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TECHx
12-06-2025
- Business
- TECHx
CrowdStrike Secures AI with NVIDIA LLM Integration
Home » Emerging technologies » Cyber Security » CrowdStrike Secures AI with NVIDIA LLM Integration CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has announced the integration of Falcon® Cloud Security with NVIDIA's universal LLM NIM microservices and NeMo Safety. This collaboration delivers full lifecycle protection for artificial intelligence (AI) and over 100,000 large language models (LLMs). The company revealed that the integration expands CrowdStrike's protection for Enterprise AI Factories. With NVIDIA's support, customers can now securely run and scale various LLM applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments from day one. According to CrowdStrike, the Falcon® platform now secures every stage of AI innovation, from build and runtime to posture management. Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike, stated that the company is defining how AI is secured across the software development lifecycle. He noted that this collaboration with NVIDIA brings CrowdStrike's cybersecurity leadership to cloud-based AI environments. Justin Boitano, Vice President of Enterprise AI Software at NVIDIA, added that security must match AI's growing scale and speed. He said NVIDIA and CrowdStrike are helping enterprises protect AI workloads from development to deployment. Enterprises can now rely on the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory combined with CrowdStrike security. This includes the tools to build, deploy, and run AI and LLM applications efficiently and securely. The NVIDIA LLM NIM microservice container was reported to simplify the shift from development to production. It packages open and specialized LLMs as microservices, enabling high-performance inference across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This includes systems with AI sovereignty needs. CrowdStrike reported that as LLMs enter production, AI risks increase. These risks include data poisoning, tampering, and sensitive data leakage. The Falcon platform now integrates with NVIDIA NIM to deliver end-to-end protection. It monitors runtime behavior and provides AI-driven detection and response. These are trained on trillions of daily security events and frontline intelligence. In addition, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security offers pre-deployment protection through several capabilities: AI-SPM and AI Model Scanning Shadow AI detection These tools identify risks before models are live and deliver threat intelligence. This intelligence integrates with NVIDIA's NeMo Safety workflows, enhancing the security of foundation models. Furthermore, services like CrowdStrike AI Red Team and Falcon® Adversary OverWatch are available to help secure every stage of AI development and deployment. Together, CrowdStrike and NVIDIA are enabling secure, scalable innovation from code to cloud.
Business Wire
11-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
CrowdStrike Delivers Full Lifecycle Protection for LLMs to Enterprise AI Factories with NVIDIA
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced the integration of Falcon® Cloud Security with NVIDIA universal LLM NIM microservices and NeMo Safety, delivering full lifecycle protection for AI and over 100,000 large language models (LLMs) in collaboration with NVIDIA. Expanding CrowdStrike's protection for Enterprise AI Factories with NVIDIA, this new integration enables customers to safely run and scale diverse LLM applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments from day one. From build, to runtime, to posture management, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform is securing every stage of AI innovation 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. '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.' 'As AI becomes fundamental to enterprises, security must evolve to match its scale and speed,' said Justin Boitano, vice president, 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.' Enterprises can rely on NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory with CrowdStrike security for the hardware and software to build, deploy, and run AI applications and LLMs with speed and control. NVIDIA universal LLM NIM microservice container streamlines the move from development to production by packaging a broad range of open and specialized LLMs as microservices for fast, scalable deployment for high performance inference across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including those with AI sovereignty requirements. As LLMs move into production, AI risk grows, exposing models to risks like data poisoning, tampering, and sensitive data leakage. The Falcon platform integrates with NVIDIA NIM to deliver end-to-end protection, monitoring runtime behavior and powering AI-driven detection and response trained on trillions of daily security events and frontline intelligence. With Falcon Cloud Security, organizations gain pre-deployment protection through capabilities like AI-SPM, AI Model Scanning, and Shadow AI detection, identifying and mitigating risks before models go live. These capabilities also deliver threat intelligence that integrates with NVIDIA's NeMo Safety workflows, helping enterprises assess and strengthen the security of foundation models as they scale new AI applications. Combined with expert services like CrowdStrike AI Red Team and Falcon® Adversary OverWatch, the Falcon platform secures every stage of AI innovation – from code to cloud, across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. About CrowdStrike CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world's most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value. CrowdStrike: We stop breaches. © 2025 CrowdStrike, Inc. All rights reserved. CrowdStrike and CrowdStrike Falcon are marks owned by CrowdStrike, Inc. and are registered in the United States and other countries. CrowdStrike owns other trademarks and service marks and may use the brands of third parties to identify their products and services.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Accenture Teams with NVIDIA to Advance AI Agenda for Europe with AI Refinery for Sovereign and Agentic AI
