What's New

MAY 2026

  • WWT/Horizon3 Mythos Readiness Assessment

Technology Overview

Horizon3.ai is the AI-native proactive security company behind NodeZero®, the world's most experienced AI hacker. NodeZero autonomously tests an organization's defenses the same way a real attacker would, safely identifying exploitable attack paths across internal networks, external attack surfaces, cloud environments, identity systems, and web applications. The platform addresses a critical challenge facing enterprise security teams: most organizations know they have vulnerabilities, but few can determine which weaknesses can actually be exploited to reach critical systems or sensitive data. NodeZero helps organizations move beyond vulnerability visibility and focus on what matters most by validating real-world risk through production-safe offensive security testing.

Unlike vulnerability scanners, posture management tools, and traditional penetration tests that provide limited visibility or point-in-time assessments, NodeZero continuously evaluates security posture through autonomous attack execution. The platform safely chains together vulnerabilities, credential exposures, identity weaknesses, misconfigurations, and cloud risks to demonstrate how an attacker could achieve their objectives. It then enables organizations to confirm that remediation efforts were successful through on-demand retesting. This "hack, fix, verify, and repeat on-demand" approach helps security teams prioritize the issues that matter most, accelerate remediation, and continuously measure risk reduction.

WWT should lead with Horizon3.ai because NodeZero helps customers validate whether security architectures, cloud initiatives, identity programs, and technology investments perform as expected under real-world attack conditions. This aligns naturally with the mission of WWT's Advanced Technology Center (ATC), where customers design, evaluate, test, and prove solutions before deploying them at scale. By incorporating NodeZero into ATC engagements, WWT can help clients validate cyber resilience, identify security gaps, and reduce risk across complex hybrid environments while supporting broader cloud, AI, and digital transformation initiatives.

Horizon3.ai employs multiple forms of artificial intelligence to autonomously discover, prioritize, and validate exploitable attack paths. Rather than relying on a single model or chatbot interface, NodeZero combines several AI techniques within a controlled decision framework designed for offensive security operations. This enables the platform to adapt to changing environments, make informed decisions during assessments, and deliver explainable, repeatable results.

AI technologies used within the platform include:

  • Graph-Based Reasoning – NodeZero builds a Cyber Terrain Map of the environment and uses graph reasoning to understand relationships, evaluate attack options, and identify the most effective paths to critical assets.
  • Machine Learning (ML) – Classical machine learning helps classify files, behaviors, and other security-relevant information that supports risk prioritization and target identification.
  • Generative AI / Large Language Models (LLMs) – Scoped GenAI capabilities support advanced use cases such as High Value Targeting, Advanced Data Pilfering, executive risk narratives, web application logic analysis, and contextual reasoning.
  • Autonomous Decision Framework – These capabilities work together to enable production-safe offensive security testing while maintaining control, repeatability, and explainability throughout the assessment process.

Message Overview

The strategic partnership between World Wide Technology (WWT) and Horizon3.ai focuses on delivering "Security You Can Prove". By combining WWT's deep strategic advisory, architectural expertise, and implementation capabilities with Horizon3.ai's autonomous offensive security platform, NodeZero, we empower global enterprises to validate their resilience against autonomous, machine-speed threats. Together, we transition security teams from a passive, compliance-oriented posture to an active, evidence-based readiness model built on proven control performance and validated attack paths.

WWT account teams can confidently lead with NodeZero, the world's best AI Hacker. Our Partner First methodology is architected into our DNA, ensuring that every feature development cycle prioritizes partner-led services and robust margin opportunities. Because NodeZero focuses on production infrastructure it serves as a critical engine for validating and protecting their most significant capital investments. By shifting the conversation from simple EOL hardware replacement to empirical, security-driven infrastructure optimization, WWT can drive high-value upsell and modernization campaigns based on verified risk rather than static lifecycles.

