IBM Announces New Cybersecurity Measures to Help Enterprises Confront Agentic Attacks

• New IBM cybersecurity assessment helps enterprises identify and measure new risks introduced by frontier AI models capable of vulnerability discovery and autonomous attacks

• IBM Autonomous Security, a new machine speed service composed of IBM AI agents, helps automate vulnerability remediation at a pace humans alone cannot sustain

ARMONK, N.Y., April 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new cybersecurity measures designed to help organizations counter a new generation of cyber threats as attackers begin weaponizing 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. As attacks move at machine speed,…