Fortytwo and Telenor Cyberdefense Join Forces to Secure AI Adoption
A partnership built on complementary strengths
Fortytwo and Telenor Cyberdefence are joining forces at a time when many organisations are moving from AI experimentation to real operational use.
The two organizations both recognize the fact that progress comes faster when complementary capabilities are aligned around a common need.
Fortytwo helps organizations establish structure in Microsoft environments, with a focus on identity, access, and the controls needed to manage AI agents in a more deliberate way. That includes creating visibility, defining guardrails, and helping customers put the right governance in place as these agents become more embedded in daily operations.
Telenor Cyberdefence contributes with the capabilities needed once those environments are live and evolving. Their expertise in advisory, security testing, and operational monitoring, helps customers identify suspicious behaviour, detect deviations, and respond when something requires investigation.
AI agents are changing the security conversation
AI agents can retrieve information, trigger actions, interact with business systems, and carry out tasks with a degree of independence that would previously have required human involvement.
This shift introduces a new security reality.
Agents are given broad permissions in order to be useful, yet they are not always managed with the discipline applied to other powerful identities in the enterprise. In practice, companies end up deploying them quickly, while accountability, oversight, and long-term control lag behind.
Permissions build up, responsibilities remain unclear, and security teams lack a full picture of where these agents operate and what they are able to do. The result is a complex environment to defend, with many potential points of exposure.
“Together, we can offer organizations a holistic and seamless security journey, from prevention to continuous monitoring”
Thomas Kronen, CEO of Telenor Cyberdefence
Growing stronger by pulling in the same direction
This is also a partnership shaped by shared ambition. Fortytwo and Telenor Cyberdefence both want to build leading positions in the Nordics, and both see an advantage in helping each other move faster. The timing of this collaboration reflects a broader market shift. Identity has become one of the most important control points in cybersecurity, and that importance is only increasing as AI systems gain access to more tools, data, and workflows.
Analyst firm Solganick identified identity as one of the most active categories for mergers and acquisitions in the fourth quarter of 2025. Announced deals such as Palo Alto Networks’ acquisition of CyberArk and ServiceNow’s acquisition of Veza point in the same direction. Control over identity is becoming more central to enterprise security strategy.
“Companies need to know which agents are active, what kinds of permissions they hold, and how their behaviour evolves over time. The Agentic AI area is moving extremely fast, and keeping up with the security risks and having the neccessary guardrails in place, is a race against time.”
Security should make scale possible
Both companies are clear on one point: the purpose of this partnership is not to slow down AI adoption. The goal is to help organizations move forward with greater confidence.
When businesses have visibility into the AI agents operating across their environment, understand what those agents can access, and have monitoring in place to spot unusual behaviour, they are in a far better position to expand usage safely.
“When organizations gain control over which AI agents exist, what access they have, and how they are monitored, they can operate them safely and at pace,” Robert Darre-Nilsen, CEO, Fortytwo says.
This is what makes the partnership between Fortytwo and Telenor Cyberdefence relevant right now. If AI agents are becoming a lasting part of how organizations operate, they need to be introduced with visibility, accountability, and control built in from the beginning.