Dell Technologies and CrowdStrike are offering an integrated security solution for the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. According to the companies, it covers protection for AI agents, infrastructure and security operations. Dell is also expanding its MDR services.
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Dell Technologies and CrowdStrike announced a partnership on AI security on November 9, 2026, in Frankfurt am Main. Organizations can use CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform to secure AI environments, workloads, agents and applications. The infrastructure and services come from Dell Technologies, the compute power from NVIDIA.
The joint offering is available through the Dell Technologies AI Ecosystem Program. According to the announcement, it is aligned with NVIDIA’s AI Factory Reference Architecture. The companies describe it as a security foundation intended to speed up the adoption of AI in enterprises.
Three Falcon platform capabilities
According to the vendors, the solution integrates three core capabilities of the Falcon platform into the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.
Falcon Guardian is meant to secure AI agents and applications. It provides visibility into agent activity and makes it possible to control it. Runtime protection targets prompt injection attacks, unexpected and malicious behavior, and the disclosure of sensitive data. Falcon Guardian is based on the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture and is integrated into the secured NVIDIA OpenShell runtime environment. Integration with NVIDIA Sentry and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs is also planned, with the aim of extending protection from the software layer down to the chip level.
Falcon Cloud Security addresses AI infrastructure and workloads. It covers cloud security from the code level through runtime. It identifies misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, detects threats and protects workloads in container and Kubernetes environments.
Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is intended to unify security processes. It combines data from first-party and third-party sources with AI-assisted detection, investigation and response. According to the announcement, this allows threats to be identified faster and security incidents to be stopped.
Expanded MDR services
Dell Technologies is also expanding its managed detection and response (MDR) services to cover CrowdStrike capabilities. This includes threat detection and response for the Dell AI Factory. The services provide round-the-clock monitoring as well as analysis and response across the entire AI stack. The aim is for organizations to detect threats earlier, contain attacks and restore critical AI processes.
The companies’ positions
George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike, stresses the security aspect: “AI without security is an invitation to attackers.” Security, he says, must not be an afterthought. Together, the companies want to make Falcon’s AI-native protection a fixed component of the AI Factory so that organizations can innovate at scale on validated and optimized architectures.
Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, points to the time pressure around AI adoption: “Speed without security creates risk instead of value.” The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, he says, offers a validated foundation. With CrowdStrike’s integrated security solution, organizations are meant to be able to carry out their projects on a clear path from AI ambition to concrete results.
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