Holistic AI-Driven Cyber Security Platform: Schwarz Digits, XM Cyber and SentinelOne deepen Strategic Alliance

(Neckarsulm, Germany) – At a time when organized cybercrime is causing record damage and hybrid threats are threatening supply chains, isolated defense measures with up to 80 different solutions per organization are no longer sufficient. To protect critical data and processes, companies need both a holistic security strategy and seamless security platforms that cover the entire attack lifecycle across their various attack surfaces. SentinelOne, Schwarz Digits, and XM Cyber deepen their strategic partnership and offer companies and organizations of all sizes an AI-supported 360-degree security suite.

Powerful Combination: Holistic and AI-Powered Suite for High-End Protection

This joint solution consists of SentinelOne’s AI-powered security platform, which protects endpoints, servers, and cloud environments, defends against cyber attacks in real time, automatically remediates vulnerabilities, and provides support in managing security incidents. And Schwarz Digits’ suite of security solutions: XM Cyber’s Continuous Exposure Management Platform which discovers and interconnects exposures across external, enterprise, cloud, and hybrid attack surfaces. The platform also helps organizations identify and map AI components, their usage, and the exposures they create. This information is integrated into the platform's attack graph analysis to show which exposures pose the most risk. Additionally, the Omniac app and API service checks whether personal data such as email addresses or passwords have appeared on deep-, dark- or surface web, thereby contributing to identity protection for organizations and consumers.

Noam Erez, CEO and Co-Founder of XM Cyber, says: "The future of cybersecurity lies in creating intelligent, integrated platforms that provide clarity and drive decisive action. Threat actors thrive in the gaps between an organization's proactive and reactive security controls, and our mission is to eliminate those gaps.”

Tomer Weingarten, CEO and Co-Founder of SentinelOne, says: “We are  in a new era of cyber war, where AI fights AI. For this, we need autonomous, AI-driven defense, capable of neutralizing threats in real time. To achieve this, we can’t just look at individual endpoints. We must bring all security data together in a single context. The Schwarz Digits solutions strengthen our platform enormously.”

Sovereignly protected: The new security platform on the German cloud STACKIT

XM Cyber provides the proactive attacker’s perspective, showing exactly how an adversary could compromise critical assets. SentinelOne delivers the best-in-class, real-time ability to detect and stop those attacks as they happen. By fusing these capabilities, teams can connect the dots between potential risks and active threats, enabling customers to operate with unprecedented efficiency.

Additionally, the holistic solution runs on Schwarz Digits’  sovereign cloud platform, STACKIT as well. This offers complete data sovereignty for all customers, granting digital independence, as well as the highest security standards. For European companies, a complete sovereign security platform is paramount. German-based companies can already leverage XM Cyber's leading Exposure Management platform via STACKIT. By migrating SentinelOne's leading SecOps platform to run on STACKIT, European customers will gain access to the most comprehensive sovereign security platform.

First customer: The companies of the Schwarz Group themselves 

Rolf Schumann, Co-CEO of Schwarz Digits: “Cybersecurity is an integral part of our strategic direction—both for the companies of the Schwarz Group and for the digital solutions we offer as Schwarz Digits. That's why we are continuously working to protect our customers and ourselves even better. Thanks to the strategic partnership with SentinelOne, we are succeeding in further developing the European and global market for cybersecurity and offering sovereign alternatives.”

Christian Müller, Co-CEO of Schwarz Digits: “With this partnership, we are reaching the next evolutionary stage in cybersecurity, which is urgently needed for society and the economy. Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally changing the rules of the game – for those who are protecting themselves, but also for the attackers. Our partnership is a strong signal to all organizations that want to protect themselves appropriately in the age of AI – and to do so sovereignly and seamlessly.”

As one of the world's largest retail groups, the companies in the Schwarz Group have an extensive IT and OT environment - with more than 14,200 stores, global production sites and 595,000 employees. Thus, they provide an ideal environment for applying and scaling new solutions. Schwarz Digits solutions are initially tested, rolled out and optimized in their own extensive environment. Only when they function optimally for themselves and create real added value, they offer them on the market.