NVIDIA, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and over 30 industry leaders have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance, an initiative aimed at creating and sharing open-source tools to enhance AI safety and security. The project, announced on July 27, 2026, builds upon the Linux Foundation’s Akrites initiative and OpenSSF community efforts, focusing on remediation and disclosure of vulnerabilities through transparent, community-driven technologies. The Alliance's mission revolves around a key tension in AI security: whether critical infrastructure defenses will rely on opaque, closed systems or open models that any defender can inspect, adapt, and deploy.
The Alliance’s founding members include cloud computing, cybersecurity, enterprise software, and AI research entities such as Adobe, Cisco, Cloudflare, Databricks, Dell, Elastic, HPE, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, and Snowflake.
Key technical contributions are: - NVIDIA's NOOA framework - the NVIDIA Labs Object-Oriented Agent project, now available on GitHub, designed to make agent behavior easier to trace, audit, and govern within harness architectures. Effective cybersecurity demands comprehensive attention across all components of an agent stack: identity verification, access permissions, security harnesses, guardrails, logging mechanisms, and evaluation frameworks. The Alliance invites governments, enterprises, and researchers to contribute to shared infrastructure, including datasets, evaluation frameworks, and red-teaming tools, positioning open collaboration as the cornerstone for AI-era cyber resilience.
