CrowdStrike partners with tech giants to secure enterprise AI
CrowdStrike has announced a series of collaborative advancements with major technology companies to address the burgeoning security needs introduced by artificial intelligence in enterprise environments.
The company detailed new initiatives with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Intel, Meta, NVIDIA, and Salesforce, each designed to extend cybersecurity coverage and protection throughout different layers of AI deployment, including applications, models, agents, and operational workloads.
AI partners
CrowdStrike's work with AWS will integrate security across the entire AI lifecycle in the cloud, incorporating protections within Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, and AWS Marketplace. The partnership is intended to ensure security measures are embedded from the build stage through to deployment and runtime operations.
With Intel, the company is delivering Falcon Data Protection, optimised for Intel neural processing unit technology and utilised in Dell's lines of AI-ready PCs. This move is positioned to help enterprises protect data directly at its point of origin while supporting security in local environments where AI-enabled endpoints are increasingly commonplace.
CrowdStrike is also collaborating with Meta on CyberSOCEval, a benchmarking suite for assessing how AI systems address security threats in real-world operational contexts. These benchmarks are expected to play a significant role in guiding standards and improving security measures across AI adoption cycles.
On the hardware and cloud computing front, NVIDIA is partnering with CrowdStrike to secure the AI lifecycle for large language models (LLMs) and enterprise AI factories. The emphasis lies in providing security from model development all the way through to runtime and ongoing posture management using the Falcon platform in conjunction with NVIDIA's AI technologies.
Salesforce's partnership integrates Falcon Shield directly into the Salesforce Security Centre. Additionally, the Falcon Charlotte AI feature is being introduced into Agentforce for Security, aimed at enhancing protection for AI agents, workflows, and business applications. The integration seeks to bridge security and business teams with a unified set of tools to manage and respond to threats across the enterprise's software-as-a-service environment.
Securing the whole ecosystem
The extended ecosystem of protections is designed to address a wide array of risks stemming from the broad adoption of AI. These risks include potential theft of AI models, data poisoning, manipulation of autonomous agents, and the hijacking of cloud-based workloads. With threats evolving alongside AI, the need to shore up defensive measures across disparate components has become a focal point for enterprise-level cybersecurity strategies.
"Securing AI is not just about technology – it's about securing the full ecosystem where AI is built, deployed, and used," said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. "By embedding protection with the world's AI leaders, we're giving enterprises the confidence to adopt AI, innovate with AI, and secure AI, all while delivering revolutionary outcomes."
CrowdStrike's Falcon platform is positioned as supporting these efforts by delivering unified protection across the AI stack. This coverage includes safeguarding the environments and models powering AI, preventing unauthorised data transfer from endpoints and cloud workloads, discovering unapproved AI applications, and securing autonomous agents which are increasingly responsible for operational tasks in business software environments.
The company's perspective is that the distribution and integration of AI technologies extend beyond traditional network perimeters. As a result, effective security solutions must be embedded not only in the cloud but also at the endpoints where AI tools and agents are adopted and used daily.
Working alongside companies referred to as driving forces in the AI sector, CrowdStrike aims to become, in its own words, the "cybersecurity centre of the AI ecosystem." In framing its corporate strategy, the company has expressed intent to address the most recent and multi-faceted threats as business processes shift under AI-driven transformation.
The partnerships and solutions announced reflect CrowdStrike's continued investment in supporting both the security requirements and operational demands of businesses entering or scaling in the AI sector, while providing teams with the resources required to detect, respond, and guard against new classes of threat targeting AI infrastructure and usage.
