EFF is on the front lines of the fight against tech-enabled tyranny, but we aren't alone. Our team depends on your help to fight back against the surveillance state.
One of the people who joined the fight for digital rights is EFF client Will Freeman. Will created the website DeFlock.me to reveal the dangers of automated license plate readers (ALPRs)—cameras that collect location data on every vehicle they see and upload that to a massive nationwide police database. Deflock.me turns the tables by enlisting ordinary people to track the locations of tens of thousands of ALPR cameras.
But when the police spy-tech company Flock Safety went after Will's website with legal threats citing trademark law, he saw it for what it was: an attempt to silence critics and dim the light on mass surveillance.
The company will try everything it can to downplay the criticism, but EFF will be right there demanding accountability.
"I was totally unprepared to receive a cease & desist letter. I can see how most people would be bullied into submission by a threat like that. That's when I remembered Dave Maass from the EFF introduced himself via email several weeks before, so I reached out for help," Freeman says.
And that's when EFF stepped in. Recognizing DeFlock.me as a quintessential expression of grassroots advocacy and a form of criticism protected by the U.S. First Amendment, EFF's lawyers helped Will fight back. And the Big Surveillance Tech flinched.
But these battles against Flock's Spying tools rage on. In cities around the country, privacy advocates are pressuring officials to block or end contracts for ALPRs—and winning. The company will try everything it can to downplay the criticism, but EFF will be right there demanding accountability.
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"I'm really grateful the EFF was able to step in and help. Without them, free speech would be only for those wealthy enough to defend themselves against billion dollar companies. We've grown a lot since then and are expanding our efforts to expose and push back against mass surveillance on our streets," Freeman says.
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Building on the momentum of NVIDIA GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX 2026, the conversation has moved beyond AI experimentation to the industrialization of intelligence. Organizations are rapidly deploying AI Factories – high-performance, purpose-built computing infrastructures designed to manufacture intelligence at an unprecedented scale. AI’s next phase is agentic. Autonomous AI agents are reshaping enterprise operations—and demand security architectures that can keep pace with the speed and scale of innovation. We are proud to announce the integration of Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAMwith the NVIDIA DOCA Argus framework, a breakthrough that brings real-time, AI-powered security operations directly into the heart of the NVIDIA AI factory.
By operating on the NVIDIA BlueFielddata processor, DOCA Argus provides situational awareness through real-time memory analysis at the silicon level. This allows Cortex XSIAM to detect kernel-level rootkits and "living-off-the-land" attacks without installing security agents on the host system.
This innovation builds upon our proven foundation with Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS, where AI Runtime Security is deployed natively on NVIDIA BlueField, and powered by NVIDIA DOCA, bringing defense in depth. This integration enables offload , isolation and acceleration of security in AI factories.
Purpose-Built Observability for the AI Factory
Deployed consistently across the AI factory,DOCA Argus monitors and correlates AI application processes, network telemetry, and data access to detect sophisticated anomalies that traditional tools miss. With this integration, Cortex XSIAM recognizes the high-fidelity data from DOCA Argus as a native Palo Alto Networks sensor, allowing for better decisions with the new intelligence gathered directly from the host.
By integrating Cortex XSIAM with the NVIDIA DOCA Argus framework, we leverage the innovations of two industry leaders to deliver a seamless, high-performance SecOps ecosystem for your most valuable AI assets.
Why This Integration Is a Game-Changer for SecOps
Process Introspection: Residing on NVIDIA BlueField, DOCA Argus has the unique ability to correlate network telemetry with deep process inspection.
Anomaly Detection: By analyzing traffic and host behavior simultaneously, XSIAM can detect sophisticated anomalies (e.g., lateral movement or data exfiltration) that traditional tools miss.
Unified Intelligence: Cortex XSIAM recognizes the security and alert information in this high-fidelity data, providing security teams with end-to-end visibility and dedicated security dashboards specifically for their AI infrastructure.
Native integration of DOCA Argus with XSIAM
Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS Across the NVIDIA AI Factory
The inclusion of Prisma AIRS in NVIDIA AI Factory validated design delivers a unified security platform, providing proactive, defense-in-depth security across critical layers of the AI ecosystem.
Serving as the network enforcement engine for this architecture, Prisma AIRS secures the infrastructure of the modern AI Factory. By unifying protection and visibility into a single automated fabric, it eliminates the traditional trade-off between security and agility, allowing organizations to innovate at machine speed without compromising performance or governance.
Beyond enforcement, the broader Prisma AIRS platform acts as the security blueprint for the entire enterprise AI ecosystem—consolidating fragmented point-tools to slash total cost of ownership while providing end-to-end observability from the data plane to the model layer. The platform scales dynamically alongside your AI clusters to safeguard raw datasets, build Layer 7 micro-perimeters around autonomous agents, and protect proprietary model weights from external threats—all without throttling mission-critical performance.
By deploying the AI Runtime Firewall directly on NVIDIA BlueField, we establish a foundational network security layer that is fully offloaded, isolated, and accelerated. This provides pervasive protection across the Enterprise AI Factory without sacrificing critical compute resources.
Securing the NVIDIA AI factory requires the entire Prisma AIRS suite, which secures the AI lifecycle through five specialized pillars:
AI Model Security: Protects against model tampering, malicious scripts and data exfiltration attacks before deployment.
AI Red Teaming: Advanced threat simulation and vulnerability discovery to enable the safety, security and integrity of your AI and Agents deployments.
