Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) announced an expanded strategic partnership with CrowdStrike to help enterprises secure artificial intelligence systems across their lifecycle. The collaboration builds on a partnership established in 2025 and integrates the CrowdStrike Falcon platform into Cognizant's AI Factory and Managed Cybersecurity Services.

The expanded alliance addresses security challenges as organizations deploy autonomous AI agents across operations, IT and business processes. The partnership aims to secure AI systems from the agent and model levels to the underlying infrastructure.

"AI Builder is about putting AI to work inside the workflows that run a business, and that only scales if the AI is secure from the start," said Surya Gummadi, President, Americas, Cognizant. "By bringing the CrowdStrike Falcon platform together with our AI Factory and Neuro Cybersecurity platform, we're giving clients a way to build, run and secure autonomous AI across the agent, the model and the infrastructure beneath it."

The alliance delivers three capabilities: AI-native managed security operations through Cognizant's managed cybersecurity services, security and governance across Cognizant's AI Factory using CrowdStrike Falcon capabilities, and a security layer for private AI deployments in regulated industries.

CrowdStrike named Cognizant its 2026 Americas Velocity Partner of the Year, recognizing pipeline and delivery performance and the speed of bringing joint capabilities to market.

"The future enterprise will be powered by AI agents. The challenge isn't building them, it's securing them," said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. "Together, CrowdStrike and Cognizant are helping organizations move AI from experimentation to enterprise adoption with the confidence that every agent, model and workload is protected by the Falcon platform."

The information is based on a company press release statement.