Cognizant deepens its partnership with CrowdStrike by integrating the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform into its AI Factory and managed cybersecurity services to help enterprises secure AI across all layers.
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) Cognizant is expanding its strategic collaboration with CrowdStrike to help enterprises secure artificial intelligence across its entire lifecycle, from AI agents and models to the underlying infrastructure that powers the entire AI ecosystem. The collaboration builds on a partnership established in 2025 and sees Cognizant integrate The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform in his AI Factory as well as in its Managed Cybersecurity Services, which are operated by Cognizant Neuro® The cybersecurity platform.
The expanded effort comes at a critical time for enterprise AI. Organizations are no longer discussing whether to deploy autonomous AI agents, but rather how to scale their use across operations, IT, and mission-critical processes. At the same time, these solutions are being deployed across public and private clouds, as well as at the edge of the network.
This development creates a significantly larger attack surface than traditional security tools are built to handle. Threat actors are increasingly using AI to streamline their attacks, exploiting so-called “shadow AI”, manipulating models through prompt injections and exploring new attack paths that arise in agentic AI architectures. Security has thus become a critical factor in whether companies can scale AI with confidence or whether initiatives stall.
– AI Builder is about putting AI to work where business is actually done, and that only works if the AI is secure from the start. An unsecured AI agent is not a productivity gain, but an open door, says Surya Gummadi, President Americas at Cognizant.
– By combining CrowdStrike Falcon Platform With our AI Factory and Neuro Cybersecurity platform, we empower customers to build, operate and secure autonomous AI solutions across the agent level, model level and underlying infrastructure. This is what is required to move AI from experimentation to real-world operations, with a level of security that meets the demands of boards, regulators and customers.
Three central areas of cooperation
Cognizant’s AI Builder strategy focuses on integrating intelligent AI agents into the workflows that drive business. To scale, AI solutions must be secure, governed, and reliable. The collaboration with CrowdStrike focuses on three key areas:
AI-powered security operations
Cognizant integrates The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, including Charlotte AI™, CrowdStrike's Agentic Security Workforce and Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM, in its managed cybersecurity services. The solution is orchestrated through the Cognizant Neuro® Cybersecurity Platform.
The result is AI agents working around the clock on tasks such as alert management, threat analysis, vulnerability prioritization, and data integration, while operating within the security framework defined by Cognizant's security architects.
Security and governance in AI Factory
Within Cognizant's AI Factory, CrowdStrike Falcon® to strengthen the governance layer that will ensure that AI agents and AI applications operate within defined security and compliance frameworks.
Falcon® AI Detection and Response (AIDR) protects interactions between users, agents and prompts, while AI model scanning and shadow AI detection give organizations visibility into all models, tools and agents used in the environment. The solutions are implemented in collaboration with customers and tailored to their own governance, risk and compliance requirements.
Security layer for private and sovereign AI
For regulated industries such as finance, healthcare and the public sector, Cognizant private AI Factory implementations where the AI infrastructure runs locally in the customer's own data center.
In these environments, CrowdStrike Falcon® acts as a unified security layer that protects compute resources, container environments, and data pipelines that power private AI models.
Award-winning collaboration
The new efforts build on Cognizant’s recent recognition as CrowdStrike’s “2026 Americas Velocity Partner of the Year.” The award recognizes Cognizant’s success in selling, delivering and rapidly bringing joint solutions to market.
“The companies of the future will be run by AI agents. The challenge is not to build them, but to secure them,” says Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike.
“Together, CrowdStrike and Cognizant help organizations move from AI experiments to full-scale business use with the confidence that every agent, model and workload is protected by the Falcon platform. This enables businesses to innovate faster, deploy AI securely and stop breaches in the AI era.”.
Through the collaboration, Cognizant and CrowdStrike aim to empower enterprises to implement autonomous AI solutions with the confidence that every agent, model and interaction is protected, governed and built for resilience from the ground up.
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