CrowdStrike & HPE partner to secure AI innovations

CrowdStrike has announced a strategic partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to enhance the security of AI innovations, including large language models (LLMs), through the integration of the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform and HPE's GreenLake cloud and OpsRamp AIOps.

Through this integration, IT operations and cybersecurity can be unified into a single process aimed at securely accelerating AI innovation. The combined capabilities of the Falcon platform and OpsRamp's AI-driven observability aim to provide a comprehensive view of attack surfaces across an organisation's infrastructure and applications. This integration is designed to help organisations identify and rectify security gaps within their accelerated AI pipelines, thereby ensuring the resilience and integrity of AI innovations.

George Kurtz, CEO and Founder of CrowdStrike, highlighted the importance of integrating security with technological advancements. "Security needs to parallel the slope of technology innovation. GenAI promises to transform business operations, and the best AI requires the best AI-powered security. Our partnership with HPE combines powerful enterprise computing with the industry's premier security platform to accelerate secure end-to-end AI and ML adoption," Kurtz said.

OpsRamp delivers a unified operational view of applications and infrastructure through full-stack observability and provides comprehensive operations and automation for NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI workloads from a single console. Its operations copilot uses a generative AI-powered conversational assistant to facilitate rapid detection and remediation of issues. Additional integrations 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.

HPE's broader portfolio also includes HPE Private Cloud AI. Announced at HPE Discover 2024, this solution integrates NVIDIA AI computing, networking, and software with HPE's own AI storage, compute, and GreenLake cloud. It is designed to offer advanced AI capabilities from the edge to data centres to the cloud.

Fidelma Russo, EVP/GM Hybrid Cloud and Chief Technology Officer at HPE, elaborated on the significance 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, offers complete endpoint security to protect your AI applications running on HPE Private Cloud AI," Russo stated.

This partnership between CrowdStrike and HPE aims to ensure that organisations can securely adopt and implement generative AI technologies across a variety of environments, ranging from the edge to the cloud. The integration of advanced cybersecurity measures is intended to bolster the confidence of enterprises in deploying AI solutions, thereby facilitating the broader adoption of AI technologies.