World Wide Technology Achieves Cisco Secure AI Infrastructure Specialization in the U.S.

Latest recognition reinforces WWT’s role in helping customers build and secure AI infrastructure with full-stack innovation

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider, today announced it has earned the Cisco Secure AI Infrastructure Specialization in the United States. This achievement marks WWT's third major Cisco recognition in 2026, following its recognition as a Cisco Global Partner and earning the Cisco Secure Networking Specialization earlier this year. WWT is the only Cisco Global Partner to have earned both the Secure Networking and Secure AI Infrastructure Specializations in the U.S., underscoring the company’s breadth of expertise across the full-stack, spanning networking, security, data center solutions and AI software.

The Secure AI Infrastructure Specialization is one of Cisco’s new next-generation specializations, reserved for Cisco Preferred Partners with demonstrated expertise in designing, deploying and supporting secure AI infrastructure built on Cisco’s industry-leading portfolio. To earn the specialization, WWT, in the U.S., completed a rigorous audit validating its people, processes and tools to deliver real customer outcomes as organizations move from AI experimentation to production at scale.

For WWT, this achievement contributes to a broader AI strategy, including work already underway with the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, an enterprise architecture combining scalable AI infrastructure with agent operations, observability and security that WWT helps operationalize for customers moving AI workloads into production. It also aligns to the goal of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), where WWT’s AI Proving Ground lets customers evaluate NVIDIA accelerated computing, storage and networking configurations before deployment, and the Cyber Range gives teams hands-on experience securing AI environments before those risks show up in production.

“Organizations deploying AI need partners that can bring together infrastructure, networking, security, observability and operations into a single, trusted architecture,” said Joe Koenig, President, WWT. “Earning Cisco's Secure AI Infrastructure Specialization validates the investments we've made across our engineering talent, innovation platforms and partner ecosystems to help customers move AI from experimentation to secure production. WWT is proud to be the only Cisco partner to achieve the full set of these new distinctions.”

“Customers are looking for trusted partners that can help them navigate the complexity of deploying AI securely and at scale,” said Elisabeth De Dobbeleer, SVP, Global Partner Program GTM at Cisco. “WWT's achievement of the Cisco Secure AI Infrastructure Specialization demonstrates the technical expertise, operational excellence and customer focus required to help organizations build the secure AI foundations needed for long-term success.”

The recognition reinforces years of work helping WWT clients operationalize secure AI environments through a broad technology ecosystem. This includes aligning Cisco's end-to-end AI security portfolio with all seven domains of ARMOR (AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience), WWT’s vendor-agnostic AI security framework. ARMOR's development has been shaped by critical feedback from early adopters, helping refine the strategic domain coverage and direction. Together, the domains provide customers with a practical framework for integrating governance, risk, compliance, model protection, infrastructure security, secure operations and data protection into a single, actionable structure.

WWT’s Cisco partnership spans more than three decades with continued investment in the people, labs and processes needed to help customers navigate increasingly complex, AI-driven environments. To learn more about WWT’s Cisco practice, visit wwt.com/partner/cisco.

About World Wide Technology

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology solutions provider helping organizations make a new world happen by turning ambition into real-world outcomes. Founded in 1990, WWT brings together strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class technology partnerships to help public- and private-sector organizations design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC), a collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software, WWT enables clients and partners to conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology and then deploy solutions at scale using its global integration and distribution capabilities. With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations worldwide, WWT's culture— grounded in core values and leadership philosophies— has been recognized by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all. WWT provides products and services to large enterprise, global service provider and public sector clients in up to 130 countries across six continents. Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company, supports commercial and SMB markets in the U.S. and Canada.