IBM is introducing new cybersecurity measures designed to help organizations counter a new generation of cyber threats from weaponized frontier AI models.
Attackers are already using frontier AI models to accelerate every phase of the attack lifecycle. These models represent a step change in offensive capability, which can dramatically lower the time, cost, and expertise required to carry out sophisticated attacks and push organizations toward continuous business disruption, according to IBM.
To address this challenge, IBM Consulting is offering a new cybersecurity assessment to help enterprises evaluate their readiness for agentic enabled threats. The assessment will be delivered by IBM together with its technology partners to help customers get the support they need across their environments, the company said.
The assessment provides deep visibility into security gaps, policy weaknesses, AI-specific exposures, and potential exploit paths. It also delivers prioritized mitigation guidance, including interim safeguards where no immediate software fix exists.
In addition, the assessment highlights opportunities for enterprises to accelerate their detection and response through improved automation and architectural alignment.
Recognizing that enterprises must now match the speed and sophistication of AI-generated attacks, IBM is also launching IBM Autonomous Security—a multi-agent-powered service designed to deliver coordinated decision making, response, and intelligence at machine speed.
IBM Autonomous Security brings together interoperable, vendor-agnostic digital workers that operate across an organization's full security stack, enabling security programs to act as a system rather than a collection of disconnected tools. The service is designed to fundamentally rearchitect how security programs operate as threats become increasingly autonomous and self-optimizing, said IBM.
Using coordinated AI agents, the service analyzes software exposures and runtime environments to understand exploit paths, improve hygiene, enforce security policies across the applicable security tools, detect anomalies, and contain threats with minimal human intervention.
By extending security into identity, risk, and governance functions and connecting with AI systems across IT, OT, and business processes, IBM Autonomous Security helps organizations transform detection to remediation, strengthen compliance outcomes, reduce operational friction, and improve resiliency.
"Frontier models are creating a new category of enterprise threat that is fast moving, systemic and increasingly autonomous," said Mark Hughes, global managing partner of cybersecurity services, IBM Consulting. "Meeting that threat requires a systemic defense. AI powered offense demands AI powered defense. That's what IBM is delivering."
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