NWN Corp launches AI-enabled cybersecurity platform with Arctic Wolf, Cisco and Palo Alto

NWN launches cybersecurity platform with Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and Arctic Wolf integrations - SiliconANGLE

NWN launches cybersecurity platform with Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and Arctic Wolf integrations Technology solutions provider NWN Corp. today announced the launch of NWN Cybersecurity, an artificial intelligence-enabled managed security operations suite. The new offering introduces new managed services, expands strategic security partnerships and delivers new platform integrations to help organizations modernize security operations and drive innovation in the AI era. As cyberthreats accelerate and AI adoption expands the attack surface, many organizations face an operational reality: Security platforms have modernized faster than security operations. NWN argues that tools generate alerts, dashboards generate noise and teams struggle to convert insight into action, especially across hybrid environments, distributed workforces and complex compliance mandates. NWN Cybersecurity is designed to to deal with the issue by moving industry-leading security platforms into a single, accountable managed service model delivered with 24×7 expertise and unified operational control via NWN Experience Management Platform. The new service launches with three core areas. The first, new managed service, includes managed detection, offensive security services, ransomware protection and "vCISO Consulting," with all designed to operationalize today's security platforms into a single, accountable service model. The combination is focused on helping organizations reduce tool sprawl, accelerate response and strengthen resilience. Expanded partnerships sees NWN achieving Top National Partner Status with Cisco Systems Inc., Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. and Palo Alto Networks Inc. to bring leading security and observability capabilities from the three companies into a managed services model for NWN customers. The third area, new Experience Management Platform integrations, sees the introduction of integrations that centralize visibility, monitoring and workflows, including Palo Alto Prisma Access monitoring and roadmap integrations aligned to Cisco Splunk observability and Arctic Wolf Aurora. The NWM Experience Management Platform is at the core of the new offering. It provides a unified platform for AI-powered managed services with full visibility, centralized control and co-managed operations. EMP leverages automation and proactive monitoring to reduce resolution times and improve operational efficiency, allowing for a more scalable model for managed security operations. "Security leaders are being asked to defend more surface area, respond faster and manage more tools -- often with fewer resources," said Chief Technology Officer Dean Fernandes. "NWN Cybersecurity is built for real-world operations. By combining modern security platforms with EMP-driven operational control, we help customers reduce alert noise, improve response and modernize security without taking on unnecessary risk."

NWN Adds Managed Security Services With MDR Partnership, Penetration Testing, vCISO

The solution provider says its NWN Cybersecurity offering combines new in-house managed security services with MDR (managed detection and response) delivered through a partnership with Arctic Wolf. NWN announced the launch Wednesday of a suite of managed security services with the debut of its new NWN Cybersecurity offering, which aims to boost cyber defense for staff-constrained customers through human expertise and AI augmentation, NWN executives told CRN. The Boston-based company, No. 59 on CRN's 2025 Solution Provider 500, said that its NWN Cybersecurity offering combines new in-house managed security services such as penetration testing and vCISO with MDR (managed detection and response) delivered through a partnership with Arctic Wolf. [Related: Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider On Delivering 'Superior' Security With New Agentic SOC Platform] With the NWN Cybersecurity offering, "now you have full-stack managed services, along with a managed security player, all embedded into one pane of glass," NWN CEO Jim Sullivan said. "It addresses safer environments for customers -- whether it's on-prem or in the cloud, across multiple domains, along with multiple different security solutions that we're integrating to." The debut of the offering follows the announcement in late March at RSAC 2026 that NWN had been chosen as a launch partner for Arctic Wolf's new Aurora Superintelligence Platform, which leverages the vendor's vast dataset and deploys swarms of AI agents to handle key security operations tasks. The MDR offering delivered to customers through NWN's partnership with Arctic Wolf will provide 24/7 agentic-enhanced protection to customers including continuous detection, mitigation and resolution of threats and attacks, according to NWN. Ultimately, NWN Cybersecurity will deliver "a full, end-to-end security solution that's all now integrated natively to security vendors like Arctic Wolf," Sullivan said. Other key vendor partnerships that are helping to drive the NWN Cybersecurity offering include major longtime NWN partner Cisco Systems along with cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks, which has been an NWN partner for more than three years, according to the company. Key enhancements for NWN's Experience Management Platform include that the platform is now "integrating deeper into Palo [Alto Networks], Cisco and Arctic Wolf and adding AI capabilities in security -- specifically with our environment and Arctic Wolf's new platform," Sullivan said. Meanwhile, as part of the NWN Cybersecurity launch, the company is unveiling a "fully managed penetration testing as-a-service platform that's ours that we're deploying. And we have ransomware protection as-a-service, which is built in-house here," said NWN CMO Andrew Gilman. Additionally, NWN's new vCISO service comprises "new strategic security consulting capabilities -- where we can come in and help our customers, and augment their leadership capabilities in the CISO realm -- to really prepare for what's next while continuing to help them operate at scale," Gilman said. The cybersecurity expansion for NWN comes as the solution provider has already been doubling its security business during each of the past three years, according to Sullivan. In other words, NWN has seen "great progress" in its delivery of cyber defense solutions even prior to the launch of NWN Cybersecurity, and that should only accelerate going forward, he said. "Part of that [traction] is the market growth -- but we're growing dramatically faster at security than the marketplace is," Sullivan said. All in all, with NWN doubling down on cybersecurity with the debut of its new offering, "we're getting closer with our clients to wrap all these solutions together so you can have a fully managed IT environment, inclusive of all the [necessary] security," he said. The introduction of NWN Cybersecurity also follows the recent launch of the solution provider's Intelligent Connectivity offering. The Network as a Service offering stitches together HPE Mist and NWN's Experience Management Platform into a single operating model, according to the company.