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Threat detection and response services

Your partner against cyber threats with 24/7 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-agnostic threat solution that can manage any alert at any time and give 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 makes it impossible for their teams to spend time on their most critical work and  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, practice proactive security to strengthen defenses, continuously improve security operations, and protect the hybrid cloud.

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Benefits
Accelerate business transformation

Everything in your hybrid cloud environment generates data, often collected via many sources. Transform existing tools and services  into an integrated, managed 24/7 solution backed by our X-Force Protection Platform, which utilizes AI to handle up to 85% of alerts1.

 

Practice proactive security to reduce risk

Prevent vulnerabilities before they occur, understand your detection effectiveness, get personalized recommendations for how to improve your security posture and 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 as soon as they’re detected—minimizing business risk while reducing damages and interruption of services.

AI-Powered Capabilities Predictive Threat Intelligence

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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Threat Detection Insights

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

Advanced threat disposition scoring  

Mimic human reasoning to automate triage activity and detect threats faster. Use Gen AI to learn from analyst behavior & 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 & 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 & automate response actions across protection tech. Historical response behavior optimized for threat type & attack progression. Receive specific steps for faster containment, eradication, & recovery steps as well as recommendations to lower reoccurrence risk.

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Autonomous Threat Operations Machine (ATOM)

ATOM, available on IBM Consulting® Advantage, is our agentic AI system that goes beyond individual AI agents to create autonomous security operations 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 2025 with X-Force
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Armed with the insights of our X-Force 2025 Threat Intelligence Index 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.

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Threat Detection and Response Services overview
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It’s essential for organizations to defend against the expanding attack surface by shifting from reactive, signature-based threat management solutions to a proactive, intelligence-based approach that utilizes a highly skilled, dedicated security team who delivers continuous monitoring, analysis and rapid response to sophisticated attacks.

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Robert Oh Executive Vice President of Corporate Digital and Chief Operating Officer Doosan Group
Case studies
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New cyberthreats demand new approaches at Doosan Digital Innovations (DDI)
DDI hardens its security posture to enable future transformation and create a more proactive, globally-aware strategy to minimize business interruptions in the event of a cyber threat.
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Belfius gains enhanced visibility and control over their risk and security posture
By shifting to a direct managed-services relationship with IBM, Belfius tapped into advanced security capabilities augmented by AI and machine learning (ML), and it opened its core IT systems to ongoing innovation.

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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.