Global technology company International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) on Wednesday unveiled new cybersecurity capabilities aimed at helping businesses better deal with cyber attacks driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models.
This announcement includes two important contributions: cybersecurity testing under IBM Consulting, and a new platform called IBM Autonomous Security, which uses multiple AI agents to perform automatic detection and response.
Cybersecurity assessments are designed to help businesses assess their readiness for emerging “agent” threats.
It provides visibility into security gaps, policy weaknesses, AI-specific exposures, and potential exploits across complex IT environments.
It also provides guidance for reducing priorities and identifies areas where automation can improve detection and response.
Meanwhile, IBM Autonomous Security is a multi-agent service designed to run across an organization’s security stack at machine speed.
It brings together interactive AI agents that analyze software exposures and runtime environments, map potential exploits, enforce security policies, detect anomalies, and contain threats with minimal human intervention.
The information generated by the system is also fed into governance and risk programs to help improve the overall security and compliance posture.
“Advance models are creating a new class of enterprise threat that is fast-moving, organized and increasingly self-regulated,” said Mark Hughes, global managing partner of cybersecurity services at IBM Consulting, in a statement.
“Meeting that threat requires an organized defense. An AI-powered offense requires an AI-powered defense. That’s what IBM delivers,” he added.
IBM said that as attacks are increasingly moving at machine speed, traditional security systems that rely on separate tools and manual processes are becoming increasingly ineffective.
This underscores the need for independent and integrated security systems, such as IBM’s recently introduced cyber security capabilities. – Edg Adrian A. Eva