Channel Operations 

Executive Relationship Map: WWT

  • Matt Horner - Matt Hartley
  • Scot Gagnon - Matt Hartley
  • Chris Konrad - Tim Mackie / Eric Rupert
  • Chris Nicholson - Tim Mackie / Eric Rupert

Partner Fiscal Year dates:  Feb 1 - Jan 31

Direct purchasing or through Distribution: Americas - Direct

 EMEA/APAC - purchasing agreements – Direct or through distribution? Process, who are the distributors: Distribution, several Distys but for EMEA primarily Distology and for APAC - TD Synnex

 Partner Ranking – What is WWT's ranking with that partner: Silver

Approx. Number of Customers as of previous Calendar year: 2 

Approximate Number of Certifications (name/type of cert, and how many): None yet.  Certifications are conducted through our partner portal. For Silver we require 1 Technical and 2 Sales Certs

How to Register a deal: Through the Partner Portal 

How to access Partner Portal: partners.horizon3.ai - "request an account" for new user.

Main Competitor - 

  • Pentera. Laptop-based vs our Enterprise Grade SaaS Solution.

Adjacent Competitors - 

  • BAS ( Breach and Attack Simulation ) technologies that are trying to move into pentesting but started with simulation.  Cymulate, AttackIQ, etc
  • PTaaS - Pentesting as a Service - Humans on Keyboard approach to more frequent pentesting. Bishop Fox, Synack, and a host of others.  Not scaleable, uses the same contractor approach as bug bounty but for pentesting. 
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Horizon3.ai had major 2025 recognition, including ranking #121 overall and #1 in Security on the Inc. 5000, as well as #3 overall on Deloitte's 2025 Technology Fast 500. So far in 2026, Horizon3.ai has earned several notable recognitions: Fast Company named the company to its World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026 list, ranking Horizon3.ai #4 in Security and #30 overall; NodeZero achieved "Awardable" status in the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace for Government Procurement after a competitive evaluation by government, industry, and academic experts.

Horizon3.ai is a strong fit for WWT sellers who are selling into customers where resilience, uptime, and proof of security matter. Financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare are especially strong verticals because they face meaningful operational risk, growing security pressure, and a clear need to validate that controls are actually working in real-world conditions. These industries are also among our stronger-performing markets, particularly where compliance and data protection requirements increase urgency around measurable security outcomes.

  • Financial Services: a strong fit where regulatory scrutiny, sensitive data, and board-level risk visibility make proof-based security outcomes especially relevant.
  • Manufacturing: a strong fit for environments where uptime, plant operations, and distributed infrastructure make exploitable weaknesses especially costly, and where the market is large enough to support focused prospecting.
  • Healthcare: a strong fit where patient data, legacy environments, and HIPAA-driven requirements create urgency around validating real exposure and reducing risk quickly.

Horizon3.ai does not lead with professional services. Instead, our model is designed to enable partners to deliver the services layer around NodeZero. NodeZero helps customers answer a critical question: Are our controls working as expected? Since most customers have already invested heavily in security tools and programs, the real opportunity is helping them identify where those controls are falling short, prioritize what matters most, and validate that remediation efforts are working. That creates strong partner-led services opportunities across assessment, validation, remediation planning, control optimization, and ongoing security program support.

Enterprise organizations operating large, complex environments. These customers typically have broad attack surfaces, multiple security and infrastructure investments, and a need to validate whether those controls are performing as expected across hybrid environments. Enterprise customers are especially strong targets because they have more at stake operationally, more internal complexity to secure, and a greater need for proof-based prioritization that helps security teams focus on what is actually exploitable versus what is simply visible.

  • How are you currently validating whether your security controls are actually working as expected in production?
  • When you uncover vulnerabilities today, how do you determine which ones are truly exploitable versus simply visible?
  • Across your hybrid environment, where do you have the least confidence in your ability to identify and validate real attack paths?
  • How are you measuring whether remediation efforts are actually reducing risk after fixes are made?