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Cybersecurity

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Cyber Resilience. Delivered

AI is changing the security equation—accelerating threats and expanding risk across identities, cloud, data and AI systems. Cognizant helps you strengthen cyber defense and secure AI, so you can scale autonomy with trust.

<h3>Security has entered a new era</h3> <p><span class="text-primary">AI increases speed and scale—for business and for adversaries. At the same time, fragmented tools and siloed signals slow decisions and make it harder to demonstrate compliance. A modern security program needs consolidated visibility, contextual prioritization and continuous improvement across the full digital fabric.</span></p>

AI accelerated threats

Tool sprawl & alert noise

Expanded attack surface

Proof driven compliance

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<h3>Securing the AI powered enterprise requires a dual mandate</h3>

AI driven defense

Use AI to improve detection, triage and response—reducing dwell time and operational drag.

Security for AI

Secure AI models, pipelines and agents, so innovation scales with integrity.

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Dual mandate

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<h3>Cognizant Managed Cybersecurity</h3> <h5>An AI orchestrated, managed cyber defense service — powered by Neuro® Cybersecurity</h5>

<p>Cognizant Managed Cybersecurity unifies detection, response, and risk across your digital estate through a single, intelligent security fabric. Powered by Neuro® Cybersecurity, it integrates threat intelligence, workload security, vulnerability management, and risk visibility—reducing complexity and enabling faster, coordinated action.</p> <p><b>Key benefits</b></p> <ul> <li>Unified, AI orchestrated defence across cloud, network, endpoints, and workloads</li> <li>Proactive detection and coordinated response through integrated intelligence and workflows </li> <li>Predictable cost with flexible pricing and no CapEx</li> <li>24×7 managed operations with outcome driven visibility for security and risk leaders </li> </ul>

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<h3>Our approach</h3>

Consolidated visibility

Contextual prioritization

Continuous improvement

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Approach

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<h3>Our methodology</h3>

Assess: Establish posture and exposure baselines

Architect: Design the target state and controls blueprint

Act: Run operations to detect, respond and remediate

Assure: Prove compliance and improve outcomes continuously

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<h3>Offerings</h3> <p>Cognizant’s end to end cybersecurity services help you modernize defense, strengthen resilience and secure AI systems through modular capabilities that scale with your needs.</p>

Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)

Digitize oversight, automate controls and drive risk informed decisions with audit ready evidence.

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Data security and privacy

Protect sensitive data across environments with policy driven governance and privacy controls.

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Identity & access management

Modernize identity with adaptive controls that strengthen access governance and improve visibility across users and devices.

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Cloud, infra and network security

Redesign security for cloud and hybrid environments with unified policy, real time defense and scalable architectures.

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Incident management and response

Strengthen response readiness and reduce impact through coordinated incident handling and containment.

Threat & vulnerability management

Maximize visibility, prioritize risk and remediate faster with continuous, integrated threat and vulnerability practices.

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Security for AI

Safeguard AI systems across models, pipelines and runtime—integrating security and governance from build time to production.

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<h3>Featured work</h3>

CONSUMER GOODS

Zero‑trust security transformation at global scale

A Fortune 500 consumer goods company modernized global access for 41K users across 180 countries, replacing VPNs and ensuring with zero trust—driving 30% operational efficiencies and reducing total cost of ownership by 20%.

RETAIL

Automated GRC delivering 70%+ efficiency gains

A global retail leader automated enterprise risk management through an integrated GRC platform, delivering 70%+ efficiency gains, 100% centralized audit visibility, and 30%+ cost optimization by eliminating manual processes.

MEDIA

85% faster provisioning for 250K identities

A global media and technology leader modernized identity governance for 250,000 identities, delivering 85% faster provisioning, securing 215,000+ network devices, and achieving $190K in annual cost savings.

LIFESCIENCES

10× faster threat detection with AI‑driven SOC

A biopharmaceutical company transformed SOC operations with an AI‑driven platform processing 8 TB of logs daily for 30,000 users—delivering 10× faster threat detection and reducing alert noise by 60%.

HEALTHCARE

A global clinical development provider secured sensitive research data in a multi‑cloud environment, achieving 100% HIPAA and GDPR compliance, 99.9% SLA adherence, and closing 99%+ of security alerts.

LIFE SCIENCES

Cloud Security compliance and Ops for 10M cloud assets

A global life sciences organization secured its multi‑cloud environment, achieving 94% security compliance across regulatory frameworks, unified visibility across 10M cloud assets, and identifying 1.9M vulnerabilities.

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<h3>Latest thinking</h3>

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Three ways AI will reshape cybersecurity in 2026

As AI accelerates cybersecurity attacks, here’s what security leaders need to do to protect the enterprise.

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Safe autonomy, provable trust: Securing AI

Security for AI must be designed into the full lifecycle, not bolted on as an afterthought.

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Mythos exposed cybersecurity flaws. Here's how to respond

The potent AI forces the cybersecurity community to face unpleasant truths about patching and the vulnerability backlog

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The time has come to address the post-quantum security threat

Traditional encryption methods are at risk of being broken by quantum computers.

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Securing Life Sciences in the Agentic Era

Cyber Resilience and AI Defence for Pharma

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<h3>Our strategic partners</h3>

<p>We partner with leading hyperscalers and security providers to co engineer integrated security outcomes—reducing complexity and accelerating time to value.</p>

<h3>Our partners hold us to the highest standards</h3> <p>They know what quality looks like. We’re proud to be recognized by our peers for delivering to the highest industry standards.</p>

Zscaler’s

Americas Zero Trust Partner of the Year

2025

Palo Alto Networks

Cortex XSIAM Select Specialization

Palo Alto Networks

MSSP Innovator Partner Status

Rubrik

Recognized as Managed Services Leader of the Year

Fortinet

Norwegian GSI Partner of the Year

2025

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Take the first step

Serving customers by looking forward as well as back is a big promise, but the power of today’s new digital capabilities is vast and growing.

Let’s talk about how digital can work for your business.

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