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Cisco Partners with NVIDIA and VAST on End-to-End Secure AI Data Platform Architecture
Summary
Cisco partnered with NVIDIA and VAST to deliver a deployable AI data platform reference architecture integrating compute infrastructure, data platform, and security layers. The architecture employs Cilium for K8s networking, Tetragon for runtime security, and AI Defense for application protection, enabling full lifecycle security from data to AI applications.
Key Takeaways
Cisco demonstrated a secure AI data platform reference architecture at VAST Forward 2026. The platform integrates NVIDIA accelerated computing, VAST Data Platform, Cisco infrastructure, and security components.
VAST handles data transformation, Isovalent Enterprise Platform (Cilium/Tetragon) controls K8s traffic and provides kernel-level visibility, Cisco AI Defense protects model vulnerabilities and sets runtime guardrails.
The architecture enables full lifecycle security from data pipelines to AI applications, supporting scalable production AI deployments.
VAST handles data transformation, Isovalent Enterprise Platform (Cilium/Tetragon) controls K8s traffic and provides kernel-level visibility, Cisco AI Defense protects model vulnerabilities and sets runtime guardrails.
The architecture enables full lifecycle security from data pipelines to AI applications, supporting scalable production AI deployments.
Why It Matters
implementing end-to-end AI systems from data to security. Cisco builds an end-to-end AI security architecture through the joint ecosystem...