By: Donna Beyersdorf of Dell Technologies
AI is transforming how work gets done. Employees are using generative AI to boost productivity, while organizations are beginning to deploy autonomous agents that can analyze information, make decisions, and take action on behalf of users.
But while AI changes the way work happens, one thing remains the same: every AI interaction starts with a user, an identity, and a device.
That's why securing AI isn't just about protecting models or cloud services. It starts with establishing trust at the foundation.
AI Raises the Stakes for Security
As organizations embrace AI, they also expand their attack surface. Threat actors are targeting endpoints, identities, cloud environments, and increasingly the systems that support autonomous AI workflows.
A compromised device or stolen identity can provide attackers access to the same AI tools and business data that employees rely on every day. As AI agents gain more permissions and autonomy, the need for trusted identities and secure endpoints only grows.
How Dell , CrowdStrike, and Intel Strengthen Protection
Building trust across the AI ecosystem requires security at multiple layers.
Dell Technologies helps establish trust at the device level through secure commercial PCs, hardware-based security, SafeBIOS, device resilience, and modern manageability capabilities. These protections help organizations verify device integrity before users ever access business applications or AI services.
CrowdStrike extends protection to the device and beyond with AI-native security across endpoints, identities, and cloud environments, unifying threat detection, response, and exposure management on the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. Recent innovations highlighted at Fal.Con 2026 address the growing importance of protecting not only human identities, but also non-human identities and AI agents operating across enterprise environments.
Together, Dell and CrowdStrike help organizations connect device trust with identity protection and threat defense, creating a stronger security posture from endpoint to cloud.
Intel: Trust begins even deeper in the stack. Intel's hardware-based security technologies provide foundational protections that help establish platform integrity at the silicon level.
Combined with Dell's hardware-rooted security and CrowdStrike's security operations capabilities, organizations gain greater visibility and confidence that devices, users, and workloads are operating as expected.
Securing the Future of AI
One of the biggest themes emerging across the industry is that security is becoming increasingly identity-centric. As AI agents become participants in business workflows, organizations will need trusted ways to verify users, devices, and autonomous systems alike.
No single vendor can solve this challenge alone.
The combination of Dell's trusted devices, Intel's hardware foundation, and CrowdStrike's agentic security platform helps organizations build the resilience needed to embrace AI with confidence. Because in the AI era, every intelligent workflow is only as trustworthy as the foundation it starts from.
Learn more about how Dell, CrowdStrike, and Intel are helping organizations create a trusted foundation for secure AI innovation.
