Horizon3 Earns Cyber Essentials Certification Covering NodeZero EU Network

Certification provides a defined security baseline for the network supporting Horizon3’s EU data sovereignty site in Germany

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Horizon3, the AI-Native Proactive Security Company, today announced that it has earned Cyber Essentials Plus certification covering its NodeZero AWS EU network. The network supports Horizon3’s EU data sovereignty site in Germany.

Organizations use NodeZero® to test production environments and find weaknesses attackers can exploit. When customers and partners assess the platform itself, they also need to understand the security standards applied to its supporting infrastructure. The Cyber Essentials certificate identifies a defined portion of that infrastructure and the baseline against which it was assessed.

Developed by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, Cyber Essentials addresses five foundational controls: firewalls, secure configuration, security updates, user access control, and malware protection. Certification is based on an organizational self-assessment reviewed by an assessor.

“Supporting the UK’s most sensitive workloads requires us to meet the standards that matter to UK cyber defenders,” said Snehal Antani, CEO and co-founder of Horizon3. “Earning the right to support the UK’s most sensitive workloads is critical to our sovereign cyber strategy, and Cyber Essentials Plus is the next milestone in our journey.”

Achievement of UK Cyber Essentials Demonstrates:

• Independently assessed and verified Information Security Controls
• Proactive protection against common attack vectors
• Assurance for UK customers, and assistance in meeting their own security obligations
• Horizon3’s ongoing commitment to improving its information security posture and service delivery

Horizon3’s EU site is a distinct NodeZero deployment in Germany. Through NodeZero, customers can autonomously test their environments, see how weaknesses combine into attack paths, prioritize fixes based on demonstrated impact, and verify that remediation worked. The certification adds information about the security baseline of the AWS EU network supporting that service.

The certificate was issued to Horizon3.ai, Inc. on September 22, 2026, and is valid through September 22, 2027. Its partial-organization scope includes the NodeZero AWS EU network and employee home networks. Other NodeZero deployments and customer-deployed NodeZero Host nodes are outside its scope.

About Horizon3

Horizon3, the AI-Native Proactive Security Company behind NodeZero®, shifts the advantage from attackers to defenders by giving organizations the power to fight AI with AI. NodeZero, the World’s Best AI Hacker™, autonomously tests defenses at machine speed, safely uncovers and prioritizes exploitable attack paths, instantly verifies fixes, and drives a continuous hack, fix, verify loop. More than 7,000 organizations, including global defense agencies, Fortune 10 enterprises, multinational banks, and major healthcare providers, trust Horizon3 for security they can prove. Horizon3 was recently named the Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Company in North America by the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and named one of the Most Innovative companies by Fast Company in 2026. Follow Horizon3 on LinkedIn and X.