As technology advances, operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) are increasingly connected, expanding their capabilities but also exposing them to cyber threats. NVIDIA partners with cybersecurity providers and Siemens to bring accelerated computing and AI to OT cybersecurity, enhancing threat detection and response in critical infrastructure.

Forescout and NVIDIA collaborate to bring zero trust security to OT environments, ensuring continuous verification and authorization of users, devices, and workloads. Forescout provides real-time risk assessment and policy-based enforcement, while NVIDIA BlueField DPUs run security services at the industrial edge to protect critical processes.

Siemens and Palo Alto Networks embed security into industrial automation with an AI-ready Industrial Automation DataCenter that consolidates automation expertise into a robust IT/OT platform. NVIDIA BlueField integration enables AI-ready, zero-trust security tailored for industrial automation, ensuring deep visibility and continuous monitoring for abnormal behavior.

Akamai extends segmentation to OT and ICS with NVIDIA BlueField, enabling agentless segmentation and zero-trust policy enforcement at the edge. This approach contains threats quickly, limits their spread, and ensures mission-critical operations run smoothly without introducing latency or disrupting workloads.

Xage Security partners with NVIDIA to bring zero-trust security to energy infrastructure powering AI systems. Xage’s security platform, combined with NVIDIA BlueField, protects energy assets, manages third-party access, and secures AI-driven operations at scale without compromising performance or resilience, essential for securing critical infrastructure.

A new class of OT cybersecurity architecture is emerging, with security services running on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs at the edge, close to operational systems. OT data is analyzed centrally for threats and anomalies while security actions are enforced locally, creating a coordinated defense that improves visibility, accelerates response, and scales protection consistently across OT and IT environments.

Read more at NVIDIA: NVIDIA Brings AI-Powered Cybersecurity to World’s Critical Infrastructure