IBM Security partnership promises to patch critical vulnerabilities 'in seconds'

An expanded partnership between endpoint security platform Carbon Black and IBM Security could help businesses patch vulnerabilities faster, the pair announced on Tuesday.

According to a spokesperson, the new offering will be able to "prevent 85% of enterprise-level hacks." The press release announcing the expanded partnership said that the solution will be able to patch critical security vulnerabilities "in seconds."

The two companies originally partnered up back in February 2016, when IBM announced that its X-Force Incident Response Services would use Carbon Black's Enterprise Response product in its operations. They also announced then that IBM's QRadar and BigFix would integrate with core Carbon Black products as well.