ABB DIGITAL

Target: ABB Ltd Domain: Digital Research date: 26 October 2026 Scope: Digital supply chain, Israeli-origin technology relationships, technology investments, cloud and AI services, cybersecurity, data infrastructure and technology provision associated with Israel or occupied territories.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Corporate identity and ownership

ABB Ltd is a Swiss multinational industrial technology company operating in electrification and automation, with operations that include industrial control, digital systems and associated software services.¹

Investor AB reported ownership of 14.6% of ABB’s capital and voting rights in its current portfolio disclosure, making it an identified shareholder exceeding the 10% examination threshold.²

ABB’s official shareholder disclosure identifies Investor AB as its largest reported substantial equity holder, while UBS Fund Management and BlackRock have smaller individually disclosed positions.³

ABB’s March 2026 annual-general-meeting announcement confirmed Peter Voser as Chair and identified Morten Wierod as CEO in the company’s public governance disclosures.^{4, 1}

The 2026 board included David Constable, Frederico Fleury Curado, Johan Forssell, Denise C. Johnson, Jennifer Xin-Zhe Li, Geraldine Matchett, David Meline, Claudia Nemat and Mats Rahmström.⁴

Investor AB also identifies Johan Forssell and Mats Rahmström as its representatives serving on ABB’s board.²

Israeli-origin cybersecurity and operational technology

On 23 October 2019, ABB was identified as a founding participant in the Operational Technology Cyber Security Alliance alongside Israeli cybersecurity companies SCADAfence and Check Point Software Technologies.⁵

The stated purpose of that alliance was to develop guidance and technical practices for industrial operational-technology security, including protection of industrial control systems and critical infrastructure.⁵

This [pre-2020] announcement establishes participation in a common cybersecurity industry initiative, while the cited announcement does not establish a particular internal ABB software licence or deployment.⁵

Act record - OTCSA: Acting entity: ABB Ltd; counterparts: SCADAfence, Check Point Software Technologies and other founding participants; beneficiaries: industrial OT operators; channel: SCADAfence-distributed announcement carried on prnewswire.com; earliest and latest documented announcement: October 2019; subsequent operational status: unverified; audience: public industrial cybersecurity stakeholders; precisely measured publication persistence: not established.⁵

In March 2021, ABB and Nozomi Networks announced a commercial relationship under which ABB would integrate Nozomi Networks’ cybersecurity capabilities into its distributed control system architecture for industrial customers.⁶

The announced integration covered operational-technology network visibility, cybersecurity monitoring and support for energy, process and hybrid industries.⁷

ABB consultants were to receive training in delivering Nozomi Networks products, while ABB laboratories and staging centres would demonstrate integrated cybersecurity capabilities.^{6, 7}

Nozomi Networks currently identifies ABB in its global strategic-alliance directory and OEM partner directory, providing continuing public evidence of the partnership as of October 2026.^{8, 9}

The documented relationship concerns ABB’s commercial integration and provision of cybersecurity technology to industrial customers; the cited material does not establish that ABB uses the same platform for all internal corporate networks.^{6, 7}

Act record - Nozomi Networks: Acting entities: ABB Ltd and Nozomi Networks Inc.; beneficiary: ABB industrial automation and digitalisation customers; channel: industry announcement on controlengeurope.com and the supplier’s own nozominetworks.com directories; earliest documented agreement: March 2021; latest public partner observation: October 2026; status: continuing public partnership listing; audience: industrial customers, systems integrators and cybersecurity buyers; exact duration of individual customer installations: not disclosed.^{8, 9, 6}

A third-party partnership directory lists ABB and Claroty as technology partners and records a first observation in December 2025.¹⁰

The retrieved partnership record identifies the commercial association but provides no verified ABB-wide purchase quantity, detailed product configuration or internal deployment footprint.¹⁰

Act record - Claroty: Acting entities: ABB Ltd and Claroty; beneficiary: not established beyond the reported partnership; channel: partnerbase.com; earliest dated observation: 9 December 2025; latest reviewed observation: October 2026; status: listed by the third-party database, with actual contract status unverified; audience: users of the partnership directory; precise contractual duration: unavailable.¹⁰

No public evidence identified of a specific current ABB internal deployment of Wiz, CyberArk, SentinelOne, NICE, Verint or Palo Alto Networks in the reviewed cybersecurity partnership records.^{8, 10}

Other technology providers and systems integrators

Microsoft identifies ABB as a customer and technology collaborator using Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to extend ABB Ability Genix with generative AI.¹¹

Microsoft’s November 2024 customer account describes Genix Copilot as a natural-language interface for ABB’s industrial analytics and operational information.¹¹

No public evidence identified in the reviewed supplier and partnership disclosures establishing that Microsoft, IBM, Accenture or another named integrator deployed Israeli-origin software as part of a particular ABB internal enterprise transformation programme.^{8, 11}

Named corporate entities and controlling-principal examination

• ABB Ltd: Swiss listed target; searches covered cybersecurity, cloud, AI, military technology and Israeli commercial relationships; findings include Nozomi Networks integration and Microsoft Azure AI collaboration.^{6, 11}
• Investor AB: ABB shareholder exceeding 10%; searches covered ownership, board influence and technology investments; the investor confirms its ABB holding and board representation; no specific Israeli surveillance or military-tech investment attributable to Investor AB through this ABB disclosure was established.²
• ABB Technologies Ltd: Israeli ABB operating entity; searches covered industrial technology, R&D, Israeli infrastructure and state procurement; a specialist Israeli company directory identifies its local industrial automation and technology activities.¹²
• ABB Technology Ventures: ABB corporate venture investor; searches covered Israeli digital investments, sensors, analytics and venture funding; financing records establish investment in TaKaDu and PointGrab.^{13, 14}
• ABB Ventures: ABB corporate venture investment activities; searches covered current Israeli startup interests; historical holdings were found, while current positions in the named Israeli companies were not verified.^{13, 14}
• Hitachi Energy Ltd: Former ABB Power Grids business; searches covered ownership and group attribution; Hitachi’s acquisition of ABB’s remaining interest was completed in December 2022.¹⁵
• Peter Voser: ABB Chair; searched for defence, surveillance, military-intelligence and Israeli technology investment relationships; searched, none found in the reviewed evidence.⁴
• Morten Wierod: ABB CEO; searched for Israeli digital business and defence-technology relationships; searched, none found in the reviewed evidence.¹
• Johan Forssell: ABB director and Investor AB representative; searched for Investor AB influence and Israeli defence or cybersecurity investments; Investor AB confirms his board role, with no relevant direct personal investment verified.²
• Mats Rahmström: ABB director and Investor AB representative; searched for defence and Israeli technology links; board relationship confirmed, relevant personal investment not verified.²
• David Constable: ABB director; searched for defence-industry and Israeli technology involvement; searched, none found establishing a relevant personal act.⁴
• Frederico Fleury Curado: ABB director; searched for defence, aerospace and Israeli technology relationships; searched, none found establishing a relevant personal act.⁴
• Denise C. Johnson: ABB director; searched for Israeli cybersecurity or defence-industry investment links; searched, none found establishing a relevant personal act.⁴
• Jennifer Xin-Zhe Li: ABB director; searched for Israeli technology investment links; searched, none found establishing a relevant personal act.⁴
• Geraldine Matchett: ABB director; searched for Israeli AI, defence and cybersecurity investments; searched, none found establishing a relevant personal act.⁴
• David Meline: ABB director; searched for relevant Israeli technology investments; searched, none found establishing a relevant personal act.⁴
• Claudia Nemat: ABB director; searched for Israeli cybersecurity and telecommunications-related interests; searched, none found establishing a relevant personal act.⁴

The reviewed governance records do not establish complete beneficial ownership of every investment vehicle associated with individual ABB directors.^{2, 3}

On 23 April 2026, the Israel Airports Authority published procurement-exemption notice 44/2026 identifying ABB Technologies Ltd (ABB טכנולוגיות בע”מ) as the supplier of support services for MicroSCADA Pro SYS600 industrial control software installed in high-voltage electrical systems at Ben Gurion Airport. The notice explicitly identifies ABB Technologies Ltd as the supplier and specifies a contractual service period from 9 June 2026 to 8 June 2028. This establishes a documented Israeli critical-infrastructure deployment of ABB industrial control technology and a procurement arrangement for its continued support. The notice does not independently establish the original installation date, contract value, or whether the full support period will be performed as scheduled.¹⁶

