IBM introduced new agentic AI and automation capabilities aimed at enabling autonomous security operations and predictive threat intelligence for clients. The company launched the Autonomous Threat Operations Machine (ATOM), an AI system that autonomously handles threat triage, investigation, and remediation with minimal human involvement. IBM also announced the new X-Force Predictive Threat Intelligence (PTI) agent for ATOM, which uses industry-specific AI foundation models to forecast adversarial activities and reduce manual threat hunting.

ATOM integrates with IBM's Threat Detection and Response services and augments existing security analytics tools by automating enrichment, contextualization, risk analysis, and response planning, allowing human analysts to focus on high-priority threats. ATOM is vendor-agnostic and compatible with platforms like Google Cloud and Microsoft.

PTI combines AI and expert human analysis to predict emerging threats based on adversary behavior, pulling from over 100 sources including IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence. It delivers tailored intelligence reports and proactive threat hunt queries, aiming to detect threats before they escalate.

IBM showcased these new capabilities at the RSAC 2025 Conference in San Francisco.