CrowdStrike and Cerebras Partner to Bring Faster AI Inference to Cybersecurity

July 23, 2026 — Austin, Texas and Sunnyvale, Calif.

CrowdStrike and Cerebras Systems announced a strategic partnership. CrowdStrike will leverage Cerebras’s inference speed to help power Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR), while Cerebras standardizes on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to secure its business.

Framing

Cybersecurity is changed by AI: attacks faster and harder to detect; defenders need larger, smarter models that run fast enough for real-time protection. Partnership pairs Cerebras inference with CrowdStrike’s AI-native security for enterprises building and deploying AI at scale.

Quotes

Naor Penso, CISO, Cerebras: “Inference is where AI creates value, and cybersecurity is one of the clearest examples of where speed matters most… Every millisecond matters. It determines whether AI prevents an attack or explains what happened afterward.”

Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike: “By running Falcon AIDR models on Cerebras, we put the world’s best security AI on the world’s fastest inference… Cerebras is one of the most important names in AI compute, and they’ve standardized on the Falcon platform to secure their own innovation.”

Scope

Extends CrowdStrike AIDR (securing AI across data, models, agents, identities). Cerebras adopts Falcon for its own infrastructure security. Source attributed as Cerebras press release via AIwire.