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DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-07-09
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Digital Audit: HP

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

HP Inc. partnered with Tel Aviv-headquartered Deep Instinct beginning May 2019 to embed its deep-learning malware- and ransomware-prevention engine directly into HP Sure Sense, pre-installed on HP EliteBook and ZBook business laptop lines and marketed on a greater than 99.9% detection rate 123. This is a named, non-peripheral, embedded component of HP’s flagship commercial endpoint-security offering rather than a general IT vendor relationship 1. No public evidence identified confirming whether the Deep Instinct integration remains active on current HP EliteBook/ZBook product lines as of 2024–2026, or whether it has since been modified, rebranded, or discontinued.

HPE’s Aruba Networks subsidiary acquired Axis Security, a Tel Aviv-R&D/San Mateo-headquartered Israeli cloud Security Services Edge (SSE) startup, on 2 March 2023, in a transaction reported at “hundreds of millions of dollars” 4. Axis’s SSE technology was folded into Aruba’s SD-WAN and network-firewall product lines to build a unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform, making the acquired Israeli technology core, embedded infrastructure within HPE’s ongoing networking portfolio rather than a peripheral holding 4.

HP Inc.’s FY2024 Form 10-K describes the company’s global personal-systems, printing, and enterprise hardware and services businesses without any Israel-specific segment disclosure, consistent with HP Inc.’s stated position that it does not itself operate data-center or server businesses post-2015 5.

No public evidence identified of a direct HP Inc. or HPE licensing, subscription, or integration relationship with CyberArk, Wiz, SentinelOne, Check Point, Nice, Verint, Claroty, or Palo Alto Networks; available sourcing surfaced only third-party-to-third-party partnerships among those vendors themselves, with no HP or HPE party named. No public evidence identified of named systems integrators or IT-transformation consultancies mandating or recommending Israeli-origin technology specifically within HP engagements, distinct from HP’s own direct vendor relationships documented above.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of HP’s own retail or loss-prevention product lines incorporating Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometrics, or behavioral-analytics technology from vendors such as Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, or Trax; available sourcing on these vendors described only their independent deployments with other retailers, with no HP nexus found.

No public evidence identified of HP use of Israeli-origin predictive-policing, sentiment-analysis, or workforce-surveillance tools, and No public evidence identified of Israeli biometric or surveillance technology reaching HP customers indirectly via managed-service bundling.

HP’s own historically supplied biometric product is the Basel System, a fingerprint-, hand-scan-, retinal-scan- and facial-data-based access-control system that HP/EDS Israel built and maintained for the Israeli state at West Bank and Gaza military checkpoints; this is documented in detail under Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships below 678910.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

HP’s Anyware Manager Enterprise product documentation lists “Israel Central” as a supported data-residency region within its Middle East geography, meaning HP’s commercial virtual-desktop customers can explicitly route and store session data through Israel-located data-center infrastructure at their own request; this is reflected in current, live product documentation 11.

No public evidence identified that HP Inc. or HPE is a named participant in Project Nimbus, the Google/Amazon-led Israeli government cloud-computing consortium.

HPE was reportedly selected in July 2024 to lead a new Israeli military server-farm project, supplying server hardware and managing selection of the construction contractor for a reportedly underground facility 1213. Separately, a related HPE-connected initiative was reported to be building or operating a large commercial/AI-oriented underground server farm in Netanya, recruiting customers for cloud services on the site 1213. The precise announcement date of the military project relative to the International Court of Justice’s 19 July 2024 Advisory Opinion could not be independently pinned down from available sourcing.

HPE’s long-running Itanium-server supply to Israel’s national biometric Population Registry, together with the HPE-led military server-farm project described above, constitutes documented data-residency and infrastructure-resilience provision to Israeli state and defense bodies 14151213.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

Basel System (biometric checkpoint access control). Hewlett-Packard/EDS Israel served as system integrator for the “Basel System,” a biometric access-control system (fingerprints, hand scans, retinal scans, facial data) deployed at more than 20 West Bank and Gaza military checkpoints. It was originally tendered to EDS Israel in October 1999, financed in part via the U.S.-backed 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and maintained by HP/HPE under a contract renewed to run through 31 December 2017; Israel’s Ministry of Defense told Who Profits the system was retired at the end of 2016 678910.

