X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020

IBM Security develops intelligent enterprise security solutions and services to help your business build resilience today for the cybersecurity threats of tomorrow.

To update security professionals about the most relevant threats, IBM X-Force regularly releases blogs, white papers, webinars, and podcasts about emerging threats and attackers’ Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).

IBM Security releases the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index annually, summarizing the year past in terms of the most prominent threats raised by our various research teams to provide security teams with information that can help better secure their organizations.

Data and insights presented in this report are derived from IBM Security managed security services, incident response services, penetration testing engagements, and vulnerability management services.

IBM X-Force research teams analyze data from hundreds of millions of protected endpoints and servers, along with data derived from non-customer assets such as spam sensors and honeynets. IBM Security Research also runs spam traps around the world and monitors tens of millions of spam and phishing attacks daily, analyzing billions of web pages and images to detect attack campaigns, fraudulent activity, and brand abuse, to better protect our customers and the connected world we live in.