At VAST Forward 2026, VAST Data and CrowdStrike officially unveiled a strategic partnership designed to secure enterprise AI environments from the ground up. By combining VAST’s native data-layer governance and platform-level controls with CrowdStrike’s enterprise-grade threat detection and automated response, the companies are delivering coordinated, end-to-end protection across the entire AI lifecycle.
Through this integration, the VAST AI Operating System now connects telemetry directly with the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform. As a result, enterprises can secure AI systems from data ingestion and model training to runtime operations and inference. More importantly, this collaboration introduces layered security that safeguards both the operational state and data foundation that modern AI systems rely on.
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As organizations transition from AI experimentation to full-scale production and autonomous systems, the risk landscape continues to shift. AI environments now depend on continuous data ingestion, dynamic workflows, and distributed runtime infrastructures. Consequently, security can no longer remain an afterthought. Instead, it must integrate directly into the environments where AI models are developed, trained, and deployed. This partnership addresses that need by embedding continuous detection, workflow scanning, and automated response mechanisms into AI operations.
“VAST was built to be the operating system for AI, with security and governance designed into the platform,” said Renen Hallak, Founder & CEO of VAST Data. “This partnership with CrowdStrike extends continuous threat detection and coordinated response into AI workflows and runtime environments – helping customers operate enterprise AI with greater confidence as they scale.”
Notably, enterprises gain several key benefits from this collaboration. First, organizations can deploy secure, production-ready AI directly at the data layer. CrowdStrike enhances VAST’s built-in controls with continuous monitoring and threat detection across AI data pipelines and containerized runtime environments, allowing teams to scale AI securely and efficiently.
Second, security becomes an embedded component of AI workflows. By integrating detection and response wherever AI operates, enterprises can prevent malware infiltration, untrusted data inputs, unauthorized access, and risks such as model poisoning or data leakage.
Additionally, the partnership enables coordinated detection and response across platforms. By sharing telemetry between enterprise security operations and the data layer, organizations achieve earlier threat detection and more precise containment, minimizing operational disruptions while addressing risks at the source.
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Furthermore, this partnership extends to NVIDIA, strengthening the companies’ ongoing collaboration. Together, VAST Data, CrowdStrike, and NVIDIA are securing AI pipelines end-to-end from infrastructure to workloads and underlying data foundations. By combining NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure, CrowdStrike’s AI-driven runtime protection, and VAST’s real-time data-layer enforcement, the trio delivers a comprehensive, stack-wide security framework.
“AI is becoming the operating system of the modern enterprise,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “VAST operates at the data layer where AI comes to life, and CrowdStrike secures where enterprise value is created. Together, we’re securing AI at its foundation.”
Ultimately, this alliance positions VAST Data, CrowdStrike, and NVIDIA at the forefront of enterprise AI security. By reinforcing protection at the data layer and across AI workloads, the companies empower organizations to confidently scale and operationalize AI in production environments.
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