By By David Ramel07/27/2026
Publication Date: 2026-07-27 00:00:00
Open Secure AI Alliance Targets Agent Security Across Multi-Vendor Clouds
NVIDIA and 36 other technology, cloud, cybersecurity and enterprise software organizations have launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry effort to develop and share open technologies for protecting software and AI agents. The initiative covers the infrastructure surrounding agents — including identity, permissions, isolation, harnesses, guardrails, logs and evaluation systems — rather than focusing only on the security of AI models.
The cloud angle is explicit in the alliance announcement. NVIDIA said open source underpins cloud computing and argued that defenders need systems they can inspect, adapt and run on infrastructure they control. The announcement also calls for security systems that work across a multi-vendor ecosystem and avoid a single point of failure.
The alliance’s 37 inaugural partners include Adobe, Capital One, Cisco, Cloudera, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Dell Technologies, HPE, Hugging Face, IBM, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NetApp, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Siemens, Snowflake and Synopsys. The group describes its objective as building an open defense stack for agents, but it has not announced a single integrated…