Cyberthreat Management Services

Predict, prevent and respond to modern threats, increasing business resilience

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IBM and Anthropic: Securing Critical Infrastructure
IBM is collaborating with Anthropic as a member of Project Glasswing to help defend critical infrastructures across the globe.
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Protection throughout the entire threat lifecycle

Your organization needs to protect critical assets and manage the full threat lifecycle—from proactive defense to detection and response. An intelligent, integrated unified cyberthreat management solution can help you keep defenses sharp, detect advanced threats, quickly respond with accuracy and recover from disruptions.

IBM Cyberthreat Management Services is composed of our elite team of hackers, researchers, analysts and incident responders under IBM X-Force® and our threat detection and response services. These services include our global team of security analysts that provide always-available monitoring, analysis and response of security alerts from all relevant technologies across our client’s hybrid cloud environments.

These services are delivered through IBM’s state-of-the-art security services platform, the X-Force Protection Platform, which applies multiple layers of AI and contextual threat intelligence from IBM’s vast global security network. This approach helps automate away the noise while quickly responding to the threats that matter most.

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Capabilities
Threat detection and response services

Focus on the threats that matter with always-availble prevention, AI-powered detection and fast response.

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Incident response (IR) services 

Help your organization improve its incident response (IR) program and minimize the impact of a breach.

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Threat intelligence services  

Global security intelligence experts with industry-leading analysis to help you identify and anticipate the latest threats.

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Exposure management services

Adopt a vulnerability management program that identifies, prioritizes and manages the remediation of flaws that can expose your most-critical assets.

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Penetration testing services  

Penetration testing for your applications, networks, hardware and personnel to uncover and fix vulnerabilities that expose your most important assets to attack.

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Operational technology services

Comprehensive security services for operational technology with our team of experts who understand the unique needs of OT environments and can provide tailored solutions to address these challenges.

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Use cases

Secure infrastructure and applications

Realize end-to-end threat management for increasing threat vectors across operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).

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Proactive security to stay ahead of threats

Commit to proactive security to intelligently anticipate and respond to threats with expertise enabled by AI and automation.

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Reduced risk exposure

Perform routine testing and prioritize vulnerability remediation efforts with support from expert insights and AI.

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Strategic partnerships

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Amazon Web Services

IBM Cyberthreat Management Services seamlessly integrate data and analytics from the Amazon Security Lake platform. This approach enables the consolidation of data from diverse sources into a dedicated data lake to detect and respond to threats across hybrid cloud.

Case studies

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New cyberthreats demand new approaches at Doosan
Doosan Digital Innovation (DDI) moves to a more proactive, globally aware security posture with the help of IBM Cyberthreat Management Services.
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Reducing risk at Unisys
Unisys uses X-Force Red's Penetration Testing Services to help reduce the risk of a compromise and stay ahead of the attackers.
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Insights

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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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X-Force research hub
The latest X-Force research is all in one place featuring new blogs every week.
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Security operations center (SOC) locations
See a list of our global and regional delivery locations across the world.
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X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report 2026
Understand how threat actors are waging attacks, and how to proactively protect your organization.

Related services

Managed security services

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

Threat detection and response services

Your partner against cyberthreats with always available prevention and faster, AI-powered detection and response.

IBM Autonomous Security

Proactive defense through AI-driven autonomous operations.

X-Force

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

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