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Dynatrace to Acquire AI Observability Leader Arize

Bangalore, September 2026 : Acquisition will provide the industry’s mostcomprehensive AI development lifecycle solutionDynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leading AI-powered ob?ervability platform, ha? ?igned a de?nitive agreement to acquire Arize in a ca?h and ?tocktran?action valued at$915 million. Together, Dynatrace and Arize will enable cu?tomer? to evaluate, operate, and continuou?ly improve AI application? from development throughproduction at ?cale.AI Ob?ervability ?pan? the full lifecycle of an AI application, from experimentation and evaluation before relea?e, to tracing how LLM?, agent?, and orche?tration layer? behave in production. It connect? that behavior with application performance, GPU utilization, infra?tructure health, and bu?ine?? proce??e?. AI Ob?ervability deliver? the in?ight? AI engineer?, developer?, SRE?, and platform team? need to debug and optimize AI behavior and keep AI-powered ?ervice? accurate, reliable, and co?t-e?cient. It i? al?o one of the fa?te?t-growing categorie? in ob?ervability, projected to exceed $10 billion by 2030 and i? central to Dynatrace’? growth ?trategy.“AI i? now movinginto production at incredible ?peed,and the re?ulting AI Ob?ervability market opportunity i? enormou?. Dynatrace anticipate? cu?tomer?’ need? at critical in?ection point?, and thi? i? one of the mo?t ?igni?cant in our hi?tory,” ?aid Rick McConnell, CEO, Dynatrace. “Acquiring Arize advance? our AI ob?ervability leader?hip, accelerate? our roadmap, enhance? our long-term growth pro?le, expand? our reach with the developer community, and add? an incredible AI-?r?t team to Dynatrace.”Today, AI ?oftware delivery i? fragmented. AI engineering team? evaluate model and agent behavior in one ?et of tool?, whilethe team? runningthe application? and infra?tructure beneath them work in another. There i? often no ?hared ?y?tem connecting how an AI application i? evaluated to how it behave? in production, ?o when output quality ?lip? or a cu?tomer tran?action fail?, the cau?e can ?it anywhere from the prompt to the infra?tructure, and there i? little feedback to developer?. Dynatrace’? acqui?ition of Arize will eliminate that fragmentation and provide end-to-end ob?ervability from development to production.Arize i? the category leader in AI Ob?ervability, purpo?e-built for AI and agent? and tru?ted by Fortune 500 enterpri?e? and AI-native builder? alike. Arize combine? a ?trong developer brand and thriving open ?ource community with the enterpri?e-grade framework? that team? need to detect hallucination?, mea?ure output quality, and continuou?ly validate AI behavior. It i? the only platform that i? ?imultaneou?ly OSS-native and ?tack-agno?tic acro?? every major AI framework and model provider. Thi? make? Arize a clear choice for developer? acro?? the AI lifecycle.“We foundedArize becau?e AI team? neededa way to know their agent? were actually working correctly, not ju?t running,” ?aid Jason Lopatecki, CEO, Arize. “Joining Dynatrace will enable u? to take that mi??ion much further. Together, we can bring AI evaluation and ?oftware ob?ervabilityinto an end-to-end ?y?tem, enablingteam? to build more ambitiou? AI application? fa?ter. Thi? i? the kind of innovation that only happen? when two companie? with highly complementary ?olution? and go-to-market model? come together,?etting a new bar for what AI Ob?ervability can deliver for the entire indu?try.”Following the clo?ing of the propo?ed acqui?ition, Dynatrace cu?tomer? will gain:Continuou? coverage acro?? the AI lifecycle, from experimentation and deployment readine?? through runtimeevaluation and ob?ervability, with automated feedbackloop? that ?upport ongoing improvement.Uni?ed context for under?tanding AI behavior and bu?ine?? impact, connecting model and agent evaluation with application performance, infra?tructure health, and bu?ine?? outcome?.An enterpri?e data foundation for AI workload?, powered by exabyte-?cale analy?i? and AI lakehou?e capabilitie?.For developer?, the combination will deliver a direct path from experimentation to enterpri?e-grade deployment, backed by Arize’? tru?ted ?tanding in the open-?ource AI community. A? AI tooling deci?ion? increa?ingly ?tart with developer?, that tru?t open? a direct path to the ob?ervability and reliability capabilitie? that Dynatrace alreadybring? to enterpri?e cu?tomer?.Transaction DetailsThe tran?action i? expected to clo?e later thi? quarter or early in Dynatrace’? third quarter, ?ubject to regulatory review? and other cu?tomary clo?ing condition?. Under the term? of the agreement, Dynatrace will acquire Arize for $915 million, ?ubject to cu?tomary adju?tment?, con?i?ting of approximately $815 million in ca?h a? well a? replacement equityaward? for Arize employee? joining Dynatrace. Dynatrace plan? to fund the tran?action through ca?h on hand and/or it? exi?ting credit facility.Arize’? two founder?, Ja?on Lopatecki and Aparna Dhinakaran, will both join Dynatrace at clo?ing. Ja?on will continue to lead the Arize team and will report directlyto Rick McConnell.Expected Financial ImpactDynatrace expect? the tran?action to be approximately 200 ba?i? point? accretive to ARR growth and 175 ba?i? point? dilutive to Non-GAAP Operating Margin for ??cal 2027. We expect togenerate incremental operating margin expan?ion from ??cal 2027 level? into ??cal 2028 and beyond. The tran?action i? not expected to materially impact the company’? ?econd quarter ??cal 2027 guidance or it? ongoing ?hare repurcha?e program.AdvisorsJ.P. MorganSecuritie? LLC i? acting a? ?nancial advi?orto Dynatrace, and Goodwin ProcterLLP i? acting a? it? legalcoun?el. Qataly?t Partner? i? acting a? exclu?ive ?nancial advi?or to Arize and DLA Piper LLP i? acting a? it? legal coun?el.Investor Conference Call DetailsDynatrace will hold a conference call for inve?tor? and analy?t? at 8:30 a.m. Ea?tern Time on Augu?t 13, 2026 to di?cu?? the ?trategic rationale of the propo?ed acqui?ition. To acce?? the conference call from the U.S. and Canada,dial (866) 405-1247,or internationally, dial (201) 689-8045 with conference ID 13762249. The call will al?o be available live via webca?t on the company’? web?ite, ir.dynatrace.com.An audioreplay of the call will be available until 11:59 p.m. Ea?tern Time on Augu?t27, 2026 by dialing (877) 660-6853 from the U.S. or Canada,or for international caller? by dialing (201) 612-7415 and entering conference ID 13762249. In addition,an archived webca?t will be available at ir.dynatrace.com.About DynatraceDynatrace i? advancing ob?ervability for today’? digital bu?ine??e?, helping to tran?form the complexity of moderndigital eco?y?tem? into powerful bu?ine??a??et?. By leveraging AI- powered in?ight?,Dynatrace enable? organization? to analyze, automate,and innovate fa?terto drive their bu?ine?? forward. To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your bu?ine??, vi?it www.dynatrace.com, vi?it our blog and follow u? on LinkedInand X @ dynatrace.About ArizeArize i? a uni?ed AI ob?ervability and LLM evaluation platform that help? team? develop and maintain more ?ucce??ful AI. Arize’? automated monitoring and ob?ervability platform allow? team? to quickly detect i??ue? when they emerge, trouble?hoot why they happened, and improve overall performance acro?? both traditional ML and generative u?e ca?e?. Arize i? headquartered in San Franci?co, CA.Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release includes certain “forard-looking statements” ithin the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation ReformAct of 1995, including statements regarding the expectedbene?ts of the proposed acquisition, capabilities expected to be available to organizations from using Dynatrace and Arize folloingthe closing of the proposedacquisition, expected futuregroth in the AI Observability market segment and its expected size in 2030, the expected timing for closing of the proposedacquisition, Dynatrace’s plans to fund the proposed acquisition, and the expected ?nancial impact of the proposed acquisition. These forard-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and statements identi?ed by ords such as “ill,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” and ords of similar meaning.These forard-looking statements re?ect our current vies about our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies, and prospects, hich are based on the information currently available to us and on assumptions e have made. Although e believe that our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies, and prospects as re?ected in or suggested by those forard-looking statements are reasonable, ecan give no assurance that the plans, intentions, expectations, or strategies ill be attained or achieved. Actual results may differ materially from those described in the forard-looking statements and ill be affected by a variety of risks and factors that are beyond our control, including our ability to successfully complete the Arize acquisition and integrate the nely acquired business and offerings, the risks set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent QuarterlyReports on Form 10-Q, and our other SEC ?lings.We assume no obligation to update any forard-lookingstatements contained in this document because of ne information, future events, or otherise.Non-GAAP Financial MeasuresIn addition to disclosing ?nancial measures prepared in accordance ith GAAP, this press release contains a non-GAAP?nancial measure as de?ned by Regulation G, non-GAAP operating margin. We use this non-GAAP?nancial measure for ?nancial and operational decision-making purposes, and as a means to evaluateperiod-to-period comparisons and liquidity. We believe that this non-GAAP ?nancialmeasure provides useful information about our operatingresults, enhances the overall understanding of past ?nancial performance and allosfor greater transparency ith respect to metricsused by our management in its ?nancial and operational decision-making. The presentation of the non-GAAP?nancial measure is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitutefor, or superior to, the ?nancial information prepared and presented in accordance ith GAAP. Our non-GAAP?nancial measure may not provide information that is directly comparable to similarly titled metrics provided by other companies. Non-GAAP ?nancial measures and Annual Recurring Revenueare de?ned in our press release dated August 5, 2026. A reconciliation of non-GAAP operating margin guidance to the most directly comparable GAAP measure is not available ithout unreasonable efforts on a forard-looking basis due to the high variability,complexity and lo visibility ith respect to the charges excluded from this non-GAAP measure; in particular, the measures and effects of share-based compensation expense, employer taxes and tax deductions speci?c to equity compensation aards that are directly impacted by future hiring, turnover and retention needs, as ell as unpredictable ?uctuations in our stock price. We expect the variability of the above charges to have a signi?cant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our futureGAAP ?nancial results.

