Cognizant has announced an expanded strategic alliance with CrowdStrike to help enterprises secure artificial intelligence deployments across the entire AI lifecycle. The collaboration extends from AI agents and models to the infrastructure supporting enterprise AI ecosystems. Building on a partnership established in 2025, Cognizant is integrating the CrowdStrike Falcon platform into its AI Factory and Managed Cybersecurity Services powered by the Cognizant Neuro Cybersecurity platform.
The announcement comes as enterprises rapidly scale autonomous AI adoption across operations, IT environments and business processes. As organizations deploy AI across public cloud, private cloud and edge environments, the attack surface continues to expand, increasing the need for advanced AI cybersecurity solutions.
The accelerated adoption of AI agents has introduced new cybersecurity challenges for enterprises. Threat actors are increasingly using AI-driven attacks, exploiting shadow AI deployments, prompt injection vulnerabilities and security gaps in agentic AI architectures. Traditional security approaches are often unable to address these evolving risks.
Cognizant and CrowdStrike aim to help enterprises deploy AI securely while maintaining governance, compliance and operational resilience. The alliance focuses on enabling organizations to scale AI initiatives with confidence while protecting AI models, workloads and interactions.
"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. An unsecured AI agent isn't a productivity gain, it's an open door," 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. That's what it takes to move AI into real enterprise operations with an approach aligned to the assurance expectations of boards, regulators and customers."
As part of the expanded partnership, Cognizant is integrating the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, including Charlotte AI and CrowdStrike's Agentic Security Workforce, into its managed cybersecurity services. The integration also includes Falcon Next-Gen SIEM capabilities orchestrated through the Cognizant Neuro Cybersecurity platform.
These AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities are designed to support continuous threat monitoring, alert triage, vulnerability prioritization, threat intelligence and automated security operations. The deployment operates within governance frameworks defined by Cognizant security architects and enterprise clients.
Within Cognizant’s AI Factory, CrowdStrike Falcon capabilities are being deployed to support AI governance and compliance management. The solution is intended to help organizations maintain secure AI operations while ensuring visibility into AI agents, tools and models across enterprise environments.
Falcon AI Detection and Response capabilities are designed to secure prompt interactions and AI agent workflows, while AI model scanning and shadow AI detection enhance visibility and governance. These capabilities are implemented within client-defined governance, risk and compliance frameworks to support secure enterprise AI adoption.
The partnership also addresses growing enterprise demand for sovereign AI and private AI deployments, particularly in regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare and government.
Cognizant’s private AI Factory deployments are designed to provide on-premises AI infrastructure hosted within client data centers. CrowdStrike Falcon serves as a security layer across compute environments, containers and data pipelines supporting private AI models and workloads.
The announcement builds on Cognizant being recognized as CrowdStrike’s 2026 Americas Velocity Partner of the Year, highlighting the companies’ joint delivery success and go-to-market execution.
"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. That's how businesses innovate faster, deploy AI securely and stop breaches in the AI era."
As enterprises continue investing in AI transformation initiatives, cybersecurity and governance remain critical priorities. Through this expanded alliance, Cognizant and CrowdStrike aim to provide organizations with a secure foundation for deploying autonomous AI systems at enterprise scale while ensuring resilience, compliance and operational trust.
About Cognizant
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