A IBM launched a new cybersecurity tool powered by Generative AI, designed to enhance managed threat detection and response services.
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O IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant aims to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation and response to critical security threats for customers.
Built on IBM's Watsonx data and AI platform, the assistant will be incorporated into IBM Consulting's threat detection and response practice, as well as its AI services platform, IBM Consulting Advantage.
“As cyber incidents evolve from immediate crises to multi-dimensional, months-long events, security teams face the ongoing challenge of too many attacks and not enough time or people to defend against them,” said Mark Hughes, global cybersecurity services partner at IBM Consulting.
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The IBM Cybersecurity Assistant can autonomously perform tasks such as opening or summarizing tickets, running queries, extracting logs, explaining commands, and enriching threat intelligence.
Developed using IBM's Granite line of base models, with Watsonx Assistant providing the conversational chat interface, the assistant provides real-time insights into operational tasks in a conversational style for IBM customers and security analysts.
The AI-powered assistant can analyze historical correlations to automatically recommend actions to speed up threat investigations. It can also create a chronological view of attack sequences to help analysts better understand critical threats and provide more context to investigations.
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The tool can continually learn from investigations, allowing its speed and accuracy to improve over time.
The wizard is offered as part of IBM Threat Detection and Response Services, which the company claims can automatically handle up to 85% of alerts. By adding generative AI offerings as your new assistant feature, IBM says users can speed up investigation of remaining alerts that require action.
The company said the new tool helped an unnamed customer reduce alert investigation times by 48%.
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“By enhancing our threat detection and response services with generative AI, we can reduce manual investigations and operational tasks for security analysts, empowering them to respond more proactively and accurately to critical threats and helping improve posture overall security for customers,” said Hughes.
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