Destabilizing events such as the global pandemic or the war in Ukraine create opportunities for cyber criminals to thrive. Every day, new threats emerge, and at the same time, criminals find smarter routes to access your company’s assets and data. Embracing automation in cybersecurity processes can help in efficiently identifying and mitigating these evolving threats, safeguarding your organization's integrity and resilience.
Adapting in real time takes vast amounts of threat intelligence and time. IBM® X-Force® operates in over 170 countries and manages the security operations for thousands of customers. This visibility into the worldwide threat landscape, feeds the X-Force® Threat Intelligence Platform used by IBM Security® QRadar® SIEM to identify threats in your company.
How can you automatically detect the latest threats in your environment without spending hours on research?
Use global research and data from the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Platform to stay up to date on the latest trending threats and enhance your threat detection capabilities.
Advanced threat detection: Use AI-driven insights for rapid threat identification.
Threat hunting: Turn disparate threat data into real time action to uncover lurking threats.
Ransomware defense: Stay ahead of fast-moving cyberattacks with proactive measures.
Compliance assurance: Seamlessly showcase adherence to regulatory standards and internal audits.
The IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Platform included with QRadar SIEM uses aggregated X-Force® Exchange data.1 Additionally, it offers the option to integrate data from other threat intelligence feeds to provide enrichment and enhance your organization's ability to stay ahead of emerging threats and exposure to the latest vulnerabilities. These functionalities empower security analysts to bolster their organization's cybersecurity posture and proactively defend against potential breaches.
The threat intelligence platform detects events such as:
- Serial attempted logins for a dynamic range of IP addresses
- Anonymous proxy connections to a business partner portal
- Connections between an internal endpoint and known botnet command and contro
- Communication between endpoints and known malware distribution sites
- Cyber threat intelligence reports on malicious IP addresses and phishing campaigns
When assessing and categorizing incidents by risk value, it's crucial to consider the impact of false positives on the overall accuracy of the risk assessment process. Threat intelligence enables proactive identification and prioritization of new incident types in QRadar by risk value, integrating them seamlessly with other security data to swiftly mitigate potential threats. For example, you can import public collections of dangerous IP addresses from IBM X-Force Exchange and then create a rule to raise the magnitude of any offense that includes IP addresses from that watch list.
To keep your threat intel current, regularly update your firewall configurations based on the latest threat intelligence to help ensure robust protection against evolving cyberthreats. QRadar SIEM uses the latest malicious IP addresses, URLs and malware file hashes from IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence and other threat intelligence sources so that your SIEM platform can proactively detect and mitigate the world’s latest critical and advanced threats.
The IBM Advanced Threat Protection Feed by X-Force Exchange delivers a defined set of actionable indicators for direct ingestion into security tools and solutions. You can view, search and update the feed.
STIX and TAXII are the machine-readable, easily automated communication standards used to share information about cyber threats. Structured Threat Information eXpression (STIX) defines the information included in the threat intelligence, while Trusted Automated eXchange of Intelligence Information (TAXII) defines how that information is relayed. The IBM Threat Intelligence Platform supports your company to upload and download threat information to the global networks in STIX and TAXII formats.
The exchange API, whether commercial or enterprise, allows you to collaborate with peers in a worldwide community, aggregate global research and act on threat intelligence together.
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1 Allows you to use the X-Force Threat Intelligence data in QRadar correlation rules and AQL.