Cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike recently announced the integration of Falcon Cloud Security with NVIDIA universal LLM NIM microservices and NeMo Safety to provide lifecycle protection for LLMs to enterprise AI factories.
New agreement marks expansion of security within Enterprise AI Factories
Through this integration, CrowdStrike’s protection for Enterprise AI Factories with NVIDIA has expanded to enable customers to safely run and scale diverse LLM applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
The CrowdStrike Falcon platform will secure every stage of AI innovation, from build, to runtime, to posture management, powered by NVIDIA.
“CrowdStrike pioneered AI-native cybersecurity, and we’re defining how AI is secured across the software development lifecycle,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike, in a statement. “This latest collaboration with NVIDIA brings our leadership to the front lines of cloud-based AI– where LLMs are deployed, run, and scaled. Together we’re giving organizations the confidence to innovate with AI, securely and at speed, from code to cloud.”
NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory, combined with CrowdStrike security, can be utilized by organizations to build, deploy, and run AI applications and LLMs using hardware and software. At the same time, NVIDIA universal LLM NIM microservice container streamlines the move from development to production by packaging a range of open and specialized LLMs as microservices for fast, scalable deployment for high-performance inference across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
“As AI becomes fundamental to enterprises, security must evolve to match its scale and speed,” said Justin Boitano, vice president of Enterprise AI Software at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA and CrowdStrike are working together to help enterprises protect AI workloads across the entire lifecycle– from the intelligence forged in AI factories to deployment with NIM microservices.”
Catching up with Daniel Bernard
To gain a deeper insight into this new integration, Channel Insider spoke to Bernard about what it means for customers and AI security.
Through this integration into NVIDIA’s universal NIM, Bernard explained, customers are enabled to protect nearly all variations of the latest models the day they are released, from before they’re deployed and while they’re running. It utilizes the same Falcon agent that secures their cloud workloads, identities, and endpoints, without introducing new tools or complexity.
“Most cloud security vendors are bolting AI protection onto fragmented stacks,” said Bernard. “We’ve built it directly into the Falcon platform. That unified approach is critical as attackers increasingly move across domains– AI is not part of the attack surface, and it needs to be protected like everything else.”
This partnership also reflects CrowdStrike’s mission to lead in AI-native cybersecurity and prevent breaches. Bernard says that the organization believes AI should be at the core of how they protect customers, as well as what they protect. The partnership is an extension of their mission to utilize AI to protect AI in real-time across the cloud, stopping breaches.
As far as what this means for existing CrowdStrike customers, because there are no newly added tools or complexity, nothing changes except for getting more protection.
“This integration runs on the same Falcon agent, console, and workflows customers already use,” said Bernard. “There’s no added complexity or overhead– unlike most new AI tools, this doesn’t require a separate console or process. It’s the same unified platform, now securing a new critical surface.”
CrowdStrike is continuing to deepen the integration with NVIDIA and expand protection across more parts of the AI lifecycle from model training to inference in production.
Bernard says that this partnership will move them closer to a future that will see AI security become a foundational component to enterprise security and needs to be delivered in real-time, infrastructure-aware, and unified across domains.
“This partnership gives organizations real-time protection at the infrastructure layer, where AI systems are most vulnerable and where our OverWatch capability is adapting to new tradecraft against AI systems to protect customers from novel attacks the first time,” Bernard mentioned. “Then all our customers get the visibility and detection to catch threats while they’re happening– not after the fact– and the tools to respond before attacks cause real damage.”
CrowdStrike continues to deliver advanced security for channel partners, and AI is a part of that equation. Read more about their expanded partnership with Vectra AI to bundle network detection and response with endpoint protection.