Helping enterprises bridge the gap between AI innovation and security, Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) today announced its selection as a strategic partner for World Wide Technology (WWT)’s AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR). This collaboration positions Akamai as a foundational security architecture for the "AI factories" being built by WWT and accelerated by NVIDIA.

As enterprises rush to adopt AI, they often face a "security tax," where traditional security agents compete with AI workloads for critical compute resources. Through ARMOR, Akamai and WWT are solving this challenge by integrating Akamai’s software intelligence directly with NVIDIA BlueField data processing units (DPUs).