HCLTECH NSE filing

HCLTech and CrowdStrike Expand Partnership for AI Security and Resilience

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HCLTech and CrowdStrike are expanding their strategic partnership to enhance AI security and resilience. The collaboration integrates CrowdStrike Falcon® Guardian with HCLTech’s AI Security and Resilience services, focusing on securing AI applications, models, identities, and data.

Why it matters

The expanded partnership focuses on a critical and growing area (AI security) and leverages the strengths of two significant players in the technology and cybersecurity sectors. This could lead to enhanced solutions for enterprises adopting AI.

The market read

The announcement highlights an expansion of a strategic partnership focused on advancing AI security and resilience, which is a positive development for both companies and their clients.

HCL Technologies (HCLTech) and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) have announced an expansion of their strategic partnership aimed at advancing AI security and resilience. This collaboration involves integrating CrowdStrike Falcon® Guardian with HCLTech’s AI Security and Resilience services.

Through this partnership, HCLTech and CrowdStrike will combine Falcon Guardian's AI detection and response capabilities with HCLTech's cybersecurity advisory, AI governance, implementation, and managed services. These services, delivered via HCLTech's Cybersecurity Fusion Centers, are designed to help enterprises secure AI applications, models, identities, and data, while also improving visibility into emerging risks.

This expansion builds upon the Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) services launched in March 2026, bringing AI security more deeply into enterprise security operations. The combined offering leverages CrowdStrike's AIDR capabilities and HCLTech's TRiBe framework for AI trust, risk governance, and resilience, along with VERITY Frontier AI Resilience, a model to identify, validate, and mitigate cyber exposures across hybrid environments.

Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike, stated that securing the AI attack surface requires visibility and protection everywhere AI operates, and their partnership with HCLTech aims to deliver these capabilities as enterprises operationalize AI at scale. Amit Jain, EVP and Global Head of Cybersecurity at HCLTech, added that the next generation of enterprise security requires addressing both AI-powered threats and securing deployed AI systems, with the partnership enabling organizations to scale AI securely and responsibly.

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