Crowd strikea leading cybersecurity company, announced a strategic partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to strengthen the security of artificial intelligence (AI) innovations, in particular large language models (LLM). This collaboration integrates the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform with HPE’s GreenLake and OpsRamp AIOps cloud services, aiming to provide a unified approach to securing and accelerating AI innovation.
The partnership aims to combine IT operations and cybersecurity in a streamlined process, designed to secure AI-driven advancements. The integration of CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform with HPE OpsRamp’s AI-driven observability tools will provide a comprehensive view of an organization’s attack surfaces across its infrastructure and applications. This holistic approach aims to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities within AI pipelines, ensuring the resilience and integrity of AI solutions.
George Kurtz, CEO and Founder of CrowdStrike, stressed the need to integrate robust security measures with technological advancements. “Security must follow the slope of technological innovation. GenAI promises to transform business operations, and the best AI requires the best AI-based security. Our partnership with HPE combines powerful enterprise computing with the industry’s first security platform to accelerate the secure adoption of AI and ML end-to-end,” said Kurtz.
OpsRamp, a key element of this collaboration, provides a unified operational view of applications and infrastructure through comprehensive observability. It provides complete operations and automation for NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and AI workloads from a single console. The OpsRamp platform includes an Operations Copilot that uses an AI-powered generative conversational assistant to facilitate rapid problem detection and resolution. This integration into the HPE GreenLake cloud will enable CrowdStrike to protect AI workloads and LLMs, leveraging joint AI solutions and go-to-market strategies developed by HPE and NVIDIA.
The broader HPE portfolio includes HPE Private Cloud AI, announced at HPE Discover 2024. This solution integrates NVIDIA AI computing, networking, and software with HPE’s GreenLake storage, compute, and cloud. It is designed to deliver advanced AI capabilities from the edge to data centers and cloud, ensuring a seamless experience for AI-enabled operations.
Fidelma Russo, executive vice president/general manager of hybrid cloud and chief technology officer at HPE, highlighted the critical role of security in AI applications. “Security is crucial for AI applications and the data they access. Our strategic collaboration with CrowdStrike, combined with our OpsRamp observability, provides comprehensive endpoint security to protect your AI applications running on HPE Private Cloud AI,” said Russo.
This partnership between CrowdStrike and HPE aims to ensure that organizations can securely adopt and implement generative AI technologies in diverse environments, ranging from edge to cloud. The integration of advanced cybersecurity measures aims to increase business confidence in deploying AI solutions, thereby facilitating broader adoption of AI technologies.
The collaboration addresses several key challenges facing organizations today, such as the increasing complexity of managing and securing AI innovations. By delivering a unified solution that integrates security with AI operations, CrowdStrike and HPE are poised to drive the next wave of AI Adoption while safeguarding the underlying data and processes.
In addition to providing enhanced security, this partnership is expected to accelerate the deployment of AI and machine learning (ML) applications by ensuring that security measures keep pace with technological advancements. As AI continues to evolve and play a larger role in business operations, the integration of CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity expertise with HPE’s AI and cloud capabilities represents a critical step forward in ensuring the future of AI.