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Kaspersky records rising mobile malware activity across Asia-Pacific markets

Bangalore, September 2026Mobile threat activity in Asia-Pacific (APAC) is becoming more concentrated, with attackers focusing on a smaller pool of users and targeting each of them far more persistently, according to the latest data from Kaspersky. Cybercriminals are increasingly adapting their campaigns to local user behavior, popular digital services, and rapidly expanding mobile-first economies.Across eight APAC markets, the average number of mobile threat detections per affected user rose 49% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, climbing from 4.9 to 7.3. The increase was recorded in every market analyzed, even as the total number of users encountering mobile threats declined.Key findings from the first quarter of 2026:Detections per affected user rose in all eight markets analyzed, indicating more persistent targeting of individual users.Thailand recorded the sharpest concentration in Southeast Asia, with detections more than doubling to 2,494 while the number of affected users fell — lifting detections per user from 3.0 to 11.9.Sri Lanka recorded 922 detections, up 132% year-on-year, with detections per user rising from 5.5 to 17.4.Detections in the Philippines rose 28% to 2,011, and in Bangladesh 108% to 1,859.China recorded 6,797 detections, almost double the same period in 2025.China and Bangladesh were the only markets where both detections and affected users increased.India and Indonesia remain the region's largest markets by volume, with 18,187 and 15,163 detections respectively.Researchers also observed a growing volume of mobile scam activity leveraging fake promotions, phishing pages, malicious advertising, fraudulent surveys, and other social engineering techniques designed to trick users into revealing credentials or personal information. Phishing links remain one of the most common tools, luring users to fraudulent websites through fake domains, typosquatting, and convincing copies of trusted brands.Malicious links are now distributed well beyond email, through text messages, messaging apps, social media, fake job offers, cryptocurrency giveaways, and digital promotions. Messaging platforms are a growing target, with compromised accounts increasingly abused to spread malicious links that appear to come from trusted contacts. Credentials for messaging platforms and government service portals are especially prized, as access can enable identity theft, fraud, and broader compromise of victims' digital lives.Attack techniques are growing more sophisticated: some users are exposed to malicious content simply by visiting a compromised webpage, requiring little or no interaction. Multi-stage attack chains, starting with seemingly harmless files, links, or messages — continue to make threats harder to identify and block.Malware families remain active in the region as well. India continues to face the Rewardsteal Trojan, which disguises itself as reward or giveaway apps to steal sensitive data, alongside the resurgence of the Thamera Trojan, which hijacks devices to create fraudulent social media accounts at scale.Artificial intelligence (AI) is making mobile scams more convincing and harder to detect. Separate global Kaspersky consumer research into messaging-app fraud, The Great Messaging Heist, found that two-thirds of victims (66%) believe AI was used against them — most commonly in AI-written messages (42%), followed by generated or cloned voices (31%) and deepfake images or video (25%). Scammers use these tools to impersonate trusted contacts, including family members, and to pressure victims into urgent money transfers or credential disclosure. The same research found that more than half of successful scams (52%) run their course in under 30 minutes, from first contact to the point where money or personal data changes hands.“Across APAC, mobile threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with cybercriminals combining stealthy attack techniques, persistent malware and AI-powered deception to target consumers. As scams become more convincing and harder to spot, staying protected requires security that can detect threats proactively, even before users realise they are under attack,” said Choon Hong Chee, Head of Consumer Channel for APAC at Kaspersky.Kaspersky advises users to:Verify app legitimacy before downloading;Be cautious of “free reward” or “cashback” offers;Review app permissions carefully;Enable multi-factor authentication wherever possible;Carefully verify links received through messages, emails, and social media platforms;Keep operating systems and applications updated;Use trusted mobile cybersecurity solutions for continuous protection.About KasperskyKaspersky is a global cybersecurity company and digital privacy company founded in 1997. Innovating the industry with a Cyber Immunity approach, Kaspersky safeguards consumers, businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments from cyberthreats, with over a billion devices protected to date.Kaspersky ensures Cybersecurity True to Business, focusing on providing clear outcomes, protecting revenue, easing workloads and preventing downtime. Kaspersky’s deep threat intelligence and security expertise is constantly transforming into innovative solutions and services for organizations of every size, from small businesses to large enterprises, combining proven AI-driven protection technologies with simple management and expert support.Recognized in independent tests and trusted by millions of individuals worldwide and nearly 200,000 organizations, Kaspersky helps detect threats earlier, respond faster and operate with greater confidence and freedom, protecting what matters most to our clients. Learn more at www.kaspersky.com

