CrowdStrike and VAST Data announce deeper integrations

CrowdStrike and AI operating system VAST Data have expanded their partnership with integrations aimed at providing enterprise-grade cybersecurity for the workloads supporting production AI.

The companies are integrating CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform with the VAST AI OS to introduce AI detection and response capabilities to the operating system. The agreement paves the way for deeper integrations between VAST’s AI infrastructure platform and the Falcon Next Gen SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and Falcon Guardian platforms.

The companies say VAST audit telemetry will integrate directly with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to provide joint customers with visibility into how users and machines access enterprise data with CrowdStrike’s threat intelligence and detection capabilities.

Meanwhile Falcon Guardian will integrate with the VAST InsightEngine, which uses the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, to enable Guardian users to identify sensitive or risky information and uncover potentially harmful activity before downstream AI systems are compromised. CrowdStrike will be able to detect threats such as prompt injection, jailbreak attempts and other malicious activity targeting the AI operating system.

VAST Data founder and CEO Renen Hallak said security for AI needs to evolve.

“The security boundary for AI can’t stop at the infrastructure. Enterprises need to understand who is accessing their data, how that data is moving through AI pipelines and what is happening when applications and models interact with it,” he said. “Together with CrowdStrike, we’re bringing security across each of those layers. By combining the VAST AI Operating System with the intelligence of the Falcon platform, customers can build AI environments where security is part of the architecture from the foundation through the AI pipeline.”

CrowdStrike and VAST Data entered a partnership agreement in March with the goal of securing the enterprise AI stack.

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