VAST Data and CrowdStrike Partner to Advance Cybersecurity Across the AI Operating System
VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, and CrowdStrike announced new integrations that will bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity across the infrastructure, data, and AI workloads supporting production AI.
Together, VAST and CrowdStrike are integrating security across the systems running AI, access to the proprietary data that fuels it, and the data pipelines preparing that information for AI applications, according to the companies.
As enterprises operationalize AI, these environments are becoming increasingly interconnected, creating new security challenges as sensitive data moves between infrastructure, users, models, and agents.
By combining VAST’s visibility into data activity with CrowdStrike’s industry-leading threat intelligence, detection, and response, organizations will be able to identify risk with greater context and investigate potential threats across their AI environments, said the vendors.
VAST and CrowdStrike are integrating the Falcon platform with the VAST AI OS to:
- Better Protect the Infrastructure Powering AI: The VAST AI OS is deeply integrating its data infrastructure platform with native support for the Falcon sensor, bringing CrowdStrike protection directly into the VAST environments supporting mission-critical enterprise AI workloads.
- Turn Data Access Telemetry into Actionable Security Intelligence: VAST audit telemetry will integrate directly with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, combining detailed visibility into how users and machines access enterprise data with CrowdStrike’s threat intelligence and detection capabilities.
- Embed AI-Native Protection Directly into Data Pipelines: Falcon AIDR will integrate with VAST InsightEngine, leveraging the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, to bring threat detection into the pipelines preparing enterprise data for AI.
“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,” said Renen Hallak, founder and CEO at VAST Data. “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.”
The VAST AI OS spans the infrastructure managing enterprise data and the workflows that make that data usable for AI. InsightEngine ingests, processes and enriches unstructured data for use by models and agents, providing a natural integration point for CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR.
“AI is reshaping the enterprise, and security has to extend everywhere AI operates,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “By bringing CrowdStrike into the VAST AI Operating System, we’re extending Falcon protection across the infrastructure, data and AI pipelines powering the next generation of enterprise AI. VAST Data is one of the most innovative AI infrastructure software companies on the market—secured by CrowdStrike.”
Native CrowdStrike Falcon sensor support for VAST is certified and available now. VAST integrations with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon AIDR are available in private preview.
For more information about this news, visit www.vastdata.com or www.crowdstrike.com.