Israel Airports Authority procurement-exemption notice 44/2026 - documented contemporary supplier relationship: The Israel Airports Authority’s official procurement-exemption notice 44/2026, published on 23 April 2026, expressly names ABB Technologies Ltd (ABB טכנולוגיות בע”מ) as the supplier/customer for an engagement concerning support services for MicroSCADA Pro SYS600 systems manufactured by ABB Technologies Ltd and installed in the high-voltage electrical infrastructure at Ben Gurion Airport. The notice specifies an engagement period beginning 9 June 2026 and ending 8 June 2028, and identifies the underlying procurement action as a committee decision granting an exemption from tender. This establishes a specifically identified Israeli public-infrastructure customer relationship, a named ABB technology product, its operational installation context, and a defined prospective support period. It confirms the existing audit’s statement identifying this procurement arrangement under Named corporate entities and controlling-principal examination and provides direct primary-source evidence of its terms. It also narrows any general assertion that ABB Technologies Ltd’s contemporary Israeli customer or service relationships remain unknown: this particular relationship is publicly documented, although the notice alone does not establish the original installation date, contract value, whether services have actually been performed, or whether other ABB relationships remain active. The documented system concerns civilian airport electrical-infrastructure control and does not independently establish a defence, intelligence or population-surveillance application.¹⁶

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

Israeli computer vision and occupancy analytics

ABB Technology Ventures participated in financing PointGrab, an Israeli developer of optical sensing and analytics technology used in building management.¹⁴

A December 2015 financing report identifies ABB Technology Ventures among the investors in PointGrab’s $5 million funding round.¹⁴

PointGrab’s technology used machine learning and sensing to collect information about people’s presence and movement in buildings for purposes including facility management and workplace analytics.¹⁷

A separate investor announcement in December 2015 confirms ABB Technology Ventures’ participation alongside EcoMachines Ventures and other investors.¹⁸

PointGrab’s February 2026 announcement describes the CogniPoint platform as combining occupancy sensors and edge AI with real-time occupancy data supplied to workplace management applications.¹⁷

The February 2026 announcement introduced CogniPoint 2 Flex, an enterprise occupancy sensor using Thread networking and on-device AI processing, establishing that PointGrab’s relevant business continued beyond its original financing period.¹⁷

The historical ABB investment does not establish that ABB continued holding shares in October 2026 or that ABB itself deployed PointGrab devices in its workplaces.^{14, 17}

Act record - PointGrab investment: Acting entity: ABB Technology Ventures; recipient: PointGrab; channel: investment reported on tech.eu and confirmed in an EcoMachines Ventures announcement on prweb.com; earliest dated observation: December 2015 [pre-2020]; latest technology-company observation: February 2026; ABB investment status at research date: unknown; original public audience: investors and building-technology customers; exact duration of ABB’s equity ownership: not established.^{14, 17, 18}

Facial recognition and biometric identification

No public evidence identified that ABB Ltd or ABB Technologies Ltd purchased or deployed facial-recognition or biometric-identification products from AnyVision/Oosto, BriefCam, Trigo or Trax in the reviewed industrial partnership and Israeli technology records.^{12, 8, 17}

PointGrab’s documented occupancy analytics should be distinguished from facial identification because the February 2026 technical description establishes occupancy monitoring and on-device spatial inference without establishing identity recognition; the supplier explicitly states that its new sensor does not collect personally identifiable information.¹⁷

Predictive analytics and monitoring

Nozomi Networks markets industrial network and endpoint monitoring, threat detection and AI-based security analysis; ABB is publicly identified as a technology partner.^{19, 8}

This is evidence of industrial infrastructure monitoring technology provision, while the cited supplier information does not establish predictive policing or monitoring of political activity.¹⁹

