Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA Corp. to integrate security technology into AI data centers through the NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX storage architecture.

The partnership will bring Akamai's Guardicore Segmentation technology to NVIDIA's DOCA software platform, creating what the companies describe as a Zero Trust security layer within AI infrastructure. The integration aims to protect data and applications in AI facilities without affecting the performance of graphics processing units, central processing units, or storage systems.

The solution enables operators to monitor AI workload behavior and contain security threats at the infrastructure level. Akamai's technology provides continuous mapping of how workloads and applications interact across data centers, cloud infrastructure, and edge systems, while NVIDIA's BlueField-4 STX hardware enforces security policies at line speed.

"AI factories are becoming critical assets that must be designed for containment, especially as frontier LLM-driven attacks increase the speed and scale of cyber threats," said Ofer Wolf, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Security at Akamai.

Kevin Deierling, Senior Vice President of Networking at NVIDIA, stated that the collaboration brings "a Zero Trust layer directly into the infrastructure fabric, helping protect enterprise data by intelligently controlling how AI workloads communicate at scale."

The integrated solution operates through visibility mapping, policy definition based on workload identity, enforcement through NVIDIA hardware, and containment of compromised systems. When security breaches occur, the system limits damage to specific segments while allowing other operations to continue.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with NVIDIA BlueField and DOCA is expected to be available in the second half of 2026. The integration with NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX is planned for the first half of 2027 on storage and infrastructure partner platforms.