Cybersecurity and cloud corporations Akamai Technologies is joining hands with Nvidia to introduce an advanced security framework to artificial intelligence (AI) factories.
Akamai said on the 2nd that it will expand security cooperation with Nvidia. The two corporations will combine Akamai's security solution Guardicore Segmentation with Nvidia's data processing unit (DPU) "Vera BlueField-4 STX" and DOCA software to embed a zero-trust framework in AI factories. The goal is to block potential security threats from the infrastructure stage. An Akamai official said, "The characteristic is that security can run at the same speed as accelerated computing without burdening the graphics processing units (GPUs) and Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that AI workloads rely on."
Ophir Wolf, Akamai senior vice president (SVP) of enterprise security, said, "As advanced large language model (LLM)-based attacks increase the speed and scale of cyberthreats, AI factories are a core asset that must be designed on the premise of blocking threat proliferation," and added, "We support implementing zero trust at the speed of AI workloads and stopping threats before they spread across the entire high-performance environment."