Third-party deployment

ABB’s integration of Nozomi Networks technology into industrial automation systems is a verified route by which third-party monitoring capabilities can reach ABB customers.^{6, 7}

No public evidence identified that this integration supplied facial-recognition, political-surveillance or biometric-identification technology to Israeli state security agencies.^{6, 19}

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Enterprise cloud relationships

Microsoft’s 18 November 2024 case study confirms that ABB used Azure OpenAI Service to develop Genix Copilot for its industrial analytics platform.¹¹

The Microsoft account explains that ABB Ability Genix processes industrial operating information, including equipment performance, energy use and emissions data, and that Genix Copilot makes this information accessible through natural-language queries.¹¹

The account specifically describes industrial analytics operating on Microsoft Azure, demonstrating a cloud infrastructure dependency within ABB’s customer-facing digital services.¹¹

Act record - Microsoft Azure and Genix Copilot: Acting entities: ABB Ltd and Microsoft Corporation; beneficiaries: ABB industrial customers and ABB service teams; channel: Microsoft’s customer documentation on microsoft.com; earliest directly reviewed detailed observation: November 2024; latest reviewed documentation: October 2026; status: continuing as described in the published customer case study, with individual customer-contract duration undisclosed; audience: industrial enterprise cloud and AI customers; public communication remained accessible at research date.¹¹

Data-exposure and residency examination

The documented Genix service handles operational industrial information supplied by ABB customers, but the reviewed Microsoft case study does not establish an Israeli storage region, Israeli-based processing personnel or Israeli legal access to any particular ABB customer’s data.¹¹

No public evidence identified establishing that ABB operates, leases or co-locates a dedicated data centre in Israel for the Genix platform or its own enterprise applications.^{12, 11}

No public evidence identified establishing that ABB-specific customer information was routed through Israeli-controlled infrastructure by virtue of its partnership with Microsoft.¹¹

Government cloud programmes

No public evidence identified establishing ABB Ltd or ABB Technologies Ltd as a contractor, subcontractor or system integrator for Project Nimbus in the reviewed ABB partner, cloud and Israeli operating-company records.^{12, 11}

No public evidence identified establishing a separate Israeli government sovereign-cloud contract under which ABB provides managed storage, government cloud hosting or data-residency services.^{12, 11}

Infrastructure resilience services

ABB’s technology relationships include industrial cybersecurity and monitoring solutions supplied through its Nozomi Networks partnership.^{6, 19}

No public evidence identified that these services were specifically contracted to provide digital sovereignty or military-cloud resilience to an Israeli security institution.^{6, 19}

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

Military and intelligence contracts

No public evidence identified in the reviewed Israeli operating-company, technology-partnership and civil-society records establishing a direct ABB digital services contract with the Israel Ministry of Defence, Israel Defense Forces or an Israeli intelligence agency.^{1, 12, 8}

No public evidence identified establishing that ABB provided offensive cyber software, signals-intelligence platforms or military communications analytics to those agencies.^{12, 19}

Settlement-linked infrastructure and security systems

Who Profits documents ABB electrical equipment at the Kalia Solar Field in the occupied West Bank, including an industrial electrical enclosure identified as product 1SL0221A00 during an October 2017 investigation.¹

The documented solar installation was associated with Clal Sun Ltd and Kibbutz Kalia and occupied approximately 135,000 square metres, according to Who Profits’ account.¹

Who Profits also reports ABB involvement in security systems at the Beitar electricity substation, which supplies electricity to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.¹

AFSC Investigate independently identifies ABB among companies associated with settlement infrastructure and cites the Kalia solar-field equipment and electrical-substation security systems.²⁰

The available descriptions do not specify whether the Beitar security system consisted of physical access control, electronic monitoring, industrial control equipment or another type of security infrastructure.^{1, 20}

The documented 2017 Kalia equipment was electrical infrastructure rather than a specifically identified cyber-surveillance or weapons-system product.¹

Act record - Kalia Solar Field: Acting entity identified in the investigation: ABB Group, through equipment bearing its product identification; recipient or project beneficiary: Kalia Solar Field, associated with Clal Sun Ltd and Kibbutz Kalia; channel: equipment observed in the field and reported on whoprofits.org; earliest documented observation: October 2017 [pre-2020]; latest separately verified delivery or maintenance date: not established; status in October 2026: unknown; audience of the underlying supply transaction: not documented; audience of the investigative publication: general public.¹