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Cohesity Delivers New Managed Clean Room Capability to Enhance HCLTech VaultNXT

Bangalore, September 2026 : Cohesity Clean Room solution and AI-powered data security capabilities are?now fully integrated into the HCLTech VaultNXT offering to accelerate data recovery, improve regulatory compliance, and strengthen business resilienceCohesity, the leader in AI and data security,today announced the launch of a new managed clean room capability within HCLTech VaultNXT offering. Recoverability after a cyberattack is a necessity for every organisation worldwide, and a governed, documented, and repeatable model for forensic investigation, compliance support, and validated recovery is business critical. HCLTech VaultNXT answers these requirements with policy-driven cyber vaulting, immutable clean recovery copies, governed access, and audit-ready processes specifically addressing DORA, NIS2, and other?resilience and regulatory requirements.?This latest enhancement integrating the Cohesity Clean Room solution and AI-powered data security capabilities into the VaultNXT framework delivers a fully managed, isolated recovery environment with secure investigation, containment, validation, and recovery capabilities.“Cyber recovery strategies need to go beyond restoring data to include investigation, validation, and trusted recovery,”said Kit Beall, chief revenue officer, Cohesity. “With VaultNXT’s proven framework, Cohesity and HCLTech are bringing together market-leading managed clean room services and?AI-powered?data security to help our customers recover trusted data faster, support compliance requirements, reduce risk, and operate with greater confidence.”Johnny Karam, VP and Managing Director, International Emerging Region, Cohesity, said: “Cyber resilience is no longer just about protecting data or restoring systems after an incident. Organisations need to know that they can investigate what happened, validate their data, and recover with confidence while maintaining compliance and business continuity. By bringing Cohesity’s AI-powered data security and Clean Room capabilities together with HCLTech’s managed services and cyber resilience expertise, we are giving organisations a more comprehensive and repeatable approach to recovery. This partnership reflects our shared commitment to helping customers reduce risk, recover faster, and build greater resilience in an increasingly complex threat landscape.”With automated workflows,?rapid?recovery, and strong security controls,?customers can improve recovery speed and?support the continued operation of the business after an incident. HCLTech VaultNXT provides an end-to-end, consulting-led cyber resilience framework designed to assess, build, and?operate enterprise-grade ransomware recovery solutions.“VaultNXT reflects the strength of the HCLTech and Cohesity partnership in helping organisations turn?data protection?into a strategic cyber resilience asset in the AI era,” said Rampal Singh, senior vice president of the Hybrid Cloud Business Unit, HCLTech. “By combining HCLTech’s?global scale and cyber?resilience?expertise with Cohesity’s AI-powered data security and recovery, we help customers reduce downtime, stay compliant and operational, and respond faster to evolving cyber threats due to the expanding AI landscape.”About CohesityCohesity protects, secures, and provides insights into the world’s data. As the leader in AI and data security, Cohesity helps organisations strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and reduce IT costs. With Zero Trust security and advanced AI/ML, Cohesity Data Cloud is trusted by customers in more than 140 countries, including two-thirds of the Global 500. Cohesity is also backed by industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, IBM, Cisco, and HPE. Cohesity is certified as a Great Place to Work in multiple countries. Follow Cohesity on LinkedIn?and visit www.cohesity.com?to learn more.

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Sophos to bring OpenAI GPT cyber models into managed risk offering, helping defenders validate exploit paths

Bangalore, September 2026 : The company is building a new Exploit Path Verification (EPV) capability that will tell security teams which vulnerabilities an attacker can reach in their environment, turning long exposure lists into evidence-backed prioritiessophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced Exploit Path Verification (EPV), a new capability that will be built into Sophos Managed Risk to help security teams better prioritize and manage exploitable vulnerabilities in their environment. The capability will be built with OpenAI's GPT cyber models through the Daybreak Defense Network, to return verified, evidence-backed verdicts that give defenders the clarity they need to fix the exposures that matter first. Availability will be announced at a later date.Security teams face a widening gap between the vulnerabilities they can find and the ones they can fix. Scanners surface thousands of exposures and severity scores and rank them, but a severity score cannot tell whether a critical flaw sits behind a control that blocks it, or whether two low-severity findings chain into the path that leads to a breach. As a result, security teams often patch by generic score, rather than by whether an attacker could reach and use a flaw in their specific environment.Sophos is designing EPV to close that gap. It is being built to reason over asset and patch state, endpoint protection policy, network reachability, identity and privilege facts, and known exploit availability, and returns a clear evidence-backed exploitability verdict:Confirmed ExploitableBlocked by a ControlNot ReachableInsufficient EvidenceEPV will also be designed to identify chained paths where multiple lower-severity findings combine into one exploitable route, assess whether a control blocks a technique class or only a common public proof of concept, and draft remediation text ready for a ticket.The capability will be advisory and additive by design. Every verdict is labeled as AI-generated with its evidence visible, and Sophos analysts review the results.“One of the most common challenges we hear from security teams today is the volume of findings they need to sift through, and the lack of clarity of which findings matter most, or in other words, put them at greatest risk,” said John Peterson, chief technology officer, Sophos. “Exploit Path Verification is being built to make it clear what in their environment is reachable by an attacker, with the evidence to prove it, so they fix what counts first.”EPV extends Sophos' work with OpenAI. Through the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network (formerly OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program), which Sophos joined in June 2026, the company brought frontier cyber models into MDR investigation, advisory assessments, and workflows that help customers discover, validate, and remediate exposure. EPV will build on that work inside a product customers already run. OpenAI's GPT cyber models provide frontier reasoning to help assess exploitability. Sophos supplies the environment-specific evidence and product controls, and its analysts review the results delivered to customers.“Our goal through the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network is to give defenders the advantage of frontier AI, safely,” said McCall McIntyre, Head of Global Cyber Partnerships, OpenAI. “Sophos has been a thoughtful partner since joining the program, and Exploit Path Verification is a clear example of frontier reasoning applied to a real defensive problem, with the guardrails that responsible deployment demands.”Sophos defends more than 625,000 organizations worldwide, including 40,000 managed detection and response (MDR) customers across enterprise, mid-market, and commercial segments, delivered through one of the industry's largest partner ecosystems. That reach is central to EPV's purpose. Verified exploitability should not be a capability reserved for the largest security teams with the deepest budgets.EPV is in development for enterprise and mid-market business customers of Sophos Managed Risk. Sophos will announce availability, including early access and general availability timing, at a later date.For more on Sophos Managed Risk, please visit sophos.com/services/managed-risk.ABOUT SOPHOSSophos, a global cybersecurity leader, defends more than 625,000 organizations worldwide with Sophos Fusion, the industry's first and most complete AI-native cybersecurity defense system: a single, connected architecture where every control point operates as one. Powered by agentic AI and elite human expertise, Sophos detects, investigates, and neutralizes threats before they become business-disrupting events. Working alongside a global ecosystem of managed service providers, resellers, and technology partners, Sophos compounds intelligence from every threat encountered and every environment defended to make every customer's defense stronger than the last. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

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India’s enterprise AI investment surges 119% but, only 22% of Indian enterprises have the governance to match their AI ambition: ServiceNow

Bangalore, September 2026 : New ServiceNow research reveals the gap between India's rapid AI investment growth and the governance foundations enterprises need to scale AI with confidence.India is entering a defining phase of its AI journey. Enterprise AI investment grew 119% in a single year above the global average of 110%, according to the newly released ServiceNow Enterprise AI Maturity Index 2026. AI is projected to account for more than a fifth of the average IT budget by 2027.This investment momentum is being built on real national strengths: world-class digital public infrastructure, deep engineering talent and one of the fastest rates of enterprise AI adoption globally. The next phase, however, will depend less on how quickly organisations deploy AI and more on how confidently they can govern it. Today, only 22% of Indian enterprises have AI testing, auditing and risk-assessment processes in place. The gap is already visible: 54% of Indian organisations are deploying AI agents, but only 11% have moved to autonomous workflows. This shows India is moving fast, but with clear caution about where AI should be allowed to act independently. The gap between deployment and autonomy reflects the trust, risk and readiness considerations Indian business leaders are prioritising:60% cite transparency and the potential for misinformation as a top AI consideration55% point to regulatory and compliance complexity50% identify data privacy and security concernsEvery AI agent an enterprise deploys is an identity with access to data, systems and decisions. Building the governance to run these agents will shape how quickly Indian enterprises deploy more of the work that matters to AI."India has proven it can commit to AI at a scale few markets can match. The next leap will be defined by how Indian enterprises pair that ambition with governance, connected data and workflows that let AI take on more consequential work. The organisations that build these foundations first, will unlock AI's next tier of value for India," said Kulmeet Bawa, Managing Director & Group Vice President, ServiceNow India and SAARC.A national approach moving in the same directionIndia's enterprise momentum is matched by an equally purposeful national approach to AI. The country has moved early to put an enabling framework in place — from the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and the DPDP Rules, which came into force in 2025, to the AI Governance Guidelines launched at the February 2026 AI Impact Summit, the IndiaAI Mission, and the establishment of the IndiaAI Safety Institute. This approach supports innovation while building trust for enterprises, talent and consumers alike. For enterprises, aligning internal AI governance with this national direction is fast becoming a mark of readiness — and an advantage for those who move early.You cannot govern what you have not connectedAI now accounts for 16.6% of India's average IT budget, projected to rise to 21.3% by 2027, a clear signal of intent. Turning that intent into governed, dependable AI depends on the layer beneath it: today, only 18% of Indian organisations have replaced fragmented legacy systems with an integrated platform, and AI-enabled workflows scored 41 out of 100 in the study. Without connected workflows, there is no single layer through which AI can be monitored, audited or governed.The foundations Indian enterprises are working to strengthen:74% flag data accuracy, access and management as the area most in need of strengthening for AI56% point to legacy system integrationThis is a challenge shared right across India's enterprise landscape — from digital-native businesses scaling AI for exponential growth to established enterprises digitising complex, siloed operations. Both are building the same operating layer, and both stand to gain from getting it right. Closing these gaps is what will carry India's overall AI governance score, currently 55 out of 100, into the tier of the world's AI leaders.Adding his perspective to the research - Ashvin Vellody, Partner, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Deloitte India says - “AI maturity is entering a new phase in India. As organisations scale AI across the enterprise, the opportunity is moving beyond individual use cases to reimagining workflows, decision-making and operating models. That requires equal attention to the foundations that make AI scalable and trusted, including data, talent, governance and accountability.Agentic AI will accelerate this shift significantly, as AI begins to take on more complex work and operate with greater autonomy. The organisations that create sustained value will be those that make deliberate choices about where AI acts, where human judgement adds the greatest value, and how the two work together. Ultimately, AI maturity will show up in how differently an organisation works, decides and creates value.”The returns are real — and 23 points separate India from APAC's AI Pacesetters The returns are already visible. APAC Pacesetters that have built connected systems, trusted data, strong governance and enterprise-wide workflows are achieving 149% ROI on AI today — projected to reach 181% within two years. They are six times more productive than their peers, and score 78/100 on AI governance against India's 55/100."The 23-point gap between India and the world's AI leaders is not a story about falling behind — it is an instruction. Build the governance layer now, connect your data, and let AI take on the work that actually moves the business. The enterprises that act on this in the next 12 months will define India's AI decade." — Kulmeet BawaTo explore the full findings of the ServiceNow Enterprise AI Maturity Index 2026 and how Indian enterprises are building their AI foundationsAbout the StudyTo measure the current state of AI maturity in the enterprise, ServiceNow – in partnership with ThoughtLab – surveyed 4,500 senior leaders, including 350 from India. We developed a proprietary indexing model to identify how leading organisations are putting AI to work effectively. See the Singapore fact sheet here and the global report here.About ServiceNowServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is the AI control tower for business reinvention. The ServiceNow AI Platform integrates with any cloud, any model, and any data source to orchestrate how work flows across the enterprise. By unifying legacy systems, departmental tools, cloud applications, and AI agents, ServiceNow provides a single pane of glass that connects intelligence to execution across every corner of business. With more than 100 billion workflows running on the platform each year, ServiceNow helps organizations turn fragmented operations into coordinated, autonomous workflows that deliver measurable results. Learn how ServiceNow puts AI to work for people at www.servicenow.com.

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ADP Partners with AWS to Accelerate AI-Powered Innovation in Human Capital Management

Bangalore, September 2026Expanded strategic partnership combines ADP's 77 years of HR, payroll, and compliance expertise with AWS cloud and AI capabilities to help ADP clients navigate the growing complexity of workforce management in the AI era.SEATTLE, WA and ROSELAND, N.J. : Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, and ADP, a global leader in HR and payroll solutions, today announced an expanded, strategic partnership. The partnership affirms AWS as ADP’s strategic cloud provider, enabling its continued AI transformation and ongoing innovation of generative and agentic AI solutions for its more than 1.1 million clients across 140 countries and territories."ADP is setting the standard for how AI can transform human capital management at global scale," said Scott Liska, vice president at AWS. "By combining ADP's deep expertise in payroll and HR with AWS's comprehensive AI and cloud capabilities, this partnership gives companies a smarter and more efficient way to manage their people and orchestrate work across the employee lifecycle.""AI is transforming how work gets done, but it also increases the complexity of managing a global workforce. Organizations need trusted partners that can combine advanced AI with deep domain expertise,” said Sreeni Kutam, president of global product and innovation at ADP. “Through our partnership with AWS, we’re delivering faster, more intelligent innovation that helps our clients make high-stakes workforce decisions with greater confidence. By combining AI innovation with human expertise, we are creating meaningful outcomes for employees, managers, HR professionals, and payroll practitioners."The expanded partnership helps organizations navigate increasing HCM complexity with confidence. The partnership builds on years of collaboration between the two companies, including ADP’s recent work with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, a global team of strategists and scientists that helps companies design, build, and launch generative and agentic AI solutions.Key focus areas for collaboration across the two companies include:A cloud foundation for scalable AI innovation: ADP is executing a strategic platform transformation initiative on AWS. For example, by implementing agentic services like AWS Transform and AWS Kiro, ADP used AI to accelerate the manual effort of bringing thousands of key applications to the cloud, such as tax and payroll systems. With its workflows on AWS, ADP can now more rapidly deploy new AI capabilities and scale services to meet client demand, all while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance standards across geographies.ADP Assist agents: Built on AWS with Amazon Bedrock, ADP Assist is an intelligent assistant that helps HR professionals automate tedious processes, identify and correct payroll anomalies, find answers to complex questions, and generate instant reports. ADP Assist agents, built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, serve as purpose-built agents for employees, managers, and HR and payroll practitioners that think, plan, and take action under human oversight.ADP Lyric HCM: AWS cloud and AI technology powers ADP's award-winning Lyric HCM platform. With ADP Assist integrated, Lyric unifies global HR, payroll, talent, and workforce management, providing enterprise organizations with customizable workflows, real-time analytics for decision making, and personalized employee experiences. Through collaboration with AWS, ADP implemented a generative AI-driven client onboarding process that reduced certain critical steps by greater than 50%.Global Data Platform: ADP leverages AWS to optimize the industry's largest workforce dataset into an intelligence foundation that powers AI HCM capabilities, including ADP Assist and its AI agents that work across ADP’s solutions. This global data platform on AWS represents an unmatched industry dataset informed by 77 years of data and expertise spanning 42 million wage earners worldwide, providing the architecture for more personalized experiences for clients at scale, with security, privacy, and compliance embedded from the ground up.About AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS) is guided by customer obsession, pace of innovation, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. By democratizing technology for nearly two decades and making cloud computing and generative AI accessible to organizations of every size and industry, AWS has built one of the fastest-growing enterprise technology businesses in history. Millions of customers trust AWS to accelerate innovation, transform their businesses, and shape the future. With the most comprehensive AI capabilities and global infrastructure footprint, AWS empowers builders to turn big ideas into reality. Learn more at aws.amazon.com and follow @AWSNewsroom.About ADP (NASDAQ: ADP)ADP has been shaping the world of work with innovation and expertise for more than 75 years. As a global leader in HR and payroll solutions, ADP continuously works to solve business challenges for our clients and their workers, from simple, easy-to-use tools for small businesses to fully integrated platforms for global enterprises — and everything in between. Always Designing for People means we’re focused on just that – people. We use our unmatched AI-driven insights and proven expertise to design innovative solutions that help people achieve greater success at work. More than 1.1 million clients across 140+ countries rely on ADP’s exceptional service to support their people and drive their business forward. HR, Talent, Time Management, Benefits, Compliance, and Payroll. Learn more at ADP.com.

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Kaspersky detects more mobile banking Trojan packages in one quarter than in all of 2024

Bangalore, September 2026Malicious actors are concentrating their efforts on the money in people's pockets. Kaspersky detected 162,275 new mobile banking Trojan installation packages in the first quarter of 2026 — more than twice the number recorded across the whole of 2024, and roughly two-thirds of the 2025 annual total in a single quarter. Banking Trojans accounted for 52.96% of all malicious mobile applications detected in the first quarter of 2026, up from roughly 31% across 2025 as a whole.The findings, based on anonymized data from Kaspersky Security Network, reveal that attackers are intensifying efforts to exploit the growing dependence on mobile devices for shopping, entertainment, communications, and work.Among the most significant trends observed in Q1 2026:Kaspersky blocked more than 2.67 million attacks involving malware, adware and unwanted mobile software.Kaspersky detected more than 306,000 malicious installation packages in total, reaching 306,070 samples. Kaspersky identified 439 packages associated with mobile ransomware Trojans. Preinstalled backdoors embedded in device firmware during manufacturing, including Triada and Keenadu, ranked among the most frequently encountered mobile threats.These numbers demonstrate that smartphones are no longer secondary targets for cybercriminals — they are now one of the primary battlegrounds. Consumers today store personal information, passwords, private communications, photos, and work-related data on their phones, making mobile devices highly attractive targets.The findings build on a concerning trend observed throughout 2025. Over the course of last year, Kaspersky solutions blocked more than 14 million mobile attacks globally, averaging approximately 1.17 million attacks every month.“Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging sophisticated techniques to distribute malicious mobile applications through unofficial app stores, phishing links, fake giveaways, modified legitimate applications, malicious advertising campaigns, and mobile scam schemes designed to trick users into revealing sensitive information,” said Choon Hong Chee, Head of Consumer Channel for APAC at Kaspersky.Attackers are also increasingly abusing legitimate online services and trusted tools to evade detection, with many attacks now unfolding in multiple stages that begin with seemingly harmless files, links, or applications before progressing to malicious activity.Separate Kaspersky consumer research into messaging-app fraud, The Great Messaging Heist, found that a single successful scam message costs the average victim US$733. More than half of successful scams (52%) run their course in under 30 minutes from first contact to the point where money or personal data changes hands, and two-thirds of victims (66%) believe AI was used against them — most commonly in AI-written messages (42%), followed by generated or cloned voices (31%) and deepfake images or video (25%).Kaspersky recommends that users:Install applications only from trusted marketplaces;Avoid clicking suspicious links or promotional offers;Regularly update operating systems and apps;Verify requests for personal information received through messaging platforms;Use dedicated mobile security solutions to detect malicious activity in real time.As mobile devices continue to become central to digital lifestyles across Southeast Asia and globally, cybersecurity experts emphasize that mobile protection should now be viewed as a necessity rather than an optional add-on.About KasperskyKaspersky is a global cybersecurity company and digital privacy company founded in 1997. Innovating the industry with a Cyber Immunity approach, Kaspersky safeguards consumers, businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments from cyberthreats, with over a billion devices protected to date.Kaspersky ensures Cybersecurity True to Business, focusing on providing clear outcomes, protecting revenue, easing workloads and preventing downtime. Kaspersky’s deep threat intelligence and security expertise is constantly transforming into innovative solutions and services for organizations of every size, from small businesses to large enterprises, combining proven AI-driven protection technologies with simple management and expert support.Recognized in independent tests and trusted by millions of individuals worldwide and nearly 200,000 organizations, Kaspersky helps detect threats earlier, respond faster and operate with greater confidence and freedom, protecting what matters most to our clients. Learn more at www.kaspersky.com

