Atos partners with Palo Alto Networks to launch UK frontier-AI cybersecurity partnership

London, United Kingdom – 29 October 2026 – Atos, a global leader in AI-powered digital transformation, today announced an expanded UK partnership with Palo Alto Networks to help organisations understand and address their exposure to frontier AI- enabled threats. The offering identifies mission-critical vulnerabilities, prioritises the actions needed to address them and combines advanced platforms and technologies with sovereign engineering capabilities to proactively mitigate threats at machine speed.

The offering delivers an outcome-based approach focusing on three key areas:

• Proactive identification of mission-critical exposure to frontier AI threats, powered by Palo Alto Networks exposure assessment capabilities. This gives customers a clear understanding of how and where they may be targeted, together with practical steps to mitigate risks to their critical systems and services.
• Atos’ advanced vulnerability management approach prioritises the absolute business-relevant fix first needs, using AI enrichment that cross-references every finding against asset criticality, real-world exploitability, ownership, and organisational context.
• A frontier AI-ready SOC, SOAR and MXDR capability, hosted in Atos’ sovereign UK data centres and delivered exclusively from the UK. Combining Atos expertise with the Palo Alto Networks Cortex platform and adjacent capabilities, it provides customers with market-leading managed detection and response, delivering continuous, real-time protection against AI-enabled threats at machine speed.

 

Patricia Murphy, vice president of EMEA Ecosystems, Strategic Alliances and Channel, Palo Alto Networks, said, “The attack cycle has compressed with the time from initial access to data exfiltration collapsing to minutes. Machine- speed mean time to respond is no longer an ambitious goal, it is a requirement. To outsmart AI-based exploits, enterprises must decisively address vulnerabilities across their code and stand up the right security stack to enable real-time, automated defenses. This is a moment that calls for radical collaboration across the entire security ecosystem, so we’re pleased to work alongside Atos who will join us in delivering AI readiness at scale.”

Atos operationalises these capabilities from sovereign UK infrastructure, with security- cleared personnel and human-in-the-loop governance. AI handles detection and triage at machine speed; human analysts retain governance, escalation authority, and strategic risk assessment.

Terry Bebbington, head of cyber, Atos UK&I, said, "UK organisations have a real challenge in front of them to address the new risks and opportunities AI frontier models bring to them. Our unique set of frontier AI enabled offerings provide any organisation with a way forward that has been tried and tested.”

“Our partnership with Palo Alto Networks combines decades of UK security experience with AI-powered modelling and threat detection alongside truly sovereign delivered cyber services. This enables organisations to confidently defend against evolving threats whilst meeting their sovereignty and compliance obligations.”

With sovereignty now a boardroom issue, organisations must demonstrate to regulators, shareholders, and government that their security operations are sovereign. Customer data remains in their environment, monitored by cleared UK personnel using AI-powered security orchestration, with no offshore dependencies.

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About Atos

Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.

With more than 51,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand.

A trusted partner in operating complex and mission-critical environments, Atos supports organizations across highly regulated and sovereign contexts.

About Atos Group

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 53,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris.

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