Act record - Beitar substation: Acting entity identified by Who Profits: ABB Group; beneficiary: electricity-substation infrastructure serving West Bank settlements; channel: civil-society investigation published on whoprofits.org; exact contract date and legal contracting subsidiary: not established; last published investigation validity date: March 2021; continuing status in October 2026: unknown; technology specification and service duration: not disclosed.¹

Constructive notice and continuation

The documented Kalia equipment observation predates 19 July 2024, while the reviewed public record does not independently establish a fresh ABB supply, renewal or maintenance transaction at Kalia after that date.¹

The Beitar-substation investigation likewise does not establish a separately dated transaction after November 2024.¹

No public evidence identified establishing that ABB continued the specific documented settlement-related technology provision after the July 2024 ICJ advisory opinion or the November 2024 ICC warrants.^{1, 20}

Offensive cyber and weapons technology

No public evidence identified of an ABB-developed offensive exploitation platform, zero-day weaponisation service or digital targeting system supplied to Israeli security bodies.^{12, 19}

No public evidence identified of an ABB software system designed primarily to generate kinetic targeting decisions for the Israeli military.^{12, 19}

Any subsequently established purpose-built targeting or fire-control system would require assessment under Military rather than treating ordinary industrial cybersecurity or cloud services as equivalent technology.¹⁹

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Industrial artificial intelligence

ABB and Microsoft developed Genix Copilot by combining ABB Ability Genix industrial analytics with Azure OpenAI Service, according to Microsoft’s November 2024 published customer account.¹¹

The documented applications include industrial operations monitoring, emissions analysis, equipment performance, maintenance optimisation and natural-language access to operational data.¹¹

Microsoft reports that ABB service teams also use Genix Copilot in customer-support processes.¹¹

Act record - industrial AI integration: Acting entities: ABB Ltd and Microsoft Corporation; recipients: industrial customers and ABB service organisations; channel: published Microsoft customer case study; documented observation: November 2024, accessible during October 2026 research; status: described as an operating commercial application; individual deployments and contract dates: not disclosed; audience: industrial AI customers and technology buyers.¹¹

Israeli AI and sensing investments

PointGrab’s technology combines optical sensing with occupancy analytics and therefore represents an Israeli-origin AI-related technology investment attributable historically to ABB Technology Ventures.^{14, 17}

The investment is evidence of financing an Israeli AI-enabled sensing business, while the reviewed records do not establish an ABB contract to use PointGrab for policing, military surveillance or intelligence analysis.^{14, 17}

TaKaDu developed cloud-based analytics for detecting and analysing events in water-distribution networks, and ABB Technology Ventures participated in financing the company.¹³

The documented TaKaDu investment concerns general-purpose utility infrastructure analytics rather than a verified military-targeting application.¹³

AI provision to Israeli state bodies

No public evidence identified establishing a direct ABB AI or machine-learning contract with an Israeli military, intelligence or security agency in the reviewed technology and investment records.^{12, 11, 13}

Training data and civilian information

No public evidence identified that ABB’s Genix models were trained on intercepted communications, population-surveillance datasets or records gathered from Palestinian civilians in occupied territories.¹¹

No public evidence identified that ABB supplied civilian biometric databases from occupied territories to an Israeli AI developer.^{12, 17}

Autonomous targeting and lethality

No public evidence identified establishing ABB provision of autonomous target-generation software, automated attack planning or AI fire-control systems to Israeli military forces.^{12, 11}

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Israeli operating presence

Israeli industry directory IVC identifies ABB Technologies Ltd as a local ABB entity serving Israeli industry through automation, electrification and related technology products.¹²

The directory associates the company with ABB Ltd and describes activities spanning robotics, smart grids, sensing technology and industrial infrastructure.¹²

The available profile indicates a local research and technology affiliation, but the retrieved record does not independently document the precise number of dedicated R&D personnel or the technical outputs of a specific ABB Israeli research laboratory.¹²