First-of-its-kind platform champions data sovereignty and operational resilience with physical AI and supports competitiveness in the path to agentic AI Accenture and NVIDIA achieve momentum with European organizations such as KION AG, L'Oreal-backed Noli, and Nestlé PARIS, June 11, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GTC EMEA 2025 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has expanded its AI Refinery™ platform for Europe with new sovereign and agentic capabilities to help European organizations maintain control over critical data and apply innovative AI solutions. "AI provides a unique opportunity for Europe to reinvent its economy, drive productivity, resilience and competitiveness, and support its future growth," said Mauro Macchi, Accenture's CEO for Europe, Middle East and Africa. "The expansion of our AI Refinery platform enables European organizations to accelerate the deployment of AI agents, while addressing their sovereignty concerns. This is particularly crucial for the public sector and critical infrastructure industries, such as energy, telecommunications and defense." "Sovereign AI is unlocking extraordinary new possibilities while preserving the integrity of national data, infrastructure, and cultural identity across Europe," said Justin Boitano, vice president, Enterprise Software Products at NVIDIA. "Together, NVIDIA and Accenture are working with leaders across the public sector, energy, telecom and the continent's industrial core—from manufacturing to retail—to build a resilient, innovative future powered by AI." New sovereign AI architecture capabilities "As AI adoption accelerates across industry and society, there is a growing need for management and operations across various elements of the AI stack, from infrastructure to models and applications, including data management," said Karthik Narain, group chief executive – Technology and CTO, Accenture. "To address this, we're providing a platform-based approach with AI Refinery for sovereignty, enabling organizations to develop and deploy AI capabilities – leveraging their own cloud infrastructure and adhering to data residency and security requirements with management and observability capabilities baked in – to drive new value and growth while maintaining control in a fast-moving market." Accenture estimates Europe will account for up to 30% of the global sovereign AI market by 2030. To address this demand, Accenture's new sovereign AI architecture builds on the success of Accenture and NVIDIA in deploying one of the world's first comprehensive AI stacks for Indosat. Part of AI Refinery, which is built on NVIDIA Enterprise AI, the sovereign AI architecture has solutions that cater to different market needs and priorities, offered as-a-service. This includes configurable AI models tailored to national languages and contexts; a development and deployment platform that is hosted and managed within a nation's jurisdiction; and secure, easy-to-customize solutions to meet the unique needs of the public sector and critical infrastructure industries. Digital sovereignty often calls for organizations to adopt controls and provisions aligned to sector-specific needs. For example, Accenture is working with a public utility in Europe to deploy sovereign GPUs as-a-service to ensure dedicated AI compute resources remain secured within its national borders. Physical AI enhances operational resilience in manufacturing Manufacturers across Europe are pushing to optimize their production, warehouse, and supply chain operations. The industrial sector is particularly strategic for Europe as it accounts for roughly a quarter of Europe's GDP. With its AI Refinery, Accenture is helping clients implement AI-powered robotics, simulation and digital twins and adapt ways of working with human workers to effectively reinvent warehouse, logistics and manufacturing to drive efficiencies and lower costs. Today, Accenture also introduced a physical AI software development kit (SDK) that can understand video and image segmentation based on predefined parameters or natural language queries by leveraging NVIDIA Metropolis and the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization (VSS).KION has partnered with Accenture and NVIDIA to explore these capabilities to enhance safety, productivity, and quality control in manufacturing and warehouse automation. AI fueling competitiveness and growth Accenture and NVIDIA have continued to demonstrate how AI can help European organizations create a competitive edge by building a foundation for continuous reinvention and future growth. Noli (No One Like I) the first, AI-powered multi-brand marketplace startup founded and backed by L'Oréal Groupe, has teamed with Accenture and NVIDIA to reinvent how people discover and shop beauty products by addressing the number one pain point for beauty shoppers - the overwhelming volume of products and lack of unbiased, often conflicting advice in the market. With AI Refinery, Noli acts as a Beauty Advisor, cutting through the noise, using powerful AI diagnostics and tools built from over one million face scans and analysis of thousands of product formulations, to decode each user's beauty profile and to provide product recommendations to help them make confident, right-for-them choices, which are then delivered to their doorstep. Nestlé is launching a new AI-powered in-house service that will create high-quality product content at scale for eCommerce and digital media channels. Developed in partnership with Accenture, this new content service is based on digital twins and powered by NVIDIA Omniverse platform, providing exact 3D virtual replicas of physical products. Product packaging can be adjusted or localized digitally, enabling seamless integration into various environments, such as seasonal campaigns or channel-specific formats. This means that new creative content can be generated without having to constantly reshoot from scratch. AI Refinery momentum Accenture unveiled its AI Refinery platform in October 2024. It has since filed 55 patent applications across 10 countries, and the technical achievements of its AI Refinery platform have been presented and explored in 12 technical whitepapers. Accelerating the path to agentic AI for organizations, Accenture is on track to deliver its