rowdStrike has announced an expanded collaboration with

NVIDIA to extend AI-native security from software to silicon, helping enterprises strengthen protection for autonomous AI agents across applications and underlying infrastructure.

The collaboration builds on the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture, announced at NVIDIA GTC 2026 in Berlin, and will see CrowdStrike integrate its Falcon Guardian AI Detection and Response( AIDR) solution with NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime software. CrowdStrike also plans to integrate Falcon Guardian with NVIDIA Sentry to enable hardware-based security enforcement.

The initiative is designed to address the emerging security challenges associated with autonomous AI agents, which can execute tasks, interact with applications and operate across enterprise environments with limited human intervention. By combining softwarebased threat detection with hardware-level

Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike enforcement, the companies aim to help organisations identify and contain malicious or unsafe agent behaviour.

“ AI agents have already created a new attack surface, and guardrails alone won’ t stop an adversary,” said Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike.“ CrowdStrike pioneered AI-native cybersecurity. Together with NVIDIA, we’ re setting the standard for securing autonomous AI, from detecting threats in software to stopping them at the silicon level.”

As part of the collaboration, the integration of Falcon Guardian with NVIDIA OpenShell will connect agent prompts, model interactions and runtime activity with broader security context from the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. This will help organisations detect malicious behaviour across AI agent workflows and gain greater visibility into potential threats.

AST Data, the AI Operating System company, has announced a new

Agent Sandbox Foundation Stack with NVIDIA, built using NVIDIA NemoClaw and NVIDIA OpenShell to provide the scalable, persistent data infrastructure enterprises need to run thousands of AI agents and sub-agents securely in production.

As enterprises deploy increasingly autonomous AI agents, infrastructure requirements are changing fundamentally. Agents can spawn other agents, execute tasks and disappear, with fleets creating and destroying thousands of isolated workspaces every hour. Long-running agents may also operate across multiple sessions, entering sleep states, resuming operations and delegating tasks to short-lived sub-agents along the way. Whether an agent runs for minutes or across multiple sessions, its progress, working data and memory need to persist independently of any individual sandbox or compute node, remaining available, governed and auditable wherever execution resumes.

The VAST Foundation Stack for Governed Agent Sandboxes addresses this challenge by combining NVIDIA’ s secure agent runtime technologies with the persistent infrastructure and data services of the VAST AI Operating System.

“ Every enterprise that puts an agent into production will eventually need to answer what it did and why it did it,” said Alon Horev, CTO and Co-Founder at VAST Data.“ An agent might exist for minutes, spawn thousands of other agents and then disappear, but its work has to persist and its actions have to stay understandable long afterward. Together with NVIDIA, we’ re showing how the VAST AI Operating System provides the durable foundation underneath secure agent environments, so organizations can scale agentic systems without sacrificing persistence, governance or control.”

Alon Horev, CTO and Co-Founder at VAST Data

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