The year 2022 was another tumultuous one for cybersecurity. While there was no shortage of contributing events, among the most significant were the continuing effects of the pandemic and the eruption of the military conflict in Ukraine. Disruption made 2022 a year of economic, geopolitical and human upheaval and cost—creating exactly the kind of chaos in which cybercriminals thrive. And thrive they did.
IBM Security X-Force® witnessed opportunistic threat actors who capitalize on disorder, using the landscape to their advantage to infiltrate governments and organizations across the globe.
The IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 tracks new and existing trends and attack patterns and includes billions of datapoints ranging from network and endpoint devices, incident response (IR) engagements, vulnerability and exploit databases and more. This report is a comprehensive collection of their research data from January to December 2022. They provide these findings as a resource to IBM clients, cybersecurity researchers, policymakers, the media and the larger community of security industry professionals and industry leaders. Today’s volatile landscape, with its increasingly sophisticated and malicious threats, requires a collaborative effort to protect business and citizens. More than ever, you need to be armed with threat intelligence and security insights to stay ahead of attackers and fortify your critical assets. So you too can thrive.
IBM X-Force Exchange is a threat intelligence sharing platform that you can use to research security threats, to aggregate intelligence, and to collaborate with peers. Logged in users have integrated access to all the functionality of the site: searching, commenting, Collections and sharing.