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NETSCOUT DATA PLATFORM TRANSFORMS AI-DRIVEN NETWORK OPERATIONS AND CONTROLS COSTS

Bangalore, September 2026 : Smart Data dramatically improves MTTK and reduces AI token consumption helping organizations accelerate and control AI-driven operations as they advance toward autonomous ITNETSCOUT® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, expands its data platform to provide the trusted operational context required to build the foundation for enterprise AI. The NETSCOUT data platform observes digital interactions, converts packets into high-fidelity, compact, contextualized evidence in real time, and curates that evidence at scale for observability, service assurance, cybersecurity, and AI.This addresses a growing barrier to enterprise AI adoption: increasingly capable models still cannot deliver reliable operational decisions when the data supplied to them is incomplete, noisy, fragmented, or stripped of context. Traditional metrics, events, logs, and traces (MELT data) remain important, but often require AI systems to reconstruct what happened after telemetry has been sampled, aggregated, or separated across tools. That increases inference, compute requirements, token consumption, and the risk of an inaccurate recommendation.Gartner predicts that by 2027, organizations that prioritize semantics in AI-ready data will increase their agentic AI accuracy by up to 80% and reduce costs by up to 60%. Agentic AI outcomes depend on context, including semantic representations of data. The need for trusted context becomes even more consequential as AI agents progress from advising operators to taking autonomous action."Unlocking the benefits of AI across the enterprise will not be achieved by adding another model. It will succeed through context engineering: giving AI the right operational context before reasoning begins,” said Sanjay Munshi, chief operating officer, NETSCOUT. “NETSCOUT turns observed digital interactions into grounded-truth evidence. Through our own internal testing we experienced more than a 25% reduction in AI token consumption compared with MELT only data, and more than a 75% reduction in MTTK. Compact, context-rich operational intelligence helps our customers improve decision confidence, lower the cost of AI-driven analysis, and establish the control required to move from AIOps recommendations toward safe, autonomous operations.”Architecture Designed for the AI EraIDC expects 80% of agentic AI use cases will require real time, contextual, and widely accessible data and states that the goal is to create a trusted, real time data environment where AI can reason, decide, and act with the right context and guardrails. NETSCOUT produces Smart Data via a unique architectural approach, bringing together two complementary capabilities that improve context engineering:Early semantic extraction: NETSCOUT derives operational meaning from packets at the point of observation, preserving evidence that can disappear in conventional datasets.Context optimization at source: NETSCOUT delivers higher-density, relevant context so AI systems can spend less of their context window and compute budget.Together, these capabilities deliver an AI-ready operational evidence layer that complements existing observability investments and can support human operators, analytics platforms, large language models, copilots, and AI agents. Smart Data is embedded across NETSCOUT solutions and can be integrated into enterprise data and AI workflows, enabling customers to use the operational intelligence within their chosen technology ecosystems.Value Across the AI Maturity CurveBy meeting organizations wherever they are in their operational and AI transformation, NETSCOUT’s data platform helps customers:Operate more productively: Equip NetOps, SecOps, DevOps, SRE, and service teams with natural-language access to detailed operational evidence, accelerating investigation and helping resolve issues faster.Optimize token cost: Reduce the volume of low-value data AI must process by increasing signal density, helping organizations manage telemetry, storage, token, and compute costs without sacrificing the context required to understand service behavior.Automate with greater confidence: Provide AI systems with independently observed, explainable evidence to support recommendations, governance, auditability, and the controlled progression from assisted operations to agentic action.This common foundation provides AI systems with evidence-based operational context suitable for governed automation and agentic workflows, and supports observability, cybersecurity, service assurance, cloud and data center transformation, and business-service resilience. It can help teams and agents expose hidden dependencies, distinguish infrastructure failures from application issues, identify protocol and security exposures, and understand the operational impact of an event across hybrid, multi-cloud, containerized, virtual, and physical environments.Strategic Relevance for a Rapidly Evolving MarketAs access to AI models broadens and model capabilities converge, the quality, completeness, and token efficiency of the context supplied to those models becomes a more lasting source of differentiation. NETSCOUT extends the value of its core deep packet inspection-at-scale technology into a new growth arena: providing the trusted operational intelligence layer for enterprise AI and automation.For customers, this means a path to adopt AI without abandoning existing workflows or compromising visibility. For technology partners, it creates a source of curated, network-derived intelligence that can strengthen analytics and automation. For others, it demonstrates how NETSCOUT can apply its differentiated data foundation across observability, cybersecurity, AIOps, and AgenticOps.Resources and Attributions:Learn more about NETSCOUT’s data platform at https://www.netscout.com/platformWhat Is AI-Ready Data? And How to Get Yours There, Rita Sallam. https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/ai-ready-dataGartner Press Release, “Gartner Says Lack of Semantics Causes Inaccurate AI Agents and Wasted Spending,” May 11, 2026. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-05-11-gartner-says-lack-of-semantics-causes-inaccurate-artificial-intelligence-agents-and-wasted-spendingAI can’t run on stale data: Why enterprises are rethinking their architecture, March 24, 2026, Devin Pratt. https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/ai-cant-run-on-stale-data-why-enterprises-are-rethinking-their-architecture/About NETSCOUTNETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) protects the connected world from cyberattacks and performance and availability disruptions through its unique visibility platform and solutions powered by its pioneering deep packet inspection at scale technology. As a leading provider of network observability, AIOps, carrier service assurance, cybersecurity, and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack protection solutions, NETSCOUT serves the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and public sector organizations. Learn more at www.netscout.com or follow @NETSCOUT on LinkedIn, X, or Facebook.Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws, including statements regarding expected benefits, capabilities, adoption, and market opportunities associated with NETSCOUT's products and technologies. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements due to various important factors which are discussed in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in NETSCOUT’s most recent periodic report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and other important factors in NETSCOUT’s subsequent filings with the SEC. All information in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and NETSCOUT undertakes no obligation to update such information unless required by law. ©2026 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. All rights reserved. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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NETSCOUT EXTENDS ADAPTIVE DDOS DEFENSE PROTECTION TO ADDRESS THE RISING BUSINESS COST OF WEAPONIZED BROADBAND AND IOT DEVICES