goal of 100 industry agent solutions by the end of the year. In March 2025, it debuted agent builder, which can easily customize agents in a no code environment. The following month, it announced the Trusted Agent Huddle to bring first-of-its-kind multi-system AI agent collaboration capabilities to organizations that need solutions that can span the enterprise. Accenture AI Refinery is available on all public and private cloud platforms and integrates with other Accenture Business Groups to accelerate AI across the SaaS and Cloud AI ecosystem. About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "may," "will," "should," "likely," "anticipates," "aspires," "expects," "intends," "plans," "projects," "believes," "estimates," "positioned," "outlook," "goal," "target" and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance nor promises that goals or targets will be met, and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. These risks include, without limitation, that the use of AI could harm our business, damage our reputation or give rise to legal or regulatory action, as well as the risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed under the "Risk Factors" heading in Accenture plc's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this news release speak only as of the date they were made, and Accenture undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements made in this news release or to conform such statements to actual results or changes in Accenture's expectations. View source version on Contacts Hannah UnkeferAccenture+1 206 839 Jenn FrancisAccenture+1 312 693
Business Wire
11-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Accenture Teams with NVIDIA to Advance AI Agenda for Europe with AI Refinery for Sovereign and Agentic AI
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GTC EMEA 2025 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has expanded its AI Refinery ™ platform for Europe with new sovereign and agentic capabilities to help European organizations maintain control over critical data and apply innovative AI solutions. 'AI provides a unique opportunity for Europe to reinvent its economy, drive productivity, resilience and competitiveness, and support its future growth,' said Mauro Macchi, Accenture's CEO for Europe, Middle East and Africa. 'The expansion of our AI Refinery platform enables European organizations to accelerate the deployment of AI agents, while addressing their sovereignty concerns. This is particularly crucial for the public sector and critical infrastructure industries, such as energy, telecommunications and defense.' 'Sovereign AI is unlocking extraordinary new possibilities while preserving the integrity of national data, infrastructure, and cultural identity across Europe,' said Justin Boitano, vice president, Enterprise Software Products at NVIDIA. "Together, NVIDIA and Accenture are working with leaders across the public sector, energy, telecom and the continent's industrial core—from manufacturing to retail—to build a resilient, innovative future powered by AI.' New sovereign AI architecture capabilities 'As AI adoption accelerates across industry and society, there is a growing need for management and operations across various elements of the AI stack, from infrastructure to models and applications, including data management,' said Karthik Narain, group chief executive – Technology and CTO, Accenture. 'To address this, we're providing a platform-based approach with AI Refinery for sovereignty, enabling organizations to develop and deploy AI capabilities – leveraging their own cloud infrastructure and adhering to data residency and security requirements with management and observability capabilities baked in – to drive new value and growth while maintaining control in a fast-moving market.' Accenture estimates Europe will account for up to 30% of the global sovereign AI market by 2030. To address this demand, Accenture's new sovereign AI architecture builds on the success of Accenture and NVIDIA in deploying one of the world's first comprehensive AI stacks for Indosat. Part of AI Refinery, which is built on NVIDIA Enterprise AI, the sovereign AI architecture has solutions that cater to different market needs and priorities, offered as-a-service. This includes configurable AI models tailored to national languages and contexts; a development and deployment platform that is hosted and managed within a nation's jurisdiction; and secure, easy-to-customize solutions to meet the unique needs of the public sector and critical infrastructure industries. Digital sovereignty often calls for organizations to adopt controls and provisions aligned to sector-specific needs. For example, Accenture is working with a public utility in Europe to deploy sovereign GPUs as-a-service to ensure dedicated AI compute resources remain secured within its national borders. Physical AI enhances operational resilience in manufacturing Manufacturers across Europe are pushing to optimize their production, warehouse, and supply chain operations. The industrial sector is particularly strategic for Europe as it accounts for roughly a quarter of Europe's GDP. With its AI Refinery, Accenture is helping clients implement AI-powered robotics, simulation and digital twins and adapt ways of working with human workers to effectively reinvent warehouse, logistics and manufacturing to drive efficiencies and lower costs. Today, Accenture also introduced a physical AI software development kit (SDK) that can understand video and image segmentation based on predefined parameters or natural language queries by leveraging NVIDIA Metropolis and the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization (VSS).KION has partnered with Accenture and NVIDIA to explore these capabilities to enhance safety, productivity, and quality control in manufacturing and warehouse automation. AI fueling competitiveness and growth Accenture and NVIDIA have continued to demonstrate how AI can help European organizations create a competitive edge by building a foundation for continuous reinvention and future growth. Noli (No One Like I) the first, AI-powered multi-brand marketplace startup founded and backed by L'Oréal Groupe, has teamed with Accenture and NVIDIA to reinvent how people discover and shop beauty