In the current digital landscape, the blending of artificial intelligence (AI) with IT and OT security is becoming increasingly essential for both resilience and regulatory compliance.

Deloitte EMEA, is at the forefront of this transformation, delivering AI powered cyber defence capabilities that are specifically designed for the unique challenges of critical infrastructure, industrial environments and AI factories. The digital infrastructure of today differs from that of yesterday, AI infrastructure is an emergent area in which high performance compute operations, paired with the ability to process large volumes of data become a critical requirement. Organisations that operate essential services and are increasingly looking to build facilities dedicated to AI workloads, are now in the spotlight, going against implementation complexities and costly revisions to technology operating models stemming from:

To address these challenges, Deloitte EMEA proposes an approach that combines NVIDIA AI infrastructure and software solutions with Deloitte deep expertise in cybersecurity and regulatory compliance. This approach reduces operational complexity and cost while delivering a forward looking security architecture for organisations.

NVIDIA has released the 4th generation of its NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU) offering a unique platform that allows organisations to offload and consolidate security functions onto a dedicated piece of hardware. The NVIDIA BlueField- 4, alongside its software stack is designed to deliver prebuilt, containerised services for real-time risk detection, orchestration and data acceleration, simplifying the security capability deployment process, enabling enterprises and service providers to scale AI securely and efficiently. The BlueField also allow for the rapid implementation of security capabilities in industrial environments, minimising disruptions and operational downtimes, achieving more in a singular maintenance window.

NVIDIA BlueField- 4 dramatically expands the capabilities of AI‑driven factories by delivering a hardware‑accelerated, high‑throughput foundation for cyber security operations running inference and analytics directly at the edge. With six‑times the compute power of its predecessor and an ultra-fast 800 Gb/s data lane, the platform supports real‑time threat detection and AI inference, all on‑premise, keeping sensitive data local, and contributing to enhanced security and regulatory compliance. BlueField- 4 also offers a built-in zero‑trust architecture, bare‑metal isolation capability, and the software services and tools on the card enable microservices architecture which simplifies orchestration of cyber‑defence workflows. By combining AI compute with data processing at the edge, BlueField- 4 not only enables easy micro-segmentation but also allows organisations to keep critical workloads close to the source of data, thereby reducing bandwidth costs and improving response times, as well as providing a secure, scalable foundation for the next generation of intelligent, connected AI factories.

Deloitte approach combines regulation-ready Cyber Security Reference Architecture enabled by infrastructure-as-code templates deployed on the DPU, provisioning core security services as well as other essential services needed for AI factories or industrial sites. Moreover, this approach includes a Deloitte engineered multi‑agent AI system to support risk and compliance operations, delivering real‑time actionable insights to operating personnel. This architecture allows for the processing of diverse log sources at the edge, feeding enriched telemetry to machine-learning pipelines built on NVIDIA Morpheus framework, enabling advanced anomaly detection and an AI-assisted analysis of alerts, generating insights that support data driven decision making. Such AI-enabled detection and response capability allows organisations to significantly reduce both the mean time to detect (MTTD) and the mean time to contain (MTTC) security incidents, taking security capabilities to the next level.

The Deloitte approach is engineered to help organisations roll out security capabilities at scale and with pace, optimising the expenditure of organisation-wide security transformations. Without investing heavily in training and increasing operational expenditure trying to close the security skills gap, AI-assisted SecOps and risk and compliance capabilities also assist in streamlining regulatory adherence (e.g. NERC or NIS2).

As cyber threats evolve and the regulatory landscapes tighten, the collaboration between Deloitte and NVIDIA is uniquely positioned to protect critical infrastructure and AI factories of the future. By integrating NVIDIA hardware and software with Deloitte expertise, we are delivering solutions that not only meet today’s demands but also anticipate tomorrow’s challenges.

Contact us to learn more about this approach, and join us at our 2025 client round-table where Deloitte UK x NVIDIA x UK Critical National Infrastructure operators get together to discuss the security challenges and how AI can assist in solving them.