Israeli military IT and server infrastructure. HP(E) became the first private contractor to administer Israeli military IT infrastructure, beginning with the Israeli Navy in 2006 - reported by AFSC to support enforcement of the Gaza naval blockade - and expanded in 2009 to “virtualize” the entire Israeli military’s IT infrastructure 8910. HP Inc. was reportedly the exclusive PC provider to the Israeli military from 2009 to approximately 2019, financed via the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program, while HPE was the exclusive military server provider from 2011 to 2017 before losing that bid to Cisco 8910. HPE returned as a lead vendor on a new Israeli military server-farm project reported in July 2024 1213.

Israel Police. HPE holds recurring server and data-center maintenance contracts with the Israel Police - NIS 366,000 (2017–2018) and NIS 4 million (2021–2024) - renewed in January 2024 for a further NIS 4 million through December 2026 1415.

Israel Prison Service. HP/HPE developed the “Kidma” prisoner-records, management and intelligence system under a 2007 contract that was later terminated after HP failed to deliver, but HP(E) retained server-maintenance and staff-training contracts with the Prison Service continuing at least through January 2021 8910. Who Profits’ current profile lists an active HPE central-server-farm/backup and SAN-maintenance contract for the Prison Service running March 2025 to February 2026, worth NIS 445,000 15.

Israel Ministry of Interior - biometric Population Registry. HP/Compaq/EDS/HPE has supplied and maintained biometric population-registry infrastructure since the 1990s–2000s (the “Aviv” system, then the “Arbel” biometric pilot from 2008), producing biometric ID cards including for West Bank settlers and East Jerusalem Palestinian residents. The original 2008 Ministry of Interior contract, worth NIS 230 million, has been repeatedly extended; a May 2025 extension - exempted from competitive tender - runs the HPE Itanium-server supply through the end of May 2028, worth NIS 3,129,750 71415. Secondary reporting on the UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 report states the registry system is being phased out in favor of an IBM-built “Eitan” system, with HPE’s Israeli subsidiary continuing to provide servers during the transition 16.

Rolling Stone system / Beit El Civil Administration. DXC Technology - HP/HPE’s 2017 spin-off - was reported running a computerization project based at the Civil Administration headquarters at the Beit El military base (Area C, West Bank), tied to the “Rolling Stone” Palestinian population-registry and permit system used at checkpoints; this obligation traces directly to HP/HPE’s 2015 corporate split and DXC’s 2017 spin-off, though DXC is now a legally distinct, no-longer-HP-affiliated entity following its 2022 divestment of its Israeli IT business 7817.

No public evidence identified of HP or HPE developing, selling, or maintaining offensive cyber tools, zero-day exploits, or digital weapons systems for any actor, Israeli or otherwise.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

The only documented AI system with a specific, named Israeli-origin nexus in HP’s product line is Deep Instinct’s deep-learning malware-prevention engine embedded in HP Sure Sense on commercial EliteBook and ZBook laptops 12. This is general-purpose endpoint-security AI sold commercially worldwide, not a system provided specifically to Israeli state or military bodies, and no targeting or kinetic function has been identified.

No public evidence identified of HP or HPE providing AI/ML, computer-vision, or autonomous decision-support systems specifically to Israeli state, military, or security bodies, distinct from the general commercial hardware and server infrastructure documented under Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships.

No public evidence identified of HP or HPE AI models being trained on, or given access to, civilian population data, intercepted communications, or surveillance-derived datasets originating from Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories; HP(E)‘s role in the population-registry and biometric-database systems described above is as an infrastructure/storage provider, not as a trainer of its own AI products on that data.

No public evidence identified of HP or HPE providing autonomous target-generation, automated threat-detection, or autonomous-tracking systems to Israeli military or security forces.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

HP Indigo was founded in Israel in 1977 (as Indigo N.V.) and acquired by HP for $829 million in 2001. HP Indigo’s global R&D and headquarters remain in Nes Ziona, Israel, with a manufacturing and ink-production plant in Kiryat Gat employing an estimated 2,500–3,000 workers and generating roughly $1 billion in annual exports from Israel; the division continues to launch new digital-print systems, including at a Tel Aviv product event 1819.

HP Labs Israel was established in 1994 on the Technion campus in Haifa (originally as the “Israel Science Center”), focused on imaging, multimedia, and software research. No public evidence identified of its current 2024–2026 staffing, budget, or focus areas.

HPE’s March 2023 acquisition of Axis Security is the clearest recent (post-2020) acquisition of an Israeli technology company by an HP-lineage entity, now integrated into Aruba/HPE’s networking and security portfolio on an ongoing basis 4.

