NVIDIA and partners bring AI-driven zero trust to OT

NVIDIA is collaborating with Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Xage Security and Siemens to bring accelerated computing and AI to OT cybersecurity.

• Main announcement: NVIDIA and partners will embed AI-driven, zero-trust security into OT/ICS by running security services on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, enabling agentless discovery, agentless segmentation, local inspection/enforcement at the edge, and centralized analysis in AI factories; demonstrations are scheduled at S4x26 (Feb. 24–26, Miami).
• Details and background:Forescout provides continuous, agentless discovery and policy enforcement for OT/IoT/IT; Akamai has extended the Guardicore Platform to run on BlueField for agentless segmentation; Palo Alto’s Prisma AIRS runs on BlueField for deep traffic inspection; Xage (which already protects about 60% of U.S. midstream pipeline infrastructure) will show zero-trust integrations on BlueField; Siemens will demonstrate an AI-ready Industrial Automation DataCenter with IEC 62443-aligned cybersecurity and edge data center capabilities.