{"id":1010973,"date":"2026-05-30T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010973"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:40:05","slug":"ibms-5-billion-bet-on-ai-cybersecurity-project-ceo-says-mythos-was-the-triggering-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/ibms-5-billion-bet-on-ai-cybersecurity-project-ceo-says-mythos-was-the-triggering-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s $5 billion bet on AI cybersecurity project, CEO says Mythos was the \u2018triggering factor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after Google made headlines with its Threat Defense AI cybersecurity tool, IBM stepped into the global digital infrastructure space with a massive investment of $5 billion cybersecurity initiative. Called the \u2018Project Lightwell\u2019, the project is essentially a push to secure global digital infrastructure against rapidly escalating threats from AI. <\/p>\n<p>Project Lightwell is a massive undertaking designed to safeguard open-source software from highly advanced, AI-driven cyber threats capable of automated vulnerability exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after Google made headlines with its Threat Defense AI cybersecurity tool, IBM stepped into the global digital infrastructure space with a massive investment of $5 billion cybersecurity initiative. Called the \u2018Project Lightwell\u2019, the project is essentially a push to secure global digital infrastructure against rapidly escalating threats from AI. Project Lightwell is a massive undertaking designed to safeguard open-source software from highly advanced, AI-driven cyber threats capable of automated vulnerability exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011000,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010973\/revisions\/1011000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}