IBM X-Force Premier Threat Intelligence Meets OpenCTI Platform

Expanding the OpenCTI Ecosystem with Industry-Leading Threat Intelligence

We’re excited to announce a significant enhancement to the OpenCTI platform: IBM X-Force Premier Threat Intelligence is now available as a dedicated connector for OpenCTI. This integration brings together IBM X-Force’s world-class threat intelligence with Filigran’s powerful open-source threat intelligence platform, OpenCTI.

Bridging Intelligence and Action

Security teams face two critical challenges: accessing high-quality threat intelligence and efficiently operationalizing that intelligence. The new IBM X-Force connector for OpenCTI addresses both challenges by seamlessly importing IBM X-Force’s comprehensive threat data directly into the OpenCTI platform, where it can be structured, contextualized, analyzed, and integrated into security workflows.

IBM X-Force: Elite Threat Intelligence

IBM X-Force is a team of hackers, responders, researchers, and analysts that monitors and analyzes the evolving global threat landscape. X-Force Premier Threat Intelligence offers valuable insight into the latest threat information, providing organizations with actionable advice to reduce business risk.

With a comprehensive approach that considers the entire attack chain, from planning to execution, X-Force helps identify potential vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by criminals. By leveraging the latest threat information from X-Force investigations and research , security operations, analysts, and executive leadership gain access to curated global threat intelligence offering insights into threat actor campaigns, malware, threat groups, and industries.

The IBM X-Force Premier Threat Intelligence connector for OpenCTI enables organizations to access:

• Threat Activity: Discovered activity from incident response investigations, IBM X-Force telemetry, open sources, and other collection methods
• Malware Analysis: In-depth descriptions of malware functions, indicators of compromise, payloads, mutexes, and processes
• Threat Group Profiling: Latest information about cyberthreat groups including typical targets, history, tactics, techniques and procedures, common attack vectors, and top malware
• Industry Analysis: Executive-level baseline of threats to specific industries and future landscape projections
• OSINT Advisories: Automatically collected open-source threat reports with extracted IOCs mapped to MITRE ATT&CK TTPs and Mitigations
• Vulnerability Intelligence: Comprehensive vulnerability identifiers, correlated with trusted sources like National Security Standards, CVE, CVSS, CWE, CPE, and CISA KEV.

OpenCTI: Transforming Intelligence into Action

OpenCTI has rapidly emerged as one of the fastest-growing Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP), helping organizations maximize the return on their threat intelligence investments. As an open-source platform, OpenCTI has gained substantial adoption among enterprises and government agencies for its ability to structure, organize, automate, and disseminate threat intelligence while supporting associated workflows.

The integration with IBM X-Force Premier Threat Intelligence unlocks the full potential of OpenCTI’s capabilities:

• Interactive Knowledge Graphs: Visualize complex relationships between threats, actors, tools, and techniques
• Automated Analysis: Process and correlate threat data at scale
• Contextual Enrichment: Enhance threat data with additional context from multiple sources
• Customizable Dashboards: Create tailored views of the threat landscape relevant to your organization
• Workflow Automation: Streamline intelligence processing and dissemination
• API-Driven Integration: Connect with security tools and platforms for operational use

“This technical integration represents a significant advancement for threat intelligence practitioners,” says Jan Johansen, SVP Global Alliances at Filigran. “By bringing IBM X-Force intelligence into OpenCTI, we’re enabling security teams to work more efficiently with some of the industry’s most valuable threat data. The combination of elite intelligence and powerful visualization creates a compelling solution for organizations seeking to strengthen their security posture.”

Empowering Security Teams

Thanks to this strategic integration, customers of IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence can now easily adopt OpenCTI to better visualize, operationalize, and disseminate this leading threat intelligence data. The powerful combination enables IBM customers to transform their premium threat intelligence into structured, actionable insights through OpenCTI’s comprehensive visualization capabilities and automation features, significantly enhancing detection, analysis, and response workflows within a unified platform.

Security professionals using this integrated solution can:

• Reduce analysis time through automated intelligence processing
• Improve detection accuracy with enriched, contextualized threat data
• Enhance threat hunting with comprehensive relationship mapping
• Streamline reporting through customizable dashboards and exports
• Accelerate response by connecting intelligence to security controls

Conclusion

Together, this technical integration enables organizations to better understand their threat landscape, enhance their protection through current threat intelligence, and respond effectively to emerging threats. This powerful combination positions organizations to stay ahead of cybercriminals while maximizing the value of their security investments.

For IBM X-Force customers looking to enhance their threat intelligence capabilities, OpenCTI offers a powerful platform for visualization, analysis, and operationalization. For OpenCTI users, this connector provides access to industry-leading threat intelligence to strengthen your security operations.

Take the next step in strengthening your threat intelligence operations. Contact our team today to schedule a demonstration and see this powerful integration in action.

Learn More

• See the latest IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Blog and OpenCTI announcement
• To learn more about OpenCTI, visit filigran.io/solutions/open-cti
• To access the IBM X-Force OpenCTI connector, visit our GitHub repository for technical documentation and installation guides
• For a 30-day IBM X-Force Premier Threat Intelligence trial, sign up here
• For technical support or community discussions, join our Slack community