X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2026
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As attackers use AI to scale operations, security leaders must use AI to proactively secure their people, data, and infrastructure. Explore IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index to learn about the challenges and successes experienced by security teams around the world.
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Data security
Shift to proactive threat detection and response
The recent rise of autonomous security operations centers, which use agentic AI to augment the roles of security workers, can orchestrate multiple agents to work across the entire threat lifecycle—from threat hunting to remediation. That can give organizations the tools they need to detect and mitigate increasingly complex AI-generated attacks.
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Modernize identity security and threat detection
As attackers fine-tune their credential‑driven operations, security leaders must turn to AI gain visibility into identity-based risks and threats. By combining AI-powered identity threat detection and response (ITDR) and identity security posture management (ISPM), they can more quickly and efficiently identify vulnerabilities and prevent attacks from happening.
IBM Verify Identity Protection
Identity and access management services
Test and hunt
You need to know about and address vulnerabilities before attackers do. To get there, you should adopt a continuous, proactive approach to identifying weaknesses across your environment, including secure code review, weak or reused credentials, misconfigurations and dynamic testing and scanning across on‑premises and cloud environments to detect missing patches.
IBM Exposure Management Services
Prioritize AI platform security and governance
Agentic AI has introduced new risks and amplified old ones. As a result, AI needs security and governance solutions to scale with trust and transparency. Organizations should enforce strong AI authentication and access controls, protect AI service credentials and monitor for abnormal access patterns. Model governance is needed to evaluate underlying AI, test performance for bias, drift, and accuracy and safeguard against inappropriate behavior.
IBM watsonx AI risk atlas
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Adopt the right data protection controls
While data security has always been important, it gains even more importance in the AI world—discovering where the sensitive data lives, understanding how it’s used and exposed, prioritizing data risks based on context—all while meeting the stringent compliance requirements of dozens of global and regional regulatory agencies.
IBM Guardium Data Protection
Data and AI Security Services
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