VAST Forward, CA — February 25, 2026 — Leads & Copy — VAST Data and CrowdStrike announced a strategic partnership at VAST Forward 2026, integrating VAST’s data-layer governance with CrowdStrike’s threat detection and automated response.
The collaboration aims to provide coordinated protection for enterprise environments throughout the AI lifecycle, from data ingestion and model training to runtime operation and inference. By integrating these capabilities within the VAST AI Operating System and connecting telemetry with the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform, the companies seek to enhance security for the data and operational state that modern AI systems rely on.
As enterprises transition from AI experimentation to production and autonomous systems, the nature of risk evolves. AI systems depend on continuous data ingestion, dynamic workflows, and distributed runtime environments. This partnership focuses on securing the AI lifecycle—from development through production—by integrating continuous detection, workflow scanning, and response into environments where AI systems are built, trained, and operated.
VAST Data Founder & CEO Renen Hallak stated that VAST was built to be the operating system for AI, with security and governance designed into the platform. Hallak noted that the partnership with CrowdStrike extends continuous threat detection and coordinated response into AI workflows and runtime environments.
Customer benefits of the partnership include:
Secure, Production-Ready AI: CrowdStrike complements VAST’s platform controls with continuous monitoring and threat detection across AI data pipelines and containerized runtime environments.
Protection Embedded into AI Workflows: By integrating detection and response wherever AI operates, security becomes a native component of AI workloads, helping prevent malware, compromised or untrusted data, and unauthorized access.
Coordinated Detection and Response Across Platforms: Sharing telemetry between enterprise security operations enables earlier detection and precise, coordinated response, containing threats at the source while minimizing operational disruption.
The partnership between VAST and CrowdStrike extends to collaboration with NVIDIA, securing AI pipelines end-to-end. The companies are collaborating to secure AI across the stack, protecting AI infrastructure, AI workloads, and the underlying data foundation. Combining NVIDIA AI infrastructure, CrowdStrike’s AI-driven threat detection and runtime protection, and VAST’s real-time data-layer enforcement, the partnership aims to provide a comprehensive approach to protecting AI pipelines from model training to inference.
CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz stated that VAST operates at the data layer where AI comes to life, and CrowdStrike secures where enterprise value is created.
VAST Data, CrowdStrike, and NVIDIA are advancing how enterprise AI is protected at scale by enhancing security at the data layer and enabling organizations to deploy production AI with confidence.
VAST Data describes itself as the AI Operating System company, powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. CrowdStrike describes itself as a global cybersecurity leader.
Source: VAST Data
