NTT DATA named Palo Alto Networks 2026 North America Frontier AI Partner of the Year

NTT DATA has been named the Palo Alto Networks 2026 North America Frontier AI Partner of the Year.

The award recognizes the work our teams are doing with Palo Alto Networks to help organizations navigate one of the most significant technology shifts of our time: the move toward AI-powered enterprises.

AI’s expanding operational and security demands

AI creates extraordinary opportunities for organizations, but it also introduces new security, governance and operational challenges.

The same frontier AI models driving innovation are also being weaponized by adversaries, collapsing the time from emerging threat to active attack from days and weeks to seconds and minutes. Organizations must innovate at speed while safeguarding their data, applications, infrastructure, and AI models and agents against threats that move at machine speed.

To help you assess your vulnerabilities against AI-driven threats, we combine AI-powered cybersecurity innovation by Palo Alto Networks with our own consulting, engineering, AI governance and managed services expertise — including joint work with the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42® threat-intelligence team. Then we deliver the solutions and technologies you need to keep operating securely.

Being recognized as North America Frontier AI Partner of the Year strengthens our commitment to helping you navigate this new threat landscape as you move from AI ambition to secure, enterprise-scale adoption.

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We’re delivering integrated cyberdefense at enterprise scale

This award comes at an exciting moment in our partnership. NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks recently announced a new multiyear global strategic alliance.

Through joint engineering, co-innovation and coordinated global delivery, we’re building solutions in key transformation areas including autonomous security operations centers, AI governance, identity security, zero trust and secure access service edge (SASE), resilient cloud and firewall modernization.

Our collaboration is supported by more than 2,000 Palo Alto Networks-certified NTT DATA professionals, alongside dedicated engineering resources and NTT DATA’s global cybersecurity organization.

Together, we’re helping you put AI to work at scale without compromising the security it depends on.

Richard Garratt
Managing Director: Technology Solutions Secure Networking, North America, at NTT DATA