Autonomous Threat Operations Machine (ATOM)

Create an autonomous security operations center (SOC) by using agentic AI

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Agentic AI-powered autonomous security

Generative AI (gen AI) is fueling a second security arms race with faster, tailored and more complex attacks. Human defenders alone can’t win this race. This new approach is why we’ve established ATOM, the AI-powered orchestration engine that powers our Threat Detection and Response Services.

ATOM, available on IBM Consulting® Advantage, is our agentic AI system that goes beyond individual AI agents to create autonomous security operations. It works by orchestrating multiple agents to interact and collaborate with each other across the entire threat lifecycle. It automates threat hunting, accelerates threat detection, creates and runs investigation plans and performs remediation steps. ATOM does the orchestrating so security teams can focus on high-risk threats rather than false positives or low-risk threats.

Capabilities
Drive higher value work

85% automation of L1 activity.1 ATOM drives enterprise productivity by unifying and intelligently managing digital labor, streamlining processes, automating tasks and enhancing collaboration.

Find and confirm threats faster

ATOM’s predictive threat intelligence contextualizes threats to your environment, enabling proactive threat mitigation and reducing speed to detection.

Improve system effectiveness

Reduce noisy alerts by up to 45%.2 ATOM operationalizes the MITRE ATT&CK framework for comprehensive threat visibility and continuous posture optimization.

Use cases

Gen AI-powered threat intelligence for faster risk mitigation

Proactively mitigate threats with autonomous 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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Optimize threat detection with gen AI and MITRE ATT&CK analysis

Maximize detection posture with AI-driven insights and MITRE ATT&CK analysis. Use gen AI to optimize detection coverage and address critical gaps. Automate management and reporting across hybrid multicloud security tools.

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Accelerate detection with human‑like AI reasoning

Mimic human reasoning, accelerating threat detection through automated triage and alert dispositioning. Use gen AI to learn from analyst behavior and automate low-risk incidents, produce explainable insights, prioritize important alerts and identify rare events.

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Accelerate threat investigations with gen AI intelligence

Accelerate and automate threat investigations. Use gen AI to generate insights, cross-correlate activity and alerts, simplify context and support analyst decision-making with hypothesis generation, streamlining investigation workflow and case assembly time.

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Automated remediation with AI‑driven playbooks

Automate remediation with composable playbooks. Use gen AI to recommend and automate response actions, optimize historical response behavior, receive risk reoccurrence recommendations along with specific steps for containment, eradication and recovery.

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Strategic partnerships

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Microsoft

Empower your security operations with seamless AI integration. IBM Consulting and Microsoft collaborate to help clients modernize security operations and protect against threats.

Insights

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Capturing the cybersecurity dividend
How security platforms generate business value. An IBV study in partnership with Palo Alto Networks.
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X-Force® Threat Intelligence Index report 2026
Understand how threat actors wage attacks and how to proactively protect your organization.
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Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
Attackers are targeting AI and 97% of organizations that had an AI-related data breach lacked proper access controls.
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How agentic AI enables an autonomous SOC with minimal human involvement
As AI continues to evolve, we look forward to a future where our SOCs are not just automated but truly autonomous.

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