HP Tech Ventures, HP Inc.’s corporate venture-capital arm established in 2016, operates with a presence in Tel Aviv alongside Palo Alto, investing in early-stage Israeli-origin startups across sustainability, generative AI, edge computing, and 3D printing/Industry 4.0, with a portfolio that includes the Israeli-linked company Copprint 20. No public evidence identified of surveillance- or defense-sector investments within this venture arm; its disclosed portfolio focus is commercial and industrial.

A former HP/HPE-lineage R&D center operated in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, established in 2006 by EDS, continued under HP following EDS’s 2008 acquisition, operated by HPE from 2015–2017, then by DXC Technology from 2017–2022, and since 2022 by Ness (Hilan Group) following Ness’s acquisition of DXC’s Israeli entity (EntServ Israel) 17. The direct HP/HPE nexus at this facility ended in 2017.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Who Profits, AFSC Investigate, BDS Movement, and The Mapping Project all maintain active, dated campaign and research pages specifically documenting HP/HPE’s historical and ongoing Israel-related contracts, including the Basel System, the population registry, and police, prison, and military IT infrastructure 6714815910212223.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s report “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” (A/HRC/59/23, advance edited version, 30 June 2025) is reported, via secondary sourcing, to state that HP has “long enabled Israel’s apartheid systems, supplying technology to COGAT, the prison service and police,” that HPE maintained the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority database with its Israeli subsidiary still providing servers during the transition to a replacement system, and that HP’s 2015 split into HPE and HP Inc. created “opaque business structures” obscuring the roles of seven remaining Israeli subsidiaries 162425. HP/HPE is also referenced in a companion database compiling companies named in the Special Rapporteur’s report 26. A direct review of the OHCHR HRC res. 31/36 settlement-business database (30 June 2023 update) did not surface a readable “Hewlett,” “HP,” or “DXC” match in the extractable text, though technical parsing limitations mean this could not be treated as a confirmed absence 27.

Boycott and divestment campaigns citing HP have been documented since at least 2012, when then-UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk called for boycotting several companies including Hewlett-Packard over settlement and occupation ties. Formal institutional divestment or boycott actions specifically citing HP include Unite the Union (UK, July 2019), FNV (Netherlands, April 2019), the Students Federation of India (June 2018), Dublin City Council (April 2018), the University of Michigan (November 2017), Swedish bank SEB (June 2017), the Presbyterian Church General Assembly (June 2014), Friends Fiduciary/Quakers (2012), and UC Berkeley (April 2013), among others through 2019 8910. A BDS Movement campaign update dated 12 December 2023 states that HP Indigo, HP Inc.’s Israeli subsidiary, “provides products and services to the offices of Benjamin Netanyahu and Betzalel Smotrich”; this specific claim was not independently corroborated by a second primary source 22.

HP Inc.’s 2021 newsroom statement, responding to BDS-related social-media claims, describes them as “misinformation,” states the company “does not take political sides,” asserts adherence to “the highest standards of ethical business conduct,” and specifically clarifies that, post-2015, “HP Inc. does not develop, sell or own technologies or provide any related services…pertaining to data centers or servers” - directing scrutiny of hardware, server, and data-center contracts toward HPE rather than HP Inc. 28. No public evidence identified of an HP Inc. or HPE response specific to the 2025 Albanese report.

HPE is named as a defendant in a $34.5 billion U.S. civil lawsuit in the Al-Tamimi v. Adelson line of litigation, led by Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi and others, alleging civil conspiracy to expel non-Jews from East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza, along with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide claims; the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reportedly revived the underlying case, allowing lower courts to rule on these claims. No public evidence identified confirming the current docket status or HPE-specific pleadings in this litigation as of 2025–2026.

In March 2006, HP fired 15 senior executives of its Israeli unit, including CEO Gil Rosenfeld, amid allegations that the unit illegally exported roughly 30,000 servers - about half of Israel’s annual server imports, valued near $50 million - to benefit from price and exchange-rate arbitrage; HP Israel’s server sales fell 40% year-on-year the following month amid the fallout 2930. A lengthy investigation followed, and Rosenfeld was ultimately cleared with no evidence found against the executives, though he left the company 2930. This was an export/gray-market compliance matter rather than an Israel-state-sales sanctions action. In July 2017, HPE separately agreed to pay Israel’s tax authority approximately $450 million in a dispute related to a 2006 acquisition 31. HP’s public response to a separate, non-Israel-specific export-control diversion matter concerning Russia and Belarus outlines the company’s broader export-compliance framework 32. No public evidence identified of formal export-control, sanctions, or regulator findings specifically concerning HP’s technology sales to Israeli state or security entities, distinct from the 2006 internal gray-market matter described above.

