World Wide Technology Launches ‘Defending at the Speed of AI’ Initiative with Horizon3.ai, Empirical Security, Infoblox, and Cognition

Joint program with Horizon3.ai, Empirical Security, Infoblox, and Cognition delivers integrated cybersecurity solution for AI-era threats

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider, today announced the launch of “Defending at the Speed of AI,” a global cybersecurity initiative WWT developed in collaboration with Horizon3.ai, Empirical Security, Infoblox, and Cognition. The integrated program, available in WWT's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) and Cyber Range, operates at machine speed to address a critical gap in modern security infrastructure: the accelerating pace of AI-powered cyberattacks.

Frontier AI models have rewritten the adversary playbook. Vulnerabilities are now discovered in hours, not weeks; phishing and social engineering are generated at scale and at native fluency; and multi-stage intrusions can be orchestrated with minimal human oversight. Traditional security stacks designed for human-paced attackers were not built for this reality, creating a major blind spot for enterprises.

"The window between disclosure and exploitation has collapsed," said Chris Konrad, Vice President, Global Cyber at WWT. "By combining continuous autonomous testing, risk prioritization, upstream threat prevention, and AI-accelerated remediation, ‘Defending at the Speed of AI’ enables organizations to detect, prioritize and respond to threats at the pace of an AI-enabled adversary."

Each partner brings a distinct capability to the joint stack:

Horizon3.ai — Prove: Production-safe, continuous and autonomous testing of defenses at the speed of AI finds and prioritizes what attackers can exploit, replacing assumption-based security with evidence.

"Attackers are no longer human-paced. Neither are we. Horizon3’s NodeZero platform is critical security infrastructure for the AI era that runs continuous testing against our customers' environments to prove exploitability the moment it appears, closing the gap that AI-powered adversaries are racing to widen. Joining WWT's ‘Defending at the Speed of AI’ initiative puts that capability in front of the enterprises that need it most,” said Snehal Antani, CEO at Horizon3.ai.

Empirical Security — Prioritize: Risk intelligence ranks exposures by real-world exploitability and business impact, so teams fix what matters first.

"Vulnerability volume is no longer the problem; vulnerability signal is. In an AI-accelerated threat environment, fixing the wrong thing is the same as fixing nothing. We are proud to work alongside WWT to give defenders the clarity to act on what truly puts the business at risk,” said Ed Bellis, CEO at Empirical Security.

Infoblox — Prevent: Protective Domain Name System (DNS) stops threats upstream of the endpoint, including AI-generated malicious domains, phishing infrastructure, and command-and-control traffic.

"AI lets adversaries spin up malicious infrastructure faster than any human security operations center (SOC) can chase. DNS is where we get ahead of it. Working with WWT and this group of partners, we are giving customers a preventive layer that scales with the threat — not behind it,” said Scott Harrell, CEO at Infoblox.

Cognition — Propel: Devin, Cognition’s autonomous AI software engineer, generates patches, hardens code, and clears remediation backlogs at machine speed.

"Finding and prioritizing vulnerabilities leaves the hardest part undone: someone has to write the fix. Devin does that work, generating patches and clearing remediation backlogs as fast as findings come in. We're proud to bring that to WWT's customers as part of this initiative,” said Gardner Johnson, VP of Global Partnerships at Cognition.

Together, these four capabilities close the loop a modern defender needs, continuously proving what's truly exploitable, prioritizing what matters, preventing what's avoidable, and producing fixes faster than attackers can move.

Customers can test, validate, and operationalize the integrated stack through WWT's ATC and Cyber Range, staging the joint solution against AI-driven attack scenarios before deploying in production. WWT will wrap the offering in advisory, integration, and managed services so enterprises at any stage of maturity can adopt it. Learn more about “Defending at the Speed of AI” and WWT’s cybersecurity solutions at https://www.wwt.com/category/security/overview.

About World Wide Technology

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