Cybersecurity Services for Kyndryl
World's largest IT infrastructure services provider (spun off from IBM in 2021), offering comprehensive cyber resilience services including security operations, incident response, and compliance.
CWS is not affiliated with Kyndryl. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.
Kyndryl at a glance
- Founded
- 2021
- Revenue
- $15.1B (FY2026, year ended March 31, 2026), of which Kyndryl Consult was $3.5B on $4B of signings
- People
- about 72,000 in 60 countries as of March 31, 2026, with approximately 90 percent working outside the United States
- Operates in
- One Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York (headquarters), customers in more than 60 countries, workforce hubs in India, Japan, Poland, Brazil, Czechia and Hungary, reporting segments: United States, Japan, Principal Markets, Strategic Markets
- Verticals
- financial services (about 40 percent of fiscal 2026 revenue)
- Acquisitions
- Skytap (2024, now sold as Kyndryl Cloud Uplift)
- Ownership
- Spun off from IBM and listed on the New York Stock Exchange under KD on November 4, 2021, with IBM temporarily retaining 19.9 percent of the equity at separation
Compiled from public sources: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1867072/000110465926067881/kd-20260331x10k.htm, https://investors.kyndryl.com/news-releases/news-release-details/kyndryl-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2026-results, https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/about-us/news/2021/11/2021-11-04-Kyndryl-Completes-Separation-from-IBM, https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/services/cloud-uplift.
The Challenge for Enterprise Resellers
Kyndryl began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on November 4, 2021, carrying out of IBM the infrastructure services unit of its Global Technology Services segment, with IBM holding on to 19.9 percent of the stock at separation. As of March 31, 2026 the company employed about 72,000 people in 60 countries. Roughly nine in ten of them work outside the United States
That geography sits awkwardly against where the growth is. The United States is one of four reporting segments, alongside Japan, Principal Markets and Strategic Markets, and Kyndryl Consult, the advisory and implementation business, grew 18 percent to $3.5 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 while total revenue of $15.1 billion stayed flat. Signings for that unit reached $4 billion, which is a pipeline that has to be delivered by identifiable people standing in the customer's country. Advisory work gets done in the room. Security and resiliency engagements, zero trust architecture and continuous compliance among them, are read afterwards by regulators who want to know which named people did the work and which jurisdiction they sat in. About 40 percent of revenue comes from financial services customers, and those are the ones who ask first
CWS is the onshore bench for exactly that. Engagements are staffed under the Kyndryl name and run to one delivery standard across the United States and Canada, in English and in French where a Quebec or Canadian federal client requires it. Corova handles the scoping and quoting and keeps a project trail that survives review. None of that arrangement is visible to the client
Relevant CWS Services for Kyndryl
Based on Kyndryl's specializations, the following CWS service lines align with their cybersecurity practice.
Why This Matters for Kyndryl
Kyndryl Consult grows on people who can be named, located and put in front of a regulator. Building that population in North America is slow and expensive when nine in ten Kyndryls sit somewhere else. Renting it under the Kyndryl badge is neither
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