NVIDIA AI Platform Redefines Threat Detection for Cybersecurity Providers

Looking to use its AI dominance for cybersecurity, NVIDIA has announced a smart AI platform that promises real-time threat detection. The company recently revealed that many major players in the cybersecurity domain like Crowdstrike, Armis, Deloitte, and more have been engaging with their platforms to up their ante against the latest cybersecurity threats.

Collective Cybersecurity Offering

The AI platform leverages three of NVIDIA’s innovations that collectively help it offer reliable threat detection in real-time. These innovations handle different aspects of threat detection ranging from infrastructure handling to smart security inspections.

• NVIDIA BlueField: BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU) helps accelerate infrastructure workloads. This helps optimize CPU resources while accelerating security tasks like threat detection without compromising performance.

• NVIDIA DOCA: Data center infrastructure-on-a-chip architecture empowers the BlueField DPUs for building cloud-native and software-defined infrastructure. It ensures that threat detection tasks like security inspections, intrusion detection, etc. can be performed on the DPUs themselves.

• NVIDIA Morpheus: While the “real-time” part of threat detection is handled by the above two components, it's the Morpheus framework that brings the AI capabilities. The AI-driven cybersecurity framework is designed to leverage technologies like deep learning to identify suspicious events and offer real-time data analysis for threat detection.

Engagement With Cybersecurity Players

The AI platform is getting nods from many cybersecurity providers for empowering their own threat detection offerings. Thanks to multiple NVIDIA innovations empowering the platform, these vendors are visibly interested in harnessing its capabilities. Here are some of the interesting engagements:

• Armis: Armis offers a security platform, Centrix, that deals with asset protection, exposure management, and other such aspects of cybersecurity. Centrix, when integrated with NVIDIA’s platform (especially the BlueField-3 DPUs), can offer robust security for operational technology (OT) environments.

• Crowdstrike: The Falcon platform offered by the company is known for its accelerated performance when it comes to security offerings. NVIDIA’s platform further speeds up its threat detection capabilities and plays a major role in protecting critical resources like industrial control systems (ICS).

• Deloitte: Deloitte is empowering its customers to leverage the AI capabilities of NVIDIA’s platform for real-time visibility into the security-sensitive parts of their data centers and networks. This strengthens the trust between the company and the customers thanks to more secure digital transformation.

Future of AI-Driven Security

NVIDIA’s platform may not be the first in the list of AI-driven threat detection innovations. However, it definitely seems one of the most far-reaching with the company's combined innovations and the visible trust from various cybersecurity providers. With the sophisticated means to accelerate infrastructure workloads, and an AI-driven framework to proactively detect security threats, the platform speaks for its own credibility more than anyone else.

With businesses across industries failing to hold the fort against the latest cyber threats like supply chain attacks, AI-driven ransomware, and more cybersecurity customers want their vendors to be more proactive in detecting threats rather than responsive. Therefore, multiple vendors coming out in support of a platform speaks volumes about NVIDIA’s reliability in this domain.