A strategic partnership combines CDW’s global reach with Templar Shield’s expertise in the ServiceNow risk and security ecosystem, including Flightpaths for Integrated Risk Management, Security Operations, AI Control Tower, and Operational Technology Management.

Executives emphasize modernization, automation, and measurable resilience, with perspectives from Templar Shield’s Nicholas Friedman and CDW’s Rahimulah Rahimi underscoring the initiative’s impact.

Templar Shield will sell and deliver under CDW’s contracting model, enabling frictionless access for CDW clients while CDW assists with scalable ITx workflow delivery.

Flightpaths provide a structured roadmap from assessment to deployment to accelerate time-to-value while ensuring alignment with international regulatory frameworks.

Joint delivery scope covers policy lifecycle and compliance, enterprise IT, OT, and AI risk management, third-party risk management, and operational resilience including business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management.

Core delivery domains include policy lifecycle and compliance, enterprise IT/OT/AI risk management, third-party risk management, and operational resilience such as disaster recovery and crisis management.

Joint delivery will address core risk and resiliency domains including policy lifecycle and compliance, enterprise IT and OT risk, AI risk, third-party risk management, and operational resilience with disaster recovery and crisis management.

OT risk and compliance capabilities are enhanced through Templar Shield’s OT Guardian, enabling continuous monitoring and alignment with standards like NERC, TSA, IEC 62443, NIS2, NEI 08-09, NIST 800-53/800-82, and ISO 27001 for critical infrastructure sectors.

OT Guardian strengthens CDW’s ability to support OT-heavy sectors with continuous monitoring and compliance aligned to multiple standards including NERC, TSA, IEC 62443, NIS2, NEI 08-09, NIST, and ISO 27001.

OT risk and compliance capabilities are enhanced through OT Guardian, supporting critical sectors with standards such as NERC, TSA, IEC 62443, NIS2, NEI 08-09, NIST 800-53/800-82, and ISO 27001.

AI governance combines ServiceNow AI Control Tower with Templar Shield’s VVET framework (Validate, Verify, Evaluate, Test) to keep AI systems safe, auditable, and under human/legal/ethical control.

AI governance is enabled by integrating ServiceNow AI Control Tower with VVET (Validate, Verify, Evaluate, Test) to ensure AI remains safe, auditable, and under appropriate oversight.