AI Runtime Security Firewall: Protects against prompt injection, data leakage, abuse and AI-specific runtime threats across distributed inference flows.
AI Agent Gateway acts as the control plane for the AI enterprise – governing tool calls, model access and external connections. Every agent interaction is enforced through centralized policies.
Agent Identity Security assigns each agent a governed identity with precise permissions and full traceability, ensuring actions are attributable and enforceable.
A Forward-Looking Architecture: Embracing Vera NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX
Looking ahead to the next frontier of enterprise-scale agentic AI, Palo Alto Networks is closely aligning its platform approach with the NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX architecture, extending protections to AI data storage infrastructure. As AI data demands surge, high-throughput, large-scale environments require a move toward hardware-isolated, performance-neutral protection to support the rapid growth of critical AI applications.
Operating within an isolated trust domain on future BlueField-4 silicon, our inline security capabilities will maintain strict, policy-driven controls independently of the host operating system and storage systems. This co-design enables critical forward-looking innovations for data, agents, and context memory, ensuring security is offloaded, isolated and accelerated to support the next generation of the AI Factory.
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Key Takeaways
Our ongoing collaboration with NVIDIA focuses on these essential pillars for reimagining AI security:
Deliver the industry-leading security platform reinvented for the unique demands of the AI factory. High-throughput, large-scale environments require a move toward hardware-isolated and performance-neutral protection to support the rapid growth of critical AI applications. By offloading AI Runtime Firewall directly to the NVIDIA BlueField, we enable zero-latency protection and strict data governance that neutralizes threats (like model theft) while maintaining peak performance and the integrity of your proprietary models.This architecture embeds security directly into the infrastructure, out of the way of app developers.
Transform the SOC and achieve deep visibility across AI environments by leveraging Cortex XSIAM to provide real-time detections and automated response. By connecting infrastructure protection with this centralized intelligence, you can secure the AI journey, from development in the factory to operations at the secure industrial edge.
Zero-Trust for AI Infrastructure: This helps ensure that as your operations scale toward multi-agent architectures, your security footprint is fully offloaded, isolated, and accelerated to protect advanced inference flows, autonomous agents, and data pipelines without throttling performance.
Unified Platform Architecture: Beyond standalone point tools, the Prisma AIRS platform serves as a unified security fabric that spans the entire AI lifecycle—from safeguarding raw data to autonomous agents.
Deploy Bravely
The Palo Alto Networks platform approach delivers a comprehensive solution to secure an enterprise's entire AI ecosystem. By integrating Cortex XSIAM with the NVIDIA DOCA Argus framework, we are extending this comprehensive, deep visibility and protection to the very heart of the AI Factory. With this integration, security teams can leverage an agentless approach via DOCA Argus to gain deep visibility into AI systems hosts by simply downloading the content pack from the Cortex Marketplace.
The Palo Alto Networks platform secures the entire AI journey, protecting the infrastructure, intelligent applications, agents and data it produces. With the inclusion of Prisma AIRS in NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory Validated Design, we have delivered the blueprint for secure AI.
Palo Alto Networks and NVIDIA are redefining security for the AI factory. Together, we are ensuring your security architecture is as fast, scalable and innovative as the intelligence it protects, empowering you to scale AI production with reduced latency and stronger governance. Discover more through the Palo Alto Networks partner directory, or read the official press release from NVIDIA for more details.
I am incredibly proud to share that Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms for the fourth consecutive year. For us, this recognition is a testament to our team's relentless vision as we continue to define endpoint defense—from the pioneer days of XDR to the new frontier of agentic AI.
We believe our repeated recognition as a Leader is built on a single, uncompromising commitment to our customers and partners: empowering organizations with reduced overhead, rapid threat response, a strengthened security posture, and the resilient protection required to close the most critical security gaps. We are now leading the shift into the agentic era. While AI agents significantly boost enterprise productivity, they also introduce novel attack surfaces that legacy EDR tools are unable to protect. As the pioneer of XDR, we are committed to defining the next generation of cybersecurity by securing this new frontier.
Cortex® XDR is helping customers:
Secure Agentic AI with Koi: Gain unprecedented visibility, guardrails, and control over AI agents and agentic tools before they become a liability.
Stop the Unseen: Leverage battle-tested prevention powered by behavioral analytics, and industry-leading automation and response.
Unify Your Defense: Consolidate your endpoint and workspace security with a proven, four-time industry Leader.
We are incredibly proud to be recognized as a Leader once again, an acknowledgement that belongs just as much to our customers and partners as it does to us. Your trust, feedback, and real-world challenges keep us sharp and dictate our roadmap. At the end of the day, our continued leadership is built on one core promise: make each day more secure than the day before.
To get the full story and a comprehensive analysis of the endpoint security market, I invite you to read the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant report.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, By Deepak Mishra, Evgeny Mirolyubov, Nikul Patel, May 29, 2026
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In the rush to block young people from certain parts of the internet, lawmakers are creating a privacy and security nightmare for everyone. This scenario is already playing out globally. Help us stop it and keep the web open and accessible for all.
Even with the best intentions, every online age verification scheme has the same result: users are forced to reveal sensitive personal information to third parties simply to access the web. Once that valuable data is centralized, it becomes an immediate target for leaks, hacks, and misuse. This isn’t hypothetical: it hasalreadyhappenedseveraltimes.
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Thanks to our members, EFF is on the front lines fighting against online age gating and identity verification online. We’re working with lawmakers to pass better policies, educating the public, and fighting the wildfire of age verