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According to the Cost of a Data Breach, the average cost savings of an organization that has an incident response team and proactive IR testing versus organizations with no IR team or testing is USD 1.5 million.

IBM X-Force Incident Response includes a team of experienced threat hunters, responders, and investigators who specialize in incident preparedness, detection, response, and recovery.

Our goal is to reduce the business impact of a breach and improve resiliency to attacks through planning and testing.

Detect, contain, and recover from attacks with incident response (IR) preparedness and 24×7 emergency IR services to reduce breach impacts.

Incident response and cyber crisis management
Increase preparedness with our assess, build, and test capabilities and our processes, plans, and playbooks that minimize the impact of cybersecurity incidents. Receive emergency incident response support such as forensic analysis, incident command, deep/dark web analysis, and skillful support from IBM and our strategically aligned business partners.

IR for operational technology (OT)
Everything is connected—including your factories, offices, and fleet. Ensure your incident response plans and playbooks account for OT and IoT. Assess, build, train, and test—IBM brings you a complete and comprehensive incident response program to prepare your cybersecurity and operations staff. Robust OT/IoT incident response is not just necessary—it’s paramount.

Active threat assessment
What have your existing security tools failed to alert on? An active threat assessment, alternatively referred to as a compromise assessment, can uncover undetected threats in the environment while exposing unknown areas of the network through data-driven analysis. Gain visibility into your organization’s attack surface through the identification of unauthorized activity, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and potentially unwanted applications.

Testing services for AI
Uncover and address security vulnerabilities across Foundation Models and Large Language Models (FM/LLMs), MLSecOps Pipelines, AI Platforms, and Generative AI (GenAI) applications.

Application testing
Test your mobile, web, IoT, and backend applications. X-Force Red can provide manual penetration testing, secure code review, binary analysis, and vulnerability assessments of any platform.

Network testing
Prevent opportunistic attacks with X-Force Red manual network penetration testing. Our hackers identify vulnerabilities that may lead to opportunistic attacks and testing uncovers vulnerabilities that scanners cannot, such as logic flaws, back doors, and misconfiguration.

Hardware testing
Test engineering and security from a hacker’s point of view. X-Force Red can reverse-engineer your devices to find vulnerabilities during development, assess source code and data in and out of systems, and identify vulnerabilities in product implementation and external libraries.

Social engineering
Humans can be the weakest link in your security. Determining the risks of human behavior is a key aspect of social engineering. X-Force Red engagements can include ruses attackers may use to trick your employees into divulging sensitive information.

Cloud testing
We provide cloud configuration and infrastructure review to find critical misconfigurations that can lead to privilege escalation or unauthorized access to sensitive data. X-Force Red hackers can uncover potential attack paths and insecure DevOps practices such as sharing secrets (privileged credentials, API/SSH keys, and more). They also find and fix exploitable flaws inside containers and the connected environment.

Adversary Simulation
Uncover and fix gaps in your incident response programs through red teaming, purple teaming, control testing and tuning, and threat intelligence testing exercises.

Prioritize the highest-risk vulnerabilities for remediation, using the X-Force Red team and automated ranking engine.