Act record - Israeli operating entity: Acting entity: ABB Technologies Ltd; parent relationship: ABB Ltd; customers: Israeli industrial and infrastructure markets; channel: Israeli company directory on ivc-online.com; earliest historical operating date listed: 1947 [pre-2020]; latest directory observation: October 2026; status: current company listing; individual projects and contracts: not exhaustively disclosed; audience: users of the Israeli company directory.¹²

Venture investments

ABB Technology Ventures invested in Israeli company TaKaDu as part of a reported $6 million financing round in 2012, contributing approximately $3 million according to Global Venturing.¹³

TaKaDu’s business concerned software for water utilities, including automated event detection and network management.¹³

Act record - TaKaDu: Acting entity: ABB Technology Ventures; recipient: TaKaDu; channel: venture-financing report on globalventuring.com; dated observation: April 2012 [pre-2020]; ABB investment amount: approximately $3 million; subsequent shareholding and exit date: unknown; audience: venture-capital and industrial technology readers; duration of equity holding: not established.¹³

In December 2015, ABB Technology Ventures participated in PointGrab’s $5 million financing round, according to independent reporting.¹⁴

PointGrab developed occupancy analytics and connected sensing technologies intended for building-management applications.^{14, 17}

PointGrab remained active in workplace sensing technology in 2026, although that continuing commercial activity does not independently establish continuing ABB share ownership.¹⁷

Act record - PointGrab financing: Acting entity: ABB Technology Ventures; recipient: PointGrab; channel: independent announcement on tech.eu and participant statement carried by prweb.com; earliest observed transaction: December 2015 [pre-2020]; subsequent company-product observation: February 2026; ABB equity status at research date: unknown; audience: venture investors and smart-building technology customers.^{14, 18, 17}

Who Profits additionally names Pentalum among Israeli companies receiving investment from ABB’s corporate venture activities.¹

The reviewed records do not independently establish the original Pentalum investment amount, ABB’s current equity position or any resulting digital service contract with the Israeli state.¹

Industrial technology and Israeli manufacturing relationships

Afcon’s description of its electrical manufacturing operations identifies technology agreements involving ABB and manufacture of electrical equipment using associated know-how.²¹

Afcon also markets industrial software and operational-intelligence solutions through its own Israeli business operations.²²

The documents establish Afcon’s Israeli automation activities and an ABB-related manufacturing technology relationship, while they do not demonstrate that every Afcon software service is an ABB product.^{21, 22}

Act record - Afcon: Acting entity: Afcon’s Israeli manufacturing business; technology counterparty: ABB; beneficiaries: electrical-infrastructure customers; channel: Afcon’s corporate website, afcon.co.il; earliest agreement date: unspecified; latest public company description: available in October 2026; status: publicly described technology relationship, with current contractual duration unverified; audience: industrial equipment customers.²¹

Group attribution and historical divestment

Hitachi Energy confirms that Hitachi acquired majority control of ABB Power Grids in July 2020, initially leaving ABB with a minority interest.²³

Hitachi Energy confirms that ABB’s remaining ownership interest was transferred to Hitachi in December 2022.¹⁵

Act record - Power Grids divestment: Acting entities: ABB Ltd and Hitachi Ltd; recipient: Hitachi; business concerned: former ABB Power Grids; channel: Hitachi Energy corporate disclosures on hitachienergy.com; earliest principal completion: July 2020; final ABB share disposal: December 2022; status: completed divestment; audience: investors, customers and industrial stakeholders.^{15, 23}

The disposal establishes a corporate attribution boundary for subsequent Hitachi Energy contracts and technology operations after December 2022.¹⁵

Patents and academic cooperation

No public evidence identified of a specific ABB co-owned patent or technology-development agreement with Technion, Hebrew University or the Weizmann Institute involving Israeli surveillance, military AI or offensive cybersecurity in the reviewed corporate technology records.^{12, 13}

No public evidence identified establishing an ABB-funded Israeli university research project developing autonomous targeting or population-surveillance technology.^{12, 13}

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Who Profits

Who Profits includes ABB Group in its company database covering commercial activity associated with the Israeli occupation.²⁴

