CrowdStrike brings Falcon security to the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia

CrowdStrike and Dell Technologies unveiled an integrated security offering for the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, timed to the Fal.Con Europe 2026 conference in Barcelona. The deal lets enterprises buy Dell’s AI infrastructure and CrowdStrike’s Falcon security platform as one package, covering everything from the underlying workloads to the AI agents and applications running on top of them, alongside Nvidia’s accelerated-computing hardware. “Every enterprise is racing to build AI, but AI without security is an opportunity for the adversary,” CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz said.

Through Dell’s AI Ecosystem Program, customers can now purchase AI infrastructure and CrowdStrike security together, built to Nvidia’s AI Factory Reference Architecture. Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell framed the goal as giving customers an already-vetted technical foundation, so that connectivity, security and compute decisions get planned together as part of one enterprise architecture instead of being bolted on after deployment.

The offering bundles three Falcon capabilities. Falcon Guardian gives enterprises visibility and runtime control over AI agent activity, guarding against prompt injection, unexpected behavior and sensitive-data exposure; it builds on Nvidia’s OpenShell Reference Architecture, with the OpenShell secure runtime integrated now and plans to add Nvidia Sentry and Nvidia BlueField-4 DPUs later, extending agent security from software down to the chip. Falcon Cloud Security covers code-to-runtime protection across containers and Kubernetes environments, flagging misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM combines first- and third-party security data with AI-powered detection, investigation and response.

Dell is also expanding its Managed Detection and Response service to exclusively manage these CrowdStrike capabilities, offering round-the-clock monitoring, investigation and response across the AI stack.

Why it matters

The partnership reflects a broader shift among AI infrastructure vendors toward building security directly into reference architectures rather than leaving it for a later integration step — a signal that enterprises adopting Nvidia-based AI factories increasingly expect security to come by default, not as an add-on.