Bangalore, August 19, 2026 : New Automated Outbound Protection Helps Service Providers ReduceNetwork Disruption, Infrastructure Costs and Internet-Wide RiskNETSCOUT® (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, today announced an extension of its Adaptive DDoS Protection (ADP) solution enabling service providers to automatically detect and mitigate outbound DDoS attack traffic. By extending protection from the attack target towards its source, NETSCOUT helps operators prevent compromised subscriber devices from disrupting their own networks, consuming costly capacity and attacking customers and organizations across the internet.Consumer broadband routers, cameras and other IoT devices are increasingly being weaponized by Turbo-Mirai class botnets capable of generating multi-terabit attacks. These outbound attacks have already caused costly service outages, reputational damage and customer loss, and damage to peering relationships risking a large increase in transit costs at service providers around the world. By detecting and mitigating malicious traffic generated by compromised device populations before it leaves their networks, service providers can reduce abuse complaints and infrastructure costs while protecting their own networks and services and helping lower subscriber churn and regulatory risk.“The combination of higher-speed broadband connectivity and vulnerable IoT devices has been weaponized by a new class of massive DDoS botnets,” said Patrick Donegan, founder and principal analyst, HardenStance. “Source-side mitigation, or attack suppression as it’s sometimes known, is a critical part of the equation. NETSCOUT’s approach, backed by its ATLAS Intelligence Feed (AIF) and ASERT analysts, gives service providers the tools they need to detect and stop attacks before they have an impact, protecting their customers and the broader internet from the large-scale DDoS attacks we have seen.”Using AI-powered threat intelligence and automated detection and mitigation, NETSCOUT’s ADP solution, an addition to its Arbor Sightline and Arbor Threat Mitigation System:Automatically detects and mitigates ever evolving attacks through dynamic detection, intelligent redirection and adaptive mitigation.Extends these capabilities to outbound traffic, combining enhanced, customized detection with comprehensive threat intelligence tailored for each ISP.Uses NETSCOUT’s proprietary AI/ML-powered DDoS detection to analyze massive volumes of outbound internet traffic to uncover attacks designed to hide within legitimate flows.Draws on unique global real-time intelligence of DDoS activity covering approximately half of all internet traffic to rapidly detect and mitigate DDoS attacks and pinpoint the responsible, compromised devices.“We are extending DDoS defense from the target to the source,” stated Darren Anstee, CTO, Security, NETSCOUT. “By using our internet-scale visibility to derive localized threat intelligence for our customers, NETSCOUT can identify and precisely suppress attacks at their origin, before they cause problems locally or at their target. This capability gives our customers a new level of comprehensive defense across their peering, transit, cloud and customer edges.”This expansion of capabilities demonstrates how NETSCOUT is applying its global threat visibility and proven ADP solution to meet emerging service provider challenges. By extending an established inbound DDoS workflow to outbound and cross-bound threats, NETSCOUT enables operators to improve network-resilience, cost-controls and revenue protection through its proven Arbor Sightline and Arbor TMS solutions.Resources:Learn more about the expanded Arbor Sightline and the Arbor Threat Mitigation System.Understand the evolving tactics of botnet-driven DDoS from the latest NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report.About NETSCOUTNETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) protects the connected world from cyberattacks and performance and availability disruptions through its unique visibility platform and solutions powered by its pioneering deep packet inspection at scale technology. As a leading provider of network observability, AIOps, carrier service assurance, cybersecurity, and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack protection solutions, NETSCOUT serves the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and public sector organizations. Learn more at www.netscout.com or follow @NETSCOUT on LinkedIn, X, or Facebook.©2026 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. All rights reserved. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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Acumatica Opens Global Capability Center in Hyderabad, India

Bangalore, August 2026 : Cloud ERP leader expands its engineering footprint to accelerate innovation for growing businessesAcumatica, a global leader in cloud-based ERP solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced the opening of its Global Capability Center (GCC) in Hyderabad, India. Located in Nanakramguda, the center opens with more than 30 employees, and more will be joining in the coming months. The GCC opening marks an important milestone in Acumatica’s international growth strategy, establishing a center of engineering excellence designed to accelerate product innovation and strengthen the company’s ability to serve customers worldwide.The Hyderabad GCC joins Acumatica's existing operations across the United States, Canada, Serbia, and Sri Lanka. Initially focused on engineering, the center also creates opportunities for Acumatica to expand into additional disciplines over time and support continued regional growth."We have created the core of our growth engine in India with an initial seed, and we look forward to it becoming a mature tree and a major contributor to the success of Acumatica customers and Acumatica itself,” said Miten Mehta, chief engineering officer of Acumatica. “India’s deep engineering talent pool, thriving technology ecosystem, and growing reputation as a destination for global innovation centers makes Hyderabad the ideal home for this next chapter of how we deliver value to small and mid-sized businesses.”The new office provides a collaborative environment where Acumatica’s India-based team can develop products and capabilities that benefit customers around the world. The new center reflects Acumatica's long-term commitment to building a diverse, globally distributed engineering organization capable of driving sustained growth and customer impact.Acumatica’s Hyderabad center is established in partnership with Summit Consulting Services, an ANSR company, recognized leaders in building and scaling GCCs. The collaboration brings structured capability design, talent strategy, and operational scaling expertise to Acumatica’s Hyderabad expansion.Acumatica is actively hiring engineering talent for the Hyderabad GCC. To explore career opportunities, visit www.acumatica.com/careers/.# # #About AcumaticaAcumatica Cloud ERP is a comprehensive business management solution that was born in the cloud and built for more connected, collaborative ways of working. Designed explicitly to enable small and mid-market companies to thrive in today’s digital economy, Acumatica’s flexible solution, customer-friendly business practices and industry-specific functionality help growing businesses adapt to fast-moving markets and take control of their future. For more information, visit acumatica.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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Mphasis Achieves EcoVadis Silver Medal, Ranking in the Top 15% of Global Companies for Sustainability