Its company profile identifies ABB electrical equipment at the Kalia Solar Field and reports ABB security systems associated with the Beitar substation.¹

The organisation also documents ABB corporate-venture investments in Israeli technology companies and ABB’s wider Israeli infrastructure relationships.¹

The company’s Who Profits profile states that the underlying information was valid until 28 March 2021, establishing a historical limit for interpreting the investigation as evidence of current activity.¹

AFSC Investigate

AFSC Investigate maintains an ABB Ltd profile identifying settlement-related infrastructure and exploitation-of-natural-resources concerns.²⁰

AFSC’s settlement-industry index separately lists ABB among companies connected with settlement infrastructure.²⁵

AFSC explains that its investigations rely on company disclosures, government records, civil-society research and independently assessed evidence.²⁶

The presence of ABB in these investigative databases establishes published civil-society scrutiny, while the records alone do not establish a new transaction after July 2024.^{1, 20}

Act record - public investigations: Acting organisations: Who Profits and American Friends Service Committee; subject: ABB Ltd and historical ABB Group equipment; beneficiaries of the publications: researchers, investors and public audiences; channels: whoprofits.org and investigate.afsc.org; earliest specifically dated field observation: October 2017; latest reviewed web availability: October 2026; publication status: publicly accessible; commercial supply continuation: unverified.^{1, 20, 25}

Boycott and divestment activity

ABB appears in AFSC Investigate’s public company and settlement-industry lists, which are designed to inform research concerning corporate involvement in occupation-related activities.^{20, 25}

AFSC distinguishes its wider company database from its narrower divestment shortlist, and inclusion in the general database does not itself establish placement on that shortlist.²⁶

No public evidence identified in the reviewed records establishing a separate current international boycott campaign specifically directed at ABB’s provision of cybersecurity, cloud services or AI systems.^{20, 26}

Corporate response

Who Profits records that ABB acknowledged receipt of a November 2017 inquiry concerning the organisation’s findings.¹

The accessible company-response excerpt does not independently establish termination of the documented infrastructure involvement.¹

Regulatory and legal actions

No public evidence identified in the reviewed civil-society company profiles or technology partnership records of a regulatory enforcement action specifically concerning ABB’s transfer of surveillance software, offensive cyber systems or AI technology to Israeli military or intelligence agencies.^{1, 20, 8}

No public evidence identified establishing an export-control prosecution or sanctions penalty against ABB specifically arising from the named Israeli technology partnerships examined in this audit.^{1, 20}

Evidence chronology

The reviewed records document historical settlement-related electrical equipment in 2017, cybersecurity alliance participation in 2019, industrial cybersecurity integration in 2021, an AI-cloud customer case study in November 2024 and continuing Nozomi Networks partner listings in October 2026.^{1, 5, 6, 11, 8}

The documented historical settlement-equipment record and the more recent cloud and cybersecurity relationships concern different products and recipients, and the cited evidence does not establish that the newer technologies were supplied to settlement operators or Israeli military customers.^{1, 8, 11}

ABB’s documented response to Who Profits - November 2017: Appendix III of Who Profits’ May 2018 report reproduces an email sent on 30 November 2017 by Adrienne Williams, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd’s Head of Corporate Responsibility. Williams explicitly acknowledged receipt of Who Profits’ letter dated 9 November 2017, which requested ABB’s response to a planned publication concerning its business activities. ABB stated that the draft findings submitted for review were substantially correct, while requesting two factual amendments: Doral Solar should be classified as a local customer rather than a strategic business partner, and ABB’s 2016 revenue should be recorded as USD 33,379,000,000. ABB maintained that its business activities complied with applicable international regulations and that the business cases identified by Who Profits were consistent with this position. This confirms and materially expands the existing audit’s statement under Corporate response that ABB acknowledged receipt of the November 2017 inquiry. It establishes that ABB also substantively accepted the general accuracy of the submitted draft, subject to specified corrections, and defended the regulatory compliance of the activities. The correspondence does not establish that ABB terminated any reported activity, independently verify every underlying allegation, or demonstrate that its legal interpretation was correct.^{27, 1}