Threat Mitigation Products - End-to-end risk management solutions to protect against the latest threats while reducing the costs and complexity of security

IBM Security Threat Mitigation products are part of a robust portfolio of security solutions from IBM. Through world-class solutions that address risk across each aspect of your business, IBM can help you build a strong security posture that helps to reduce costs, improve service, and manage risk in your dynamic infrastructure, helping you cost-effectively embrace change and innovation without compromising security.

Reducing the cost and complexity of security without compromise

Today's business reality means that you must manage more risks with fewer resources. You have to:

• Cut your operational expenses
• Manage increasing risks
• Maintain your compliance posture
• Improve service
• Enable innovation

IBM's framework-based security offerings provide the solutions and expertise you need to confidently:

• Mitigate, monitor and manage the latest security threats and vulnerabilities
• Lower the costs of applying the latest security expertise, processes and technologies
• Lower costs of limiting internal access to, and external release of, sensitive data
• Identify and mitigate the risks of regulatory noncompliance
• Lower the costs of identity and access management
• Mitigate the increasing risks from application-level vulnerabilities

Research => Technology => Solutions

The IBM X-Force® Research and Development team delivers increased operational efficiencies by helping to build integrated technologies that feature "baked-in" simplification. The X-Force team underpins the IBM Security Threat Mitigation products platform and is the catalyst for continuous security innovation.

The X-Force team uses its broad and holistic intelligence infrastructure to provide one of the most accurate views of the current and emerging threat landscape.

IBM uses this information to define the important and pressing security problems of today and tomorrow. IBM then focuses on solving these problems with new technology and solutions in our products and services

The X-Force team studies the latest threat trends including vulnerabilities, exploits and active attacks, viruses, malware, spam, phishing, and malicious web content. The X-Force team also publishes several publicly available reports every year:

The Trend and Risk Report is published twice yearly. This report provides statistical information about all aspects of threats that affect Internet security, including software vulnerabilities and public exploitation, malware, spam, phishing, web-based threats, and general cyber criminal activity.

The Threat Insight Report is published four times a year. This report is designed to highlight some of the most significant threats and challenges security professionals face every day.

In addition to advising customers and the general public on how to respond to emerging and critical threats, The X-Force team also delivers security content that protects IBM Security Solutions customers from these threats.