HCLTech, CrowdStrike Deepen Cybersecurity Partnership as Enterprises Grapple with AI Risks

HCLTech and cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike have expanded their partnership to integrate CrowdStrike’s Falcon Guardian AI detection and response capabilities with HCLTech’s cybersecurity advisory, AI governance, implementation, and managed services.

The offering will focus on securing AI applications, models, agents, identities and data, while giving enterprises greater visibility into risks arising from AI deployments.

The move comes as companies increasingly embed AI into workflows that can access corporate data, applications and systems, creating new avenues for attacks as well as new risks around how AI systems themselves are governed.

“AI is becoming a new enterprise attack surface, and securing it requires visibility and protection everywhere AI operates,” Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer, CrowdStrike, said in a statement. “CrowdStrike pioneered AI Detection and Response to secure the full AI attack surface. Together with HCLTech’s global cybersecurity expertise and services, we’re bringing these capabilities to more enterprises as they operationalise AI at scale.” 

The expanded partnership also builds on a collaboration announced in March around continuous threat exposure management, a cybersecurity approach that continuously identifies and prioritises vulnerabilities and exposures across an organisation.

“The next generation of enterprise security will require organisations to address both sides of the AI risk equation, defending against AI-powered threats while securing the AI systems they deploy,” Amit Jain, EVP and Global Head of Cybersecurity at HCLTech, added.

For HCLTech, the expanded partnership also lets it combine its cybersecurity services with a specialised security platform as demand grows for AI-specific risk management.

HCLTech has more than 223,000 employees across 60 countries and reported consolidated revenue of $14.8 billion for the 12 months ended June 2026. CrowdStrike, meanwhile, operates its Falcon cybersecurity platform across endpoint, cloud, identity, and data security.