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IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Services  

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

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Understand how threat actors think, strategize and strike

IBM X-Force® Threat Intelligence uses a team of world-class intelligence analysts to help organizations understand how the threat landscape is changing and the latest techniques that threat actors employ. These analysts mine insights from malware reverse engineering, dark web research and vulnerability tracking to help you better secure your environments.

With a deep understanding of how threat actors think, strategize and strike, X-Force Threat Intelligence can help you prevent, detect, respond to and recover from incidents and focus on business priorities.

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Capabilities
Cyber exposure insights

Enable continuous discovery to manage your cyber exposure across the surface, deep and dark web. Incorporate both internal and third-party sources.

Malware reverse engineering

Explore an in-depth description of how the malware functions, indicators of compromise, payloads, mutexes and processes.

Strategic threat assessment

Examine threat attackers likely to target your organization, including their infection vectors, techniques and procedures.

Use cases

Enrich your threat analysis

Aggregate your threat detection and response by using threat group profiles, malware analysis reports, malware detection rules and threat activity insights extracted from near real-time threat intelligence.

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Optimize threat intelligence detection and sharing

Automate threat intelligence from internal and external data sources through a system of security tool integrations and open source intelligence (OSINT) feeds to help your team detect and share threat data faster.

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Combine expertise with threat intelligence solutions

Simplify threat intelligence management with help from security professionals who can design, build and operate an automated cyberthreat platform that delivers up-to-the-minute threat data to stay ahead of attacks.

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Insights

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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.
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Research hub
Leverage educational content like blogs, articles, videos, courses, reports and more, crafted by IBM experts, on emerging security and identity technologies.
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Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
The report reveals that 97% of organizations that experienced an AI-related security incident lacked proper access controls.
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Don't let security complexity hold you back
IBM and Palo Alto Networks IBV study reveals how a platform approach can simplify security and enable your organization to experience better ROI.

Meet our experts

Robert Gates
Cyberthreat Intelligence Services Lead
Chris Caridi
Chris Caridi
Strategic Threat Analysis Lead
Melissa Frydrych-Dean
Melissa Frydrych-Dean
Adversary Investigations & Analysis
Kevin Henson
Malware Reverse Engineering Lead
Rene Martinez
X-Force Threat Intelligence Development Senior Architect
Jeff Kuo
Vulnerability Intelligence Threat Analyst

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