HP Inc.’s board of directors as of the FY2025 proxy filing includes Chip Bergh (Chair), Enrique Lores (CEO), Bruce Broussard, Stacy Brown-Philpot, Stephanie A. Burns, Mary Anne Citrino, Richard L. Clemmer, Fama Francisco, Gianluca Pettiti, and Songyee Yoon 333435. No public evidence identified of personal equity stakes, board roles, or investments by any named HP Inc. director in Israeli surveillance, cyber, AI, SIGINT, or military-technology firms.

HPE’s board of directors as of its FY2025/2026 proxy filing includes Antonio Neri (President/CEO, Chair), Robert M. Calderoni, Regina E. Dugan (former DARPA director; former Google ATAP and Facebook Building 8 lead), George R. Kurtz (CEO, CrowdStrike), Frank A. D’Amelio, Bethany J. Mayer, Charles H. Noski, and Jean M. Hobby 363738. No public evidence identified of direct personal investment by any named HPE director in Israeli defense or surveillance-technology firms; Dugan’s DARPA, Google ATAP, and Facebook Building 8 background reflects U.S. defense-adjacent technology leadership generally, with no Israel-specific tie identified.

End Notes

Footnotes

  1. https://www.deepinstinct.com/news/hp-collaborates-with-deep-instinct-to-roll-out-ai-powered-malware-protection-for-next-generation-hp-elitebook-and-zbook-pcs ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-hp-teams-with-deep-instinct-on-cybersecurity-1001287417 ↩ ↩2

  3. https://www.deepinstinct.com/news/hp-transforms-pc-security-with-ai-driven-hp-suresense ↩

  4. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rk11mwd0ai ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000004721724000080/hpq-20241031.htm ↩

  6. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/87 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/127 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  8. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/137 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  9. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/hp ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  10. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/hewlett-packard ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  11. https://anyware.hp.com/web-help/anyware_manager_enterprise/ame-overview/ame-regions/ ↩

  12. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-former-microsoft-israel-head-in-netanya-server-farm-project-1001483092 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. https://ned-dc.com/former-microsoft-israel-head-in-netanya-server-farm-project/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/157 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3774 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  16. https://bdsmovement.net/news/naming-complicity ↩ ↩2

  17. https://www.whoprofits.org/updates/dxc-technology-divests-from-its-israeli-it-business/ ↩ ↩2

  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Indigo_Division ↩

  19. https://www.inplantimpressions.com/article/hp-announces-10-new-digital-print-systems-tel-aviv-event-including-six-indigo-systems/ ↩

  20. https://hptechventures.com/team/ ↩

  21. https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp ↩

  22. https://bdsmovement.net/BoycottHP-GazaGenocide-Update ↩ ↩2

  23. https://mapliberation.org/plain/entities/HewlettPackardEnterprise.html ↩

  24. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf ↩

  25. https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur ↩

  26. https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Database-of-Companies-Named-in-the-UN-Special-Rapporteurs-Report-on-the-Economy-of-Occupation-and-Genocide.pdf ↩

  27. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩

  28. https://www.hp.com/us-en/newsroom/blogs/2021/hp-statement-on-boycott-divestment-sanctions-campaign.html ↩

  29. https://www.eetimes.com/update-export-controversy-rocks-hps-israeli-unit/ ↩ ↩2

  30. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2006-05-24/ty-article/hp-israels-april-server-sales-tumbled-40-yoy-after-gray-export-scandal/0000017f-e7cd-df2c-a1ff-ffdd51980000 ↩ ↩2

  31. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2017-07-20/ty-article/hpe-to-pay-israel-450m-in-tax-over-2006-acquisition/0000017f-f625-d318-afff-f7677f340000 ↩

  32. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/hp-response-2/ ↩

  33. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000004721725000014/hpinc2025proxy_courtesy.pdf ↩

  34. https://www.hp.com/us-en/newsroom/press-releases/2025/hp-inc-names-gianluca-pettiti-to-board-of-directors.html ↩

  35. https://www.hp.com/us-en/newsroom/press-releases/2025/hp-inc-names-songyee-yoon-to-board-of-directors.html ↩

  36. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559026000019/hpe-20260210.htm ↩

  37. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2022/09/hewlett-packard-enterprise-names-regina-e-dugan-technology-leader-and-former-darpa-director-to-board-of-directors.html ↩

  38. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2025/07/hewlett-packard-enterprise-announces-board-enhancements-to-support-ongoing-transformation-and-drive-shareholder-value.html ↩