Threat Detection
The introduction of generative AI capabilities to IBM’s managed Threat Detection and Response Services, which are used by IBM Consulting analysts to improve and expedite security operations for clients, was announced today by IBM (NYSE: IBM). The new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to expedite and enhance the identification, investigation, and response to significant security threats. It is built on IBM’s Watsonx data and AI platform.
Control any alarm at any moment
Cyberattacks are faster, more creative, and more common than before. In order to counter them, you need a cooperative partner that can function as an extension of your team to increase output while safeguarding your current assets. With a worldwide, end-to-end, vendor-neutral threat solution that can handle any warning at any time and provide you with the insight and integration you need to maximise your security program, they can help your company lower its cyber risk.
Many organisations have an excessive number of instruments that provide large amounts of information, but not enough resources. Their teams are unable to dedicate enough time to their most important tasks as a result, which raises expenses, causes inefficiencies, wears out alerts, and severely reduces visibility into probable vulnerabilities.
IBM Threat Detection and Response (TDR) services, which also include Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services, assist your company in implementing proactive security to fortify defences, continuously enhancing security operations, safeguarding the hybrid cloud, and protecting current investments while enhancing them with AI.
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Advantages
Quicken the process of business transformation
Everything in your hybrid cloud system produces data, which is frequently gathered from a variety of sources. Convert current resources into a controlled, integrated solution that operates around-the-clock and is supported by IBM X-Force Protection Platform, which uses AI to handle up to 85% of warnings.
Reduce risk by using proactive security measures
Get personalised advice on how to boost your security posture, stop vulnerabilities before they arise, and collaborate with their expert team of hackers, responders, and researchers, X-Force, to bolster defences.
Always strive to enhance security operations
In order to ensure that threats are managed and remedied as soon as they are recognised, minimising business risk while limiting damages and service interruption, increase capabilities to get deep visibility and stimulate collaboration.
Threats to IBM
AI-Powered Functionalities
BRILLANT
Consider things from the adversary’s point of view and draw conclusions. Analyse attacker tools and behaviours using Gen AI to identify missed attack avenues and direct testers. Analyse control efficacy and MTTR to guide future security expenditures.
Utilising Threat Intelligence in Practice
Use carefully chosen and forecasted threat intelligence to proactively mitigate attacks. To proactively prevent assaults and priorities remediation efforts, use Gen AI to connect threat behaviour with environmental context, curate threat intelligence, automate searches, and provide risk assessments.
Views on Threat Detection
Use MITRE ATT&CK and AI-driven insights to optimise detection posture. To maximise detection coverage and close important gaps, apply Gen AI. Connect detections to MITRE ATT&CK, use AI-driven insights to optimise the detection stack, and automate reporting and management for hybrid and multi cloud security solutions.
Sophisticated threat assessment and rating
Automate triage processes and identify hazards more quickly by modelling human thinking. Utilise Gen AI to automate threat alert dispositioning and learn from analyst behaviour. Prioritise critical alerts, generate comprehensible insights, automate low-risk issues, and spot unusual occurrences.
Assistant for Cybersecurity – Threat Analysis
To expedite investigations, produce attack insights and cross-correlate activity. Utilise Gen AI to expedite case compilation and streamline the investigative workflow. Cross-correlate warnings, make contextual understanding easier, and aid in the creation of hypotheses to aid in analyst decision-making.
Assistant for Cybersecurity – Threat Reaction
Construct composable playbooks dynamically to automate remediation. Utilise Gen AI to automate and suggest response actions for various protection technologies. Past reaction patterns tailored to the nature of the threat and the evolution of the attack. Get detailed instructions for quicker containment, eradication, and recovery processes in addition to suggestions to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
The Cybersecurity Assistant will be a part of IBM Consulting Advantage, the AI services platform with purpose-built AI assets created to enable IBM consultants to deliver value for clients with consistency, repeatability, quality, and speed, in addition to being a part of IBM Consulting’s Threats to IBM and response practice.
According to Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner of Cybersecurity Services, IBM Consulting, “security teams are facing the enduring challenge of too many attacks and not enough time or people to defend against them as cyber incidents evolve from immediate crises to multi-dimensional and months-long events.” “By enhancing IBM Threat Detection and Response services with generative AI, IBM is reduce manual security analysts’ operational and investigative responsibilities, enabling them to react more quickly and accurately to serious threats and enhancing clients’ overall security posture.”
Up to 85% of alerts can be automatically escalated or closed by IBM’s Threat Detection and Response (TDR) Services. The investigation of the remaining alarms that need to be addressed can now be accelerated by IBM’s global security experts by integrating new generative AI technologies with pre-existing AI and automation capabilities. For one client, in particular, the enhanced capabilities resulted in a 48% reduction in alert investigation times. The following are the benefits of the new Cybersecurity Assistant
Historical correlation analysis speeds threat investigations and remediation
Through the use of historical correlation analysis of comparable threats, the Cybersecurity Assistant is intended to expedite complex threat investigations. The new feature, which is integrated into IBM’s TDR Services, provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to threat management by cross-correlating alerts and improving insights from SIEM, network, EDR, vulnerability, and telemetry.
Security analysts will be better able to identify patterns of past, client-specific threat activity and take more preemptive and accurate action. Analysts will have access to a timeline view of attack sequences to aid in their understanding of important threats and to add further context to investigations.
In addition, the assistant will automatically suggest actions based on pre-established confidence levels and past patterns of activity analysis, which will expedite client reaction times and lessen attacker dwell time. Over time, it is anticipated that the Cybersecurity Assistant‘s speed and accuracy would increase since it can learn from investigations in a constant manner.
A smart conversational engine streamlined operations
A generative AI conversational engine built within the Cybersecurity Assistant offers clients and IBM security analysts real-time insights and assistance with operational chores. Apart from attending to requests like opening or summarizing tickets, the conversational feature has the ability to automatically initiate pertinent operations such as query execution, log retrieval, command clarifications, or threat intelligence enrichment. The TDR Service can assist clients decrease noise and increase overall SOC performance by providing explanations for complicated security events and orders.
Businesses may benefit from technology that continuously learns from actions done inside their particular environment and receive a new degree of insight into important threats thanks to IBM’s developments in managed security services. According to Craig Robinson, a research vice president for IDC’s Security Services Research Practice, “this helps drive a cycle of increasingly accurate and fast threat investigations, which is especially crucial today as businesses face a shortage of security resources and an abundance of security risks and vulnerabilities.”
The new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant was developed in partnership with IBM Research and makes use of the company’s wider generative AI capabilities. It is based on the Granite foundation models from the company, has been optimised for production within IBM watsonx, and integrates IBM watsonx Assistant for its conversational chat interface.
