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IBM X-Force Red Penetration Testing Services

IBM X-Force Red Penetration Testing Services

Penetration testing for your AI models, applications, networks, hardware and personnel to uncover and fix vulnerabilities that expose your most important assets to attacks
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Identify and fix critical vulnerabilities across your enterprise

Identify and fix critical vulnerabilities across your enterprise

With expert human testers, we examine your organization's applications, networks, AI models, and hardware to understand and proactively address potential threats.

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Protect critical assets using an attacker’s mindset
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Capabilities

Capabilities

Testing services for AI

Uncover and address security vulnerabilities across Foundation Models and Large Language Models (FM/LLMs), MLSecOps Pipelines, AI Platforms, and Generative AI (GenAI) applications.

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Application testing

Test your mobile, web, IoT and backend applications. X-Force Red can provide manual penetration testing, secure code review, binary analysis and vulnerability assessments of any platforms.

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Infrastructure Testing

Prevent opportunistic attacks with network and hardware penetration tests. Our hackers identify vulnerabilities that may lead to opportunistic attacks, uncovering vulnerabilities that scanners cannot, such as logic flaws, back doors, and misconfigurations. They can reverse-engineer your devices to find vulnerabilities during development, assess source code and data in and out of systems, and identify vulnerabilities in product implementation and external libraries.

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Social engineering

Humans can be the weakest link in your security. Determining the risks of human behavior is a key aspect of social engineering. X-Force Red engagements can include ruses attackers may use to trick your employees into divulging sensitive information.

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Specialty service: Cloud testing

We provide cloud configuration and infrastructure review to find critical misconfigurations that can lead to privilege escalation or unauthorized access to sensitive data. X-Force Red hackers can uncover potential attack paths and insecure DevOps practices such as sharing secrets (privileged credentials, API/SSH keys and more). They also find and fix exploitable flaws inside containers and the connected environment.

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Threat-Led Penetration Testing

Leveraging threat intelligence to craft tailored attack scenarios, X-Force can mimic the advanced persistent threat actors targeting your organization. Uncover and fix gaps in your incident response programs while satisfying requirements for DORA TLPT, TIBER-EU, and other threat intelligence-based testing.

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X-Force Red Labs

X-Force Red Labs

Test your devices before and after they go to market.  Expert penetration testers in our global labs can tear down, reverse engineer, modify, compromise, exploit and test every aspect of your hardware to help remediate vulnerabilities throughout the development lifecycle.
Models for flexibility

Models for flexibility

Three programs to meet your needs
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Ad-hoc testing

Smaller project with explicit scope, using X-Force Red hackers, and you own the testing program.

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Subscription program

Fixed monthly costs. No charges for overtime or test changes. Unused funds carry over.

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Managed service

Predictable monthly budgets. We handle scope, schedules, testing and reporting.

Industry use cases for penetration testing

Automotive industry ATM security Industrial control systems
Automotive industry X-Force Red hackers manually test the entire vehicle system, including hardware, supplier components, integration, connected services, autonomous sensor controls and fusion subsystems. They work side-by-side with your engineers to uncover vulnerabilities that impact the safety of vehicles and reliability of the connected network.

Insights

Cut through the noise with insights on the latest in business and technology. Hear from the leaders who are driving business innovation.

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X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024

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Cost of a Data Breach 2024

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Cloud Threat Landscape 2024

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Client story

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Resources

Resources

Evolving Red Teaming for AI Environments

Learn about how red teaming is unique for AI applications and models

Definitive Guide to Ransomware

Discover the latest trends and research on ransomware.

X-Force solution brief

Learn more about X-Force, IBM’s team of hackers, researchers, analysts and incident responders

Related solutions

Related solutions

IBM X-Force Red Adversary Simulation Services

Simulating attacks to test, measure and improve risk detection and incident response

IBM X-Force Red Social Engineering Services

Put your people to the test through phishing, vishing and physical social engineering exercises

IBM X-Force Cyber Range

The elite training your business leaders need to improve your readiness to effectively respond to a breach

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