Dell Technologies and CrowdStrike have unveiled an integrated security offering for the Dell AI Factory that bundles three CrowdStrike Falcon products together with server hardware under one purchase order. Through Dell’s AI Ecosystem Program, clients can acquire Dell AI infrastructure alongside CrowdStrike’s security tools, aligned with NVIDIA’s AI Factory Reference Architecture. Dell’s Managed Detection and Response service can also take over day-to-day operation of the Falcon stack for customers opting for fully managed security. The announcement was made at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con Europe event held in Barcelona.

Falcon Guardian, Cloud Security, and Next-Gen SIEM on the AI Factory

Falcon Guardian delivers the agent-layer protection; this AI detection and response tool was first revealed by CrowdStrike at the Fal.Con conference in Las Vegas last September. Guardian runs on the existing Falcon endpoint sensor, identifies both known and unregistered shadow AI agents, links each agent’s prompts, user identity and tool calls to subsequent system actions, and enforces access controls to govern which agents are permitted to execute. Within the Dell AI Factory environment, it delivers visibility and governance over agent activity, with runtime safeguards that block prompt injection, abnormal or malicious behavior, and sensitive data leakage.

Guardian builds upon NVIDIA’s agent sandbox framework introduced at GTC Berlin. The OpenShell secure runtime integration is live today, connecting agent prompts, model interactions and runtime activity to the broader security context inside the Falcon platform. CrowdStrike plans to add NVIDIA Support for Sentry running on BlueField-4 DPUs, which will deliver out-of-band monitoring and silicon-level policy enforcement for agent behavior beyond software-based runtime controls. Neither vendor has shared a target launch date for the Sentry and BlueField-4 integrations.

Beneath the AI agents, Falcon Cloud Security secures underlying infrastructure and workloads from code deployment through active runtime. It flags misconfigurations and vulnerabilities and hunts threats across containerized environments and Kubernetes clusters. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM unifies internal and third-party security datasets to power AI-enabled detection, investigation and response workflows. Guardian feeds its agent telemetry into Next-Gen SIEM as native first-party data, so agent activity logs reside in the same repository alongside identity, cloud and SaaS event records.

“AI agents are reshaping how every organization operates, and capability and security must advance hand in hand,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “CrowdStrike is bringing its cybersecurity platform to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and extending support to NVIDIA OpenShell. Together, we help enterprises protect the infrastructure that runs AI and the autonomous agents acting on their behalf, giving them confidence to deploy AI widely across their business.”

Dell MDR Manages the Stack

Dell Managed Detection and Response Services now expands its scope to operate these CrowdStrike security capabilities across the Dell AI Factory, and Dell states this MDR offering will serve as the exclusive managed service for the bundle. The service provides round-the-clock monitoring, investigation and response coverage across the full AI stack. Dell security analysts oversee identity controls, Dell storage infrastructure and active AI workloads. Dell’s selling point is that its analysts understand both cybersecurity threats and the underlying infrastructure hosting the workloads, shortening the path from alert generation to the affected system. The release includes no metrics on detection speed or response latency.

This Falcon integration is not entirely new. Back at Dell Technologies World in May, Dell first rolled out Falcon platform support for the AI Factory, featuring real-time correlated telemetry and custom detections tailored for NVIDIA AI Enterprise components such as NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA NeMo. Coverage included prompt injection, model drift, unauthorized use, shadow AI, risky software packages, data leakage and improper output handling. That same program extended Falcon Insight XDR and Falcon Prevent endpoint protection to desktop systems including Dell Pro Max models with GB10 and GB300 accelerators, plus Dell Pro Precision workstations, starting at launch.

What marks this announcement as new is the addition of Guardian for AI agents, the OpenShell runtime integration, and the option to purchase the full suite and hand ongoing operations over to Dell as a single packaged solution.

Fortanix Covers Data and Model Weights in Use

The confidential computing component of the Dell AI Factory sits separate from this CrowdStrike partnership and also traces back to the May launch. Built jointly with Fortanix, Confidential Compute for Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA protects live data and proprietary model weights during inference inside hardware-backed trusted execution environments on NVIDIA infrastructure. Storage and networking layers protect data both at rest and in transit. Fortanix supplies key management functionality that Dell describes as ready for post-quantum cryptography, while continuous audit logs capture access events, processing activity and operational conditions for compliance review.

Dell positions confidential computing for use cases governed by strict regulations and scenarios involving proprietary intellectual property, naming healthcare, financial services, pharmaceuticals and government agencies as target user groups. It does not claim any application-specific compliance certification. Pricing for the CrowdStrike bundle via the AI Ecosystem Program has not been published, and the two firms have not released test figures covering detection accuracy or performance overhead from the integration.

“Organizations face real pressure to accelerate AI adoption, yet speed without security creates risk rather than business value,” said Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies. “The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA delivers a validated, optimized foundation, and CrowdStrike’s AI-native security built in from day one lets teams move forward with confidence. This creates a clear, trusted path from AI ambitions to tangible AI outcomes.”

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