products by addressing the number one pain point for beauty shoppers - the overwhelming volume of products and lack of unbiased, often conflicting advice in the market. With AI Refinery, Noli acts as a Beauty Advisor, cutting through the noise, using powerful AI diagnostics and tools built from over one million face scans and analysis of thousands of product formulations, to decode each user's beauty profile and to provide product recommendations to help them make confident, right-for-them choices, which are then delivered to their doorstep. Nestlé is launching a new AI-powered in-house service that will create high-quality product content at scale for eCommerce and digital media channels. Developed in partnership with Accenture, this new content service is based on digital twins and powered by NVIDIA Omniverse platform, providing exact 3D virtual replicas of physical products. Product packaging can be adjusted or localized digitally, enabling seamless integration into various environments, such as seasonal campaigns or channel-specific formats. This means that new creative content can be generated without having to constantly reshoot from scratch. AI Refinery momentum Accenture unveiled its AI Refinery platform in October 2024. It has since filed 55 patent applications across 10 countries, and the technical achievements of its AI Refinery platform have been presented and explored in 12 technical whitepapers. Accelerating the path to agentic AI for organizations, Accenture is on track to deliver its goal of 100 industry agent solutions by the end of the year. In March 2025, it debuted agent builder, which can easily customize agents in a no code environment. The following month, it announced the Trusted Agent Huddle to bring first-of-its-kind multi-system AI agent collaboration capabilities to organizations that need solutions that can span the enterprise. Accenture AI Refinery is available on all public and private cloud platforms and integrates with other Accenture Business Groups to accelerate AI across the SaaS and Cloud AI ecosystem. About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as 'may,' 'will,' 'should,' 'likely,' 'anticipates,' 'aspires,' 'expects,' 'intends,' 'plans,' 'projects,' 'believes,' 'estimates,' 'positioned,' 'outlook,' 'goal,' 'target' and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance nor promises that goals or targets will be met, and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. These risks include, without limitation, that the use of AI could harm our business, damage our reputation or give rise to legal or regulatory action, as well as the risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed under the 'Risk Factors' heading in Accenture plc's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this news release speak only as of the date they were made, and Accenture undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements made in this news release or to conform such statements to actual results or changes in Accenture's expectations.
Techday NZ
21-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Red Hat & NVIDIA unveil hybrid cloud solution for AI agents
Red Hat has announced integration with the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, aiming to facilitate the deployment of agentic AI systems across hybrid cloud environments. The collaboration utilises NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and NVIDIA Blackwell B200 systems, running on the Red Hat AI portfolio including Red Hat OpenShift AI, to support advanced generative and agentic AI workloads. Red Hat states that this move will provide enterprises with a flexible software foundation to deploy, operate and scale AI agents reliably. Chris Wright, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Engineering at Red Hat emphasised the significance of this integration, saying: "AI agents represent the near-term future of enterprise AI, where fast-moving, independent models can speed through any number of tasks to free organizations for higher level innovation. Red Hat OpenShift AI is an ideal platform to run these workloads delivered by NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated designs, offering the scale, flexibility and power necessary to deliver product-ready generative AI across the hybrid cloud." Red Hat's integration will enable NVIDIA Blackwell architecture support across Red Hat AI platforms, with a reference architecture for the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory developed on Red Hat OpenShift AI. This architecture has undergone full verification and performance-testing to address the growing demand for scaling AI agents. The company highlights OpenShift AI's capabilities for consistent deployment and management of AI agents, leveraging vLLM-based inference, as well as enhanced observability and monitoring features. The reference architecture makes use of NVIDIA NIM microservices accessible through the application catalogue, permitting organisations to assemble a fully validated AI software stack. This design allows operation of on-premises AI factories equipped with NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and NVIDIA Blackwell B200 systems. Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI at NVIDIA said: "NVIDIA and Red Hat are pioneering the future of enterprise AI by integrating Red Hat OpenShift AI with the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design. Together, we're creating a more seamless, full-stack platform that IT can use as the foundation for transforming business data into actionable agentic AI intelligence." Red Hat stresses that its enterprise AI approach combines open source technologies, the adaptability of a hybrid cloud model, and partnership with multiple stakeholders across the AI development ecosystem. The company collaborates with hardware providers and system integrators, aiming to support customers with comprehensive AI solutions that match specific business requirements. This broader ecosystem-centric position, Red Hat notes, enables wider adoption of tools like the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, and is intended to meet customers' needs at various stages of the AI development lifecycle, both in the cloud and on-premises infrastructures. Follow us on: Share on:
