Threat sharing isn’t new; cybercriminals have been doing it for decades. Now the good guys are getting organized too: IBM X-Force is launching a new cloud-based threat intelligence platform, IBM X-Force Exchange, to help encourage and facilitate the sharing of threat intelligence while addressing the principles of open, social and actionable sharing. Try the platform at http://bit.ly/1IrvwLu.

1. The New Face
of Organized Crime
80%
Hackers are no longer lone wolves. They’re now banding together to run fewer—yet
much larger—attacks, similar to the traditional crime rings of the 20th century.
of cyber-attacks are driven
by organized crime rings,
in which data, tools, and
expertise are widely shared.1
Organized cybercrime is the
most profitable type of crime.
Average loss per
individual burglary
in the U.S.2
The largest bank
robbery in U.S. history.3
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1
UNODC Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime, 2013
2
FBI: Crime in the United States 2013
3
United California Bank Robbery
4
Center for Strategic and International Studies
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Accurate representation is 1,548 times the stacks pictured.
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ESG: http://bit.ly/1xzTmUW
Hackers have organized. The good guys
have not.
65%of in-house security teams
rely on multiple sources of
untrusted external intelligence.6
Annual cost of cybercrime
to the global economy.4
$2,300 $30,000,000 $445 Billion
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