Singapore – VAST Data and CrowdStrike have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening security across the AI lifecycle in enterprise environments. The collaboration brings together VAST Data’s data-layer governance and platform controls with CrowdStrike’s threat detection and automated response capabilities, integrating these functions within the VAST AI OS and linking telemetry to the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform.
The combined approach is designed to provide coordinated protection across stages, including data ingestion, model training, runtime operations and inference. By aligning data governance with security monitoring and response, the two companies intend to address risks associated with the deployment of AI systems at scale.
As organisations move beyond pilot projects to production-grade and autonomous AI systems, operational complexity and exposure to risk increase. AI environments often depend on continuous data flows, distributed processing and dynamic workflows. The partnership seeks to embed monitoring, detection and response mechanisms directly into these environments to support secure development and ongoing operations.
“VAST was built to be the operating system for AI, with security and governance designed into the platform,” Renen Hallak, founder & CEO of VAST Data, commented.
“This partnership with CrowdStrike extends continuous threat detection and coordinated response into AI workflows and runtime environments to help customers operate enterprise AI with greater confidence as they scale.”
Under the arrangement, CrowdStrike’s monitoring and detection capabilities complement VAST Data’s existing controls at the data layer. The integration covers AI data pipelines and containerised runtime environments, to enable organisations to expand AI deployments while maintaining oversight of potential threats.
Security functions are intended to operate within AI workflows, helping to mitigate risks such as unauthorised access, malicious code, compromised datasets, model manipulation and data leakage. Telemetry sharing between the platforms is also expected to support earlier identification of threats and coordinated responses across enterprise systems, to limit operational disruption.
Additionally, the agreement extends the companies’ existing collaboration with NVIDIA. By combining NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure with CrowdStrike’s runtime protection and VAST Data’s real-time data-layer enforcement, the three organisations plan to support end-to-end protection of AI pipelines, from training environments through to inference workloads.
“AI is becoming the operating system of the modern enterprise,” George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike, stated.
“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.”
The partnership reflects a broader industry focus on securing AI systems as they become more widely adopted in enterprise settings, with an emphasis on integrating security controls across infrastructure, workloads and data foundations.
