World Wide Technology Launches ‘Defending at the Speed of AI’ Initiative with Horizon3.ai, Empirical Security, Infoblox, and Cognition
Publish Date: 2026-06-16 10:00:00
Source Domain: www.businesswire.com
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…
