H2O.ai completes IRAP assessment at PROTECTED level, advancing secure Sovereign AI for Australian Government. Sep 02, 2026 Assessment against the Information Security Manual's PROTECTED level controls positions H2O.ai to support security-conscious Australian government and highly regulated agencies MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - [September, 2, 2026] - H2O.ai, the sovereign enterprise AI platform for predictive, generative and agentic AI, with built-in observability and governance, today announced it has completed an Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment for H2O AI Cloud against the March 2026 version of the Australian Government Information Security Manual's (ISM) PROTECTED level controls. This version of the ISM introduced explicit controls for AI governance and data protection, further demonstrating H2O.ai's readiness to protect the Australian government's most sensitive data across defence, law enforcement, health, and public sector environments. H2O.ai is now one of the few AI platforms to have been assessed against the ISM's PROTECTED level controls across predictive, generative, and agentic AI. The H2O AI Cloud platform combines all three together in a single environment purpose-built for government and regulated industries, enabling agencies to build and deploy AI for citizen centric service and decision support, fraud reduction, cybersecurity, and program integrity while retaining control over their data, infrastructure, and deployment environment. The milestone extends a compliance and partnership track record H2O.ai has built globally: FedRAMP(R) High Certification in the U.S., a listing in AWS's Intelligence Community Marketplace (ICMP) for federal and intelligence community customers, a SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA/HITECH report with unqualified status, and strategic investment from NVIDIA. In Australia, H2O.ai already supports Commonwealth Bank of Australia and works with AI service delivery partners including xAmplify, Dell, and CAN.B Group. H2O.ai has also partnered with NeoCloud provider Sharon AI to accelerate sovereign AI adoption nationally, underpinned by a dedicated NVIDIA government reference architecture. By completing an IRAP assessment against PROTECTED-level controls, H2O.ai brings the world's most reliable, accurate sovereign AI with the trust and security that Australia's top intelligence and sensitive public services need. Sri Ambati Founder and CEO of H2O.ai As custodians of Australia's most sensitive government data, newly appointed Chief AI Officers and their teams now have the ability to safely build and scale governed, secure AI capabilities on technology trusted by some of the largest government and banking institutions. Trent Dolphin Director of Federal Government & ANZ at H2O.ai Agencies can use the resulting assessment report as part of their own security authorization process to evaluate H2O.ai's platform for use cases such as: * Fraud, waste, and abuse prevention * Cybersecurity and insider threat prevention * Predictive analytics and resource optimization * Agentic and generative AI applications for citizen services * Intelligent document processing and automation FedRAMP(R) is a registered trademark of the U.S. General Services Administration. Use of the FedRAMP name and mark does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. About H2O.ai. H2O.ai is on a mission to democratize AI for Good. As the world's leading agentic AI company, H2O.ai converges Generative and Predictive AI to help enterprises and public sector agencies develop purpose-built Agents, SLMs, and solutions on their private data. With a focus on secure, compliant, and infrastructure-flexible Sovereign AI deployments, H2O.ai delivers solutions that align with the highest standards of data privacy and control. Its open-source technology is trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 500. H2O.ai powers AI transformation for companies like AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Workday, Progressive Insurance, and NIH. Through its AI for Good program, H2O.ai supports nonprofits, public sector agencies, and global institutions in advancing healthcare, education, disaster response, and environmental sustainability using agentic and predictive AI. H2O.ai has raised $256 million from investors, including Commonwealth Bank, NVIDIA, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Nexus Ventures, and New York Life. Media contact.

H2O.ai joins Open Secure AI Alliance to strengthen AI software and agents security. Aug 10, 2026 H2O.ai brings its experience securing agentic AI for customers in highly regulated industries, where controlling what an agent can access and do matters most. [MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif] - [11 August, 2026] - H2O.ai, the sovereign enterprise AI platform for predictive, generative and agentic AI, with built-in observability and governance, today announced that it has joined NVIDIA and other industry leaders in the Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry initiative to develop and share open technologies, techniques and tools that strengthen the security of software and AI agents. H2O.ai also backs the principles outlined in the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter, including the role of open models in strengthening safety, cybersecurity, innovation and AI sovereignty. Together, these efforts reflect a shared belief that open AI is important not only for innovation and competition, but also for security and control. Open weights give organizations greater visibility into the models they use and the freedom to adapt and run them on their own infrastructure. Open security tools extend that control across the broader AI system, including agent identity, permissions, guardrails, evaluation and auditability. "Open source is about freedom, not just free. Sovereign AI is only possible with open weights and distributed shared philosophy of innovation. At H2O.ai, H2O.ai, Inc. recognized that AI is far too important to not be open and was founded with decades of innovation and community building with open source. All of its math and algorithms and several SLMs like H2O-Danube and H2O-Mississippi have been open with contributions every year since inception. Open weights models and open ecosystems unleash the juggernaut of innovation and usher abundance by unlocking human potential and the possibilities for AI in science, math, health and AI for Good. Every nation needs to be an AI nation. Every organization, enterprise, and every government needs to be AI-native and make AI their own, to govern, and learn from the feedback loops of continuous use of AI." Sri Ambati Founder and CEO of H2O.ai As AI agents gain access to sensitive data, applications and critical workflows, security must address more than whether a model is open or closed. Protecting these systems requires controls across the full agent stack, as well as the ability for defenders to test, adapt and strengthen those controls. Through its participation in the Open Secure AI Alliance, H2O.ai will work with NVIDIA and other members to advance open approaches to AI security and help organizations deploy AI systems they can trust, govern and control. About H2O.ai. H2O.ai is on a mission to democratize AI for Good. As the world's leading agentic AI company, H2O.ai converges Generative and Predictive AI to help enterprises and public sector agencies develop purpose-built Agents, SLMs, and solutions on their private data. With a focus on secure, compliant, and infrastructure-flexible Sovereign AI deployments, H2O.ai delivers solutions that align with the highest standards of data privacy and control. Its open-source technology is trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 500. H2O.ai powers AI transformation for companies like AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chipotle, Workday, Progressive Insurance, and NIH. Through its AI for Good program, H2O.ai supports nonprofits, public sector agencies, and global institutions in advancing healthcare, education, disaster response, and environmental sustainability using agentic and predictive AI. H2O.ai has raised $256 million from investors, including Commonwealth Bank, NVIDIA, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Nexus Ventures, and New York Life.