During this week’s Nvidia GTC 2024 conference, several cybersecurity companies announced their partnerships with Nvidia to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing to enhance cybersecurity capabilities and defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
These cybersecurity-related partnerships aim to achieve goals including securing AI infrastructure and workloads, AI-powered threat detection and response, unlocking generative AI (genAI) for cybersecurity insights and enabling high-performance AI and processing for security.
Check Point partners with Nvidia to secure AI cloud data centersThe collaboration between Check Point Software Technologies and Nvidia focuses on enhancing the security of AI cloud infrastructure.
The security vendor introduced its new AI Cloud Protect solution. Engineered with Nvida's BlueField data processing unit (DPU) that power a new class of AI cloud data centers and the Nvidia DOCA software framework, the solution is designed to bolster threat prevention capabilities at both the network and host levels.
AI provides great benefits across industries, but it has also introduced new attack vectors specifically targeting AI, including backdooring AI models, data exfiltration and denial of service attacks. These threats compromise the integrity and security of AI systems, while also eroding the foundational trust in AI operations and potentially affecting other aspects of the data center, Check Point noted.
The vendor's AI Cloud Protect aims to offer out-of-the-box security without impacting AI performance, empower organizations to efficiently shield against AI-specific threats, such as model inversion and model theft, and facilitate scalable easy deployment across diverse AI environments.
CrowdStrike advances cybersecurity with genAICrowdStrike announced the delivery of Nvidia's AI computing services on the security vendor’s Falcon XDR platform to enable the development of genAI model creation and large language model- (LLM-) powered applications to the two companies' customers for advanced threat hunting, anomaly detection and proactive defense against emerging cyber threats.
CrowdStrike pairs NVIDIA's accelerated computing, NVIDIA Morpheus and NIM microservices with the Falcon platform's contextual data to allow customers to solve novel and domain-specific use cases. Those use cases include AI-powered applications that can process petabytes of logs to improve threat hunting, detect supply chain attacks, identify anomalies in user behavior and proactively defend against emerging exploits and vulnerabilities, the company claims.
“Cybersecurity is inherently a data problem — the more data that enterprises can process, the more events they can detect and address,” said Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang in a statement. “Pairing Nvidia accelerated computing and generative AI with CrowdStrike cybersecurity can give enterprises unprecedented visibility into threats to help them better protect their businesses.”
Cohesity powers AI-driven cybersecurity insightsCohesity teamed up with Nvidia to integrate Nvidia NIM microservices and AI Enterprise into the Cohesity Gaia platform.
The data security and management vendor last week launched its AI-powered enterprise search assistant, dubbed Cohesity Gaia. The tool allows “have a conversation with their data,” which brings retrieval augmented generation (RAG) AI and LLMs to backup data stored in the Cohesity Data Cloud, the vendor touted.
Cohesity claims the integration of Cohesity Gaia with Nvidia AI Enterprise and NIM will allow customers and partners to create domain-specific and performant genAI models based on the customers’ Cohesity-managed data, using NVIDIA NIM; query their data via a generative AI assistant to gain insights from their data; leverage Cohesity’s secondary data; and add genAI intelligence to data backups and archives.
“Generative AI is a computing platform shift that’s opened a floodgate of new productivity opportunities for enterprises,” said Huang. “We’re working with Cohesity to enable businesses to gain greater value from their data without compromising security or management flexibility.”
The collaboration between the two companies extends beyond just technology integration, as Nvidia has also become a new investor in Cohesity through the company's latest fundraising efforts.