Akamai will integrate its security capabilities into World Wide Technology’s vendor-agnostic AI security framework, helping enterprises secure AI infrastructure, protect sensitive data and improve operational resilience without compromising performance or scalability.
Akamai Technologies has been selected as a strategic partner for World Wide Technology’s (WWT) AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR), strengthening enterprise security for next-generation AI deployments.
The collaboration positions Akamai’s security platform as a core component of the AI infrastructure being developed by WWT in collaboration with NVIDIA, enabling organizations to build secure and resilient AI environments while maintaining high performance.
Addressing security challenges in AI deployments
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, security has emerged as a major operational challenge. Conventional security agents often compete with AI workloads for compute resources, affecting system efficiency and increasing infrastructure overhead.
Through the ARMOR framework, Akamai and WWT aim to address this challenge by integrating Akamai’s software intelligence directly with NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs). This approach enables security functions to operate independently of AI workloads, reducing performance impact while strengthening protection.
ARMOR offers vendor-neutral AI security blueprint
WWT describes ARMOR as the industry's first holistic, vendor-agnostic framework for AI security. Unlike cloud-specific architectures, the framework provides organizations with a structured approach to securing AI deployments across six critical domains: Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Model Protection, Secure AI Operations, Infrastructure Security, Data Protection and Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
The framework is designed to help enterprises establish consistent security controls while supporting AI innovation across diverse environments.
"Before ARMOR, organizations were often forced to piece together fragmented security strategies," said PJ Joseph, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Services at Akamai. "By aligning our portfolio with this framework, we are providing a proactive methodology to isolate large-scale AI clusters and prevent the lateral movement of threats without sacrificing the performance that AI training and inference demand."
Focus on AI infrastructure, APIs and threat protection
As part of the partnership, Akamai will contribute security capabilities across three key areas.
The company will offload its Guardicore Segmentation technology to NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, creating an isolated enforcement layer designed to improve AI workload performance while accelerating ransomware containment.
Akamai will also strengthen API security to protect the data pipelines supporting large language models (LLMs), helping prevent unauthorized access to enterprise data lakes that power AI applications.
In addition, its Prolexic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection platform will provide multilayered defence against large-scale cyberattacks targeting mission-critical AI infrastructure.
Partnership aims to improve enterprise AI resilience
WWT said its Advanced Technology Center (ATC) will serve as a testing and validation environment for AI architectures built using the ARMOR framework. By incorporating Akamai's security capabilities into the reference architecture, the companies aim to help enterprises move beyond regulatory compliance toward long-term cyber resilience.
"No single vendor can secure the AI frontier alone," said Chris Konrad, Global VP of Cybersecurity at WWT. "Through our close partnership with Akamai, we are turning the hype of secure enterprise AI into a tangible, scalable reality for customers."
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