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Adobe DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
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Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Adobe’s current Approved Trust List identifies ComSign, headquartered in Israel, as an approved trust-service provider whose digital-signing certificates and timestamp services are trusted by Acrobat and Document Cloud solutions 1. This establishes product trust-list interoperability rather than evidence that ComSign provides Adobe’s internal enterprise infrastructure 1.

A 2022 Israel Land Authority tender contemplated procurement of Adobe Acrobat, Creative Cloud, Photoshop, XD, and Premiere Pro licences, with updates, support, and servers 2. The tender required bidders to be Adobe Gold Resellers in Israel and specified that products be legally licensed and purchased directly from Adobe 2. The record does not identify an awardee, quantities, contract value, renewal status, or a completed purchase 2.

Technion states that its procurement division concluded a framework agreement with a selected supplier for Adobe Acrobat Pro and that activation codes could be delivered by email 3. The Technion page does not identify the supplier or establish a direct Adobe–Technion contract 3.

No public evidence identified of Adobe’s use of Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, or comparable Israeli-origin products in its own enterprise technology stack 2, 4, 5. No public evidence identified of a systems integrator or IT-outsourcing firm deploying Israeli-origin technology for Adobe 4, 5.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of Adobe’s use or procurement of Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, gait analysis, retail analytics, predictive policing, sentiment monitoring, social-media monitoring, or workforce-surveillance products 2, 4, 5. No public evidence identified that these technologies reach Adobe indirectly through a named managed-security provider or bundled enterprise suite 2, 4, 5.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

No public evidence identified that Adobe operates, leases, or colocates a data centre in Israel, or markets Israeli data-residency or sovereign-cloud services 2, 4. No public evidence identified that Adobe participates in Project Nimbus 2.

The identified Israeli government procurement record concerns ordinary Adobe software licences rather than cloud-compute, storage, AI/ML, or Nimbus services 2. No public evidence identified of Adobe contracts for data sovereignty, infrastructure resilience, or cloud services for Israeli state or military bodies 2, 4.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of an Adobe contract, partnership, or service agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, Israel Defense Forces, intelligence agencies, or another identified Israeli security body 2. The 2022 procurement record is not a Ministry of Defence tender and does not identify military use 2.

No public evidence identified that Adobe products were deployed for Israeli military, intelligence, law-enforcement surveillance, offensive-cyber, exploit, or digital-weapons purposes 2, 4. Adobe’s FY2025 subsidiary schedule identifies Adobe Systems Israel Ltd. as an Israeli-incorporated, wholly owned direct or indirect subsidiary, but does not state its function, customers, office location, employee count, R&D activity, or data-processing role 6.

No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate records of a named controlling principal’s personal or family-office investment, board role, or equity stake in an Israeli surveillance, cyber, AI, SIGINT, or military-technology company 7. This finding is limited to the proxy ownership, executive, and director disclosures reviewed and is not a comprehensive investment-record search 7.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

No public evidence identified that Adobe provided AI, machine-learning, computer-vision, or autonomous decision-support technology to Israeli state, military, or security bodies 2, 4. No public evidence identified that Adobe models or platforms were trained on, or given access to, civilian, intercepted, or surveillance-derived data from Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory 2, 7.

No public evidence identified of Adobe provision of autonomous target-generation, automated threat-detection, or autonomous tracking systems to Israeli forces 2, 4.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Adobe’s FY2025 subsidiary schedule confirms the existence of Adobe Systems Israel Ltd. as of November 28, 2025 6. The filing does not establish an Adobe-operated Israeli R&D centre, engineering office, innovation lab, accelerator programme, or the subsidiary’s operational remit 6.

No verified Adobe acquisition of an Israeli technology company, strategic investment in an Israeli startup, or Israeli venture-fund investment was identified in the bounded domain search. No public evidence identified of a significant Adobe patent, licensing, or co-development arrangement with Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute, or another Israeli-domiciled research institution 3, 4, 5.

Technion’s identified arrangement concerns procurement of Adobe Acrobat Pro rather than joint R&D or IP development 3. Adobe’s corporate filings identify Adobe Systems Federal LLC, Frame.io, Inc., MagentoTech Inc./LLC, Marketo, Inc., Workfront LLC, and regional entities across Europe and Asia-Pacific alongside Adobe Systems Israel Ltd. 6.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

The supplied document-scoped pre-scan found no Adobe mention in the listed OHCHR settlement-database updates, UN A/HRC/59/23, and specified NGO materials 6. This document-scoped result does not establish Adobe’s absence from all UN, civil-society, NGO, or academic material 6.

No public evidence identified in the bounded research of a published NGO or academic investigation specifically documenting Adobe technology provision to Israeli state institutions or operations in occupied territory. No public evidence identified of an organised Adobe-specific boycott, divestment, or sanctions campaign, or of a regulatory, export-control, sanctions, or legal proceeding concerning Adobe technology sales or services to Israeli state entities.

Adobe Inc. is a Delaware corporation and the SEC registrant for its consolidated group 8. Adobe’s 2026 proxy identifies Shantanu Narayen as Chair and CEO, while The Vanguard Group was the only disclosed beneficial owner above the 10% threshold as of February 17, 2026 7.

Footnotes

  1. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/approved-trust-list1.html ↩ ↩2

  2. https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/p/attachment/005056BF19AF1EDCB1ACC44EAB016149/%D7%97%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%AA%20%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%96 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16

  3. https://cis.technion.ac.il/news/acrobat-pro_purchase/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. https://www.adobe.com/howtobuy/buying-programs.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  5. https://partners.adobe.com/na/channelpartners/program/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634326000003/adbeex211fy25.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  7. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634326000043/adbe-20260227.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634326000003/adbe-20251128.htm ↩