en.Wedoany.com Reported - Akamai has been selected by World Wide Technology (WWT) as a strategic partner for the AI Operational Resilience Model (ARMOR), providing the foundational security architecture for WWT's "AI factory" built and accelerated by NVIDIA. The core of this partnership involves integrating Akamai's software intelligence directly into NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs), aiming to eliminate the "security tax" enterprises face when adopting AI—the issue of traditional security agents competing with AI workloads for critical computing resources.
WWT's ARMOR is considered the industry's first vendor-agnostic comprehensive AI security framework. It provides a structured blueprint across six key areas: Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), Model Security, Secure AI Operations, Infrastructure Security, Data Protection, and Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Akamai's role within this framework focuses on three strategic pillars. In eliminating the "security tax," offloading Akamai Guardicore Segmentation onto NVIDIA BlueField creates an isolated execution layer that survives even when the host operating system is compromised, allowing AI environments to operate at peak efficiency while accelerating ransomware containment by an average of 21.4%, with improvements reaching 32.6% in large enterprises. In protecting agentic AI and data lakes, Akamai API Security monitors AI's "connective tissue," guarding against unauthorized access to data lakes that feed Large Language Models (LLMs). In end-to-end defense, it integrates with the Prolexic DDoS mitigation solution to form a multi-layered defense against volumetric attacks aimed at overwhelming mission-critical AI architectures.
PJ Joseph, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Services at Akamai, stated that before ARMOR, organizations were often forced to piece together fragmented security strategies; by aligning Akamai's portfolio with this framework, they provide a proactive approach to isolating large-scale AI clusters and preventing lateral threat movement without sacrificing the performance required for AI training and inference. WWT's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) will serve as a global proving ground for AI architectures, embedding Akamai into the ARMOR reference model to ensure enterprises can move beyond basic compliance to achieve true cyber resilience.
