

With a deep understanding of how threat actors think, strategize and strike, X-Force Threat Intelligence can help you prevent, detect, respond to and recover from incidents and focus on business priorities.

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Cost of a Data Breach 2024
Be better prepared for breaches by understanding their causes and the factors that increase or reduce costs. Explore the comprehensive findings from the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024. Learn from the experiences of more than 600 organizations that were hit by a data breach. Read the Cost of Data Breach report
Benefits Enrich your threat analysis

Aggregate your threat detection and response by using threat group profiles, malware analysis reports, malware detection rules and threat activity insights extracted from near real-time threat intelligence.

Optimize threat intelligence detection and sharing

Automate threat intelligence from internal and external data sources through an ecosystem of security tool integrations and open-source intelligence (OSINT) feeds to help your team detect and share threat data faster.

Combine expertise with threat intelligence solutions

Simplify threat intelligence management with help from security professionals who can design, build and operate an automated cyber threat platform that delivers up-to-the-minute threat data to stay ahead of attacks.

Capabilities Cyber exposure insights

Enable continuous discovery to manage your cyber exposure across the surface, deep and dark web. Incorporate both internal and third-party sources.

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Malware reverse engineering  

Explore an in-depth description of how the malware functions, indicators of compromise, payloads, mutexes and processes.

 

Strategic threat assessment  

Examine threat attackers likely to target your organization, including their infection vectors, techniques and procedures.

 

 

Dig into the New Threats of 2024 with X-Force
Armed with the insights of our Threat Intelligence Index 2024 Report, our team can help you secure your business against cyber threats. We are offering briefings with our expert team of intelligence analysts to give you customized insights about your organization. Schedule a no-cost briefing with an expert Read the report
We wanted to help the business community by providing threat intelligence, and we realized that we needed to automate that, and we knew we couldn't do it alone. Joshua Belk Executive Director, LA Cyber Lab
Case Study
Los Angeles creates a first-of-its-kind cyber lab To help protect the community in an increasingly digitized environment, the city of Los Angeles partnered with IBM to create a cyber sharing group that makes it easy to report online criminal activity. By pooling threat intelligence from trusted contributors, data can be converted into meaningful knowledge and decisive action to prevent cybercrime. Read the case study
Meet our experts Robert Gates

With over 13 years of experience, Rob continuously monitors, analyzes and interprets threat intelligence data from various sources, such as deep and dark web forums, vendor repositories, industry reporting and incident reports to identify and assess potential threats to an organization.

Chris Caridi

Chris brings over 13 years of experience to cybersecurity topics, providing value-add analysis for X-Force clients on strategic shifts in the cyber threat landscape. Chris has acted as a primary author for both the Cloud Threat Landscape Report and the X-Force Threat Intelligence Index.

Melissa Frydrych-Dean

With over 11 years of experience, Melissa supports global incident response engagements as well clients, identifying potential threats through the continuous monitoring and analysis of threat intelligence data from various sources. While Melissa has experience researching and reporting on a variety of threat actors, she has a specialized focus on threat activity originating from and targeting Latin America.

Kevin Henson

Kevin brings over 25 years of experience to the X-Force malware reverse engineering team, conducting both static and behavioral analysis on samples to deep dive into technical analysis of malware samples and produce actionable threat intelligence for X-Force clients.

Rene Martinez

Rene has over 18 years of experience in Software development with IBM, with his current focus on assisting X-Force intelligence analysts in cyber threat investigations, incident response support, and automating content distribution to clients. Rene has designed, implemented and deployed a catalog of cloud applications that include Dark Web and GitHub monitoring, Mitre ATT&CK assessments and indicator of compromise lookups.

Jeff Kuo

With 18 years of experience, Jeff analyzes publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, providing value-add descriptions for clients and calculating a CVSS score based on X-Force’s understanding of the threat. Jeff’s work helps clients understand the severity of vulnerabilities so they can develop an effective patch management posture.

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Threat Intelligence Index 2024

Understand how threat actors are waging attacks, and how to proactively protect your organization.

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Cloud Threat Landscape 2023

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