NVIDIA Cybersecurity
The NVIDIA DOCA Argus architecture effortlessly interacts with enterprise security systems to provide real-time insights while identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in AI workloads.
Securing AI factories where intricate, agentic activities are carried out has never been more important as businesses embrace AI more and more.
Any AI factory can get realtime cybersecurity using NVIDIA cybersecurity AI platform’s new DOCA software framework. NVIDIA DOCA Argus, which runs on the NVIDIA BlueField networking architecture, works on all nodes to instantly identify and address assaults on AI workloads. It effortlessly integrates with enterprise security platforms to provide real-time threat analytics.
By employing sophisticated memory forensics to monitor attacks in real time, the DOCA Argus framework offers runtime threat detection that can detect threats up to 1,000 times faster than current agentless solutions without compromising system performance.
Argus operates without the need for agents, integration, or host-based resources, in contrast to traditional technologies. This agentless, zero-overhead approach improves system efficiency and security in any AI computing context, including containerized and multi-tenant infrastructures. Even in the case of a system compromise, Argus is undetectable to attackers since it runs outside the host.
By easily integrating the framework with their SIEM, SOAR, and XDR security systems, NVIDIA cybersecurity experts may extend their current cybersecurity capabilities for AI infrastructure and enable automated threat mitigation and continuous monitoring.
Every AI factory needs NVIDIA BlueField as a fundamental security component because it offers integrated, data-centric protection for large-scale AI workloads. Businesses can safeguard AI factories without sacrificing effectiveness or performance by fusing DOCA Argus’ proactive threat detection with BlueField’s acceleration capabilities.
Cisco and NVIDIA are creating a Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA architecture to help enterprises install and secure AI infrastructure. Every layer of the AI factory is secured by the architecture, guaranteeing that runtime protection is integrated from the beginning rather than added after deployment.
Now is the time for enterprises to be driving forward with AI, but the key to unlocking innovative use cases and enabling broad adoption is safety and security.” “Cisco and NVIDIA are giving businesses the infrastructure they need to scale AI with confidence while protecting their most important data.”
The NVIDIA cybersecurity AI platform, a full-stack, accelerated computing platform designed specifically for AI-driven defense, includes DOCA Argus and BlueField. It merges NVIDIA AI Enterprise technologies, including the NVIDIA Morpheus cybersecurity AI framework, with BlueField’s data-centric security and Argus’ vision to provide visibility and control over an AI factory. real-time threat detection. Additionally, it uses agentic AI to sense, reason, and react to threats in real time on its own.
Enhanced AI Workload Security Identification
Large amounts of data are flooded into businesses, making it challenging to identify actual dangers. With AI models and autonomous agents working at enterprise scale to seamlessly integrate data, apps, and users, the increasing usage of agentic AI presents previously unheard-of prospects for extracting insights from data while also necessitating cutting-edge security that can keep up.
Only genuine, verified threats are displayed by DOCA Argus, which has been refined and enhanced with input from NVIDIA’s own security team. The system reduces warning fatigue and streamlines security operations by giving organizations actionable knowledge by concentrating on known threat actors and removing false positives.
With real-world threat intelligence and validation, Argus is specifically designed to safeguard containerized workloads, such as NVIDIA NIM microservices, and secure all tiers of the AI application stack.
To properly safeguard AI factories, which form the basis of agentic reasoning, cyber defenders require strong tools. “The DOCA Argus framework gives defenders a data advantage through actionable intelligence by providing real-time security insights to enable autonomous detection and response.”
Platform and Host Deployments
The BlueField Networking Platform’s DOCA
NVIDIA BlueField networking platform, an advanced computing platform for data center infrastructure, uses DOCA to provide massively scaled software-defined networking, storage, security, and management services at high speeds.
The host’s DOCA
When combined with DOCA, NVIDIA BlueField and NVIDIA Connect-X provide Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity solutions at up to 800 gigabits per second (Gb/s). The open-source DOCA-host package includes drivers and tools to improve networking performance and expand functionality. DOCA software is available without an OS bundle for Arm and x86 platforms for all major operating systems.
Unpack the Stack
Bundle of BlueField Software
- A validated bootloader, operating system kernel, NIC firmware, NVIDIA drivers, sample filesystem, and toolchain are all included in the BlueField software bundle.
- BlueField includes Ubuntu 22.04, a commercial Linux system including OS and security upgrades.
Key Elements of the SDK
- DOCA RDMA acceleration SDK includes GPUDirect, verbs, UCC, and UCX.
Network acceleration SDKs include VirtIO, P4, 5T for 5G, Firefly time synchronization, and NVIDIA ASAP2 SDN. - App Shield runtime security, inline cryptography security acceleration SDK
- SDK for storage acceleration: compression, encryption, and storage emulation and virtualization
- Workloads needing high-performance access to NIC engines can be accelerated with the Data Path Acceleration (DPA) SDK.
- SDK for management: provisioning, deployment, and service orchestration
- Industry-standard APIs: Linux Netlink, P4, SPDK, and DPDK
- The kernel and user space
Forward and Backward Compatibility
DOCA provides multi-generational support to ensure that programs written today will work reliably and perform better on future BlueField generations.
Offload, Accelerate, Isolate Infrastructure
BlueField securely delivers data to workloads at wire speed while offloading, accelerating, and isolating network, storage, and security services.
Open Ecosystem
Software applications can accelerate ecosystem expansion with DOCA.