Bangalore, August 2026,Mphasis, (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS), a global AI-led, platform-driven technology solutions provider, today announced that it has been awarded the EcoVadis Silver Medal for 2026, placing the company among the top 15% of more than 130,000 companies assessed globally across 200 industries and 175 countries. The company improved its overall EcoVadis sustainability score from 55 in 2025 to 75 in 2026, a 20-point increase in just over a year, reflecting the progress it has made in strengthening its environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.The rating reflects Mphasis' continued focus on responsible governance, human rights, environmental stewardship and sustainable business practices. The company's improved performance across all four EcoVadis assessment pillars highlights the progress made in embedding sustainability across its operations and value chain.Environment: 82/100 (+34 points), revealing stronger environmental management, expanded Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reporting, measurable targets for energy, emissions and waste, and continued progress towards its commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.Labour & Human Rights: 76/100 (+21 points), indicating improvements in workplace health and safety, employee well-being, diversity and inclusion, supported by ISO 45001 certification and recognition as a Great Place to Work 2025-26.Ethics: 73/100 (+14 points), showcasing stronger anti-corruption practices, information security controls, whistleblower mechanisms and ethics awareness across the organisation.Sustainable Procurement: 67/100 (+11 points), reflecting improvements in responsible sourcing through supplier sustainability standards, ESG requirements in supplier contracts and supplier engagement programmes.“At Mphasis, sustainability is not a standalone initiative, it is embedded in how we run our business and create long-term value. This improvement in our score reflects the progress we've made integrating ESG into our strategy, operations, and culture. While we are encouraged by this achievement, we see it as one milestone in a much larger journey. We remain committed to reducing our environmental footprint, fostering an inclusive workplace, strengthening responsible governance, and working closely with our partners to build a more sustainable future," said Deepa Nagraj, Senior Vice President & Global Head - ESG, Sparkle Innovation Ecosystem, and Communications, Mphasis.The EcoVadis Silver Medal builds on Mphasis' broader sustainability agenda. The company is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), reports climate performance to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), aligns its sustainability reporting with the GRI Universal Standards, and tracks its contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Mphasis has also been recognised in the S&P Global Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) and the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2024, reinforcing its continued commitment to responsible and sustainable growth.Some of Mphasis' key ESG highlights for FY 2025 are:35.03% of Mphasis' workforce comprises women, with women representing 35.06% of STEM roles.Met 58% of its total energy requirements through renewable sources and achieved 100% wastewater recycling across its campuses.Invested INR 398.14 million in community development initiatives through its CSR programmes.Assessed 100% of new suppliers against environmental and social criteria while managing a network of more than 5,400 active vendors.Delivered an average of 31.8 hours of learning and development per employee during the year.We have large-scale ecosystem restoration projects, such as plantation of 1,00,000 trees at the Doddasagare Botanical Garden and restoration of 70 acres of mangroves.Our "One Billion Drops" initiative aims to conserve 153 million litres of rainwater by 2026 with 1,200 percolation wells.About EcoVadisEcoVadis is one of the world's most trusted providers of business sustainability ratings, with a network of over 130,000 rated companies across 200 industries and 175 countries. The Silver medal is awarded to companies scoring in the top 15% of all assessed organisations. Scorecards are valid for 12 months from the date of publication.Learn more at EcoVadis.com/suppliers About Mphasis At Mphasis, engineering has been in our DNA since inception.Mphasis is an AI-led, platform-driven company with human-in-the-loop intelligence, helping global enterprises modernize, infuse AI, and scale with agility. The Mphasis.ai unit and Mphasis AI-powered ‘Tribes’ are focused on client outcomes and embed artificial intelligence and autonomy into every layer of the enterprise technology and process stack. Mphasis built NeoIP™, a breakthrough AI platform that orchestrates a powerful pack of AI solutions and platforms to deliver impactful outcomes across the enterprise IT value chain, as we believe ‘AI Without Intelligence Is ArtificialTM’. Mphasis NeoIP™ is powered by the Ontosphere, a dynamic and ever-evolving knowledge base, delivering continuous and constant innovation through perpetual intelligent engineering—driving end-to-end enterprise transformation.At the heart of our approach is customer-centricity—reflected in our proprietary Front2Back™ transformation framework, which uses the exponential power of cloud and cognitive to deliver hyper-personalized digital experiences (C=X2C2TM=1) and build strong relationships with marquee clients. Our Service Transformation solutions enable enterprises to pivot from legacy systems and operations to secure, adaptive, cloud-first operating models with minimal disruption. Continuous investments in platforms, such as the Neo series, enable enterprises to stay efficient, relevant, and ahead in a dynamic AI-first world. Mphasis is a Hi-Tech, Hi-Touch, Hi-Trust company, rooted in a learning and growth culture. Click here to know more. (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS)

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Sophos Announces Partnership with OpenAI to Bring Frontier AI to the Channel

Bangalore, August 2026 : A dedicated channel partnership brings frontier AI to the channel and service providers through Sophos Fusion, powering new security services partners can build onSophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring OpenAI frontier models to managed service providers (MSPs) through Sophos Fusion, the industry's most complete AI-native Cybersecurity Defense System. Through this partnership, Sophos intends to give partners a new way to deliver frontier AI security as one connected defense system, and to build recurring services on top of it.Sophos Fusion is built on a single, open architecture where every control point operates as one, whether native to Sophos or a third-party integration. The partnership will extend that open model, with a focus on bringing OpenAI frontier models into a cyber defense system that already connects endpoint, network, email, cloud, identity, and security operations, and compounds intelligence from every threat it encounters. For MSPs, that means frontier AI arrives inside the defense system they already run, not as another tool to wire in themselves.In addition to applying frontier AI to strengthen defense, Sophos is also defending the AI that organizations increasingly adopt. Through Sophos AI Defense, available for early access in August 2026, Sophos gives organizations visibility into how AI and shadow AI is used across their environment, enforces policy on that usage, and helps govern how sensitive data is used across AI models and tools. Sophos intends to expand this protection with OpenAI, securing the AI workloads, data, and usage that organizations increasingly depend on as part of one connected defense system.The partnership builds on an established relationship between Sophos and OpenAI through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program. Through Daybreak, OpenAI works with leading cybersecurity companies to develop practical, governed solutions for defenders, building new workflows, integrating frontier capabilities, and helping security teams identify, validate and remediate threats faster. This partnership deepens that work with a dedicated focus on the MSPs that deliver security to organizations worldwide, and reflects Sophos’ commitment to an open architecture that brings best-of-breed technologies into one defense system.“Frontier AI only protects organizations at scale when you have the architecture to operationalize it and the reach to deliver it,” said John Peterson, chief technology officer, Sophos. "Sophos Fusion will give OpenAI models a defense system to work inside: connected control points, shared context, and human accountability. Our channel gives them reach through a global network of more than 25,000 partners, including over 7,000 MSPs. For those partners, it opens a new class of AI security services to build a business on. That is how frontier AI reaches the organizations that need it most.”MSPs are uniquely positioned to turn frontier cyber capabilities into practical security outcomes because they understand their customers’ environments and already operate the workflows organizations rely on. Sophos Fusion supports that work by connecting endpoint, network, email, cloud, identity and security operations in one coordinated defense system. By pairing that foundation with OpenAI’s frontier capabilities, Sophos plans to help approved partners enhance detection, investigation, and response and develop new services tailored to their customers’ needs."Many of our clients are adopting AI at rapid speed, and they're asking us how to stay secure while they do it," said Alex Ryals, CISO & SVP at MicroAge, a Sophos partner based in Phoenix, AZ, USA. "Seeing a leader in security and a leader in AI commit to working together on exactly that challenge means we can offer a strong answer for our clients, and new services to grow on."Sophos will share more information about their partnership with OpenAI and potential offerings in the coming months. To learn more about the partnership, visit Sophos.comIf attending Black Hat USA, visit Sophos at booth #3239.Forward-Looking StatementsThis announcement contains forward-looking statements regarding anticipated products, services, collaborations, and future capabilities. Any unreleased services or features referenced are subject to change and may not become generally available. Customers should make purchasing decisions based solely on currently available products and services.About SophosSophos, a global cybersecurity leader, defends more than 625,000 organizations worldwide with Sophos Fusion, the industry’s first and most complete AI-native cybersecurity defense system: a single, connected architecture where every control point operates as one. Powered by agentic AI and elite human expertise, Sophos detects, investigates, and neutralizes threats before they become business-disrupting events. Working alongside a global ecosystem of managed service providers, resellers, and technology partners, Sophos compounds intelligence from every threat encountered and every environment defended to make every customer’s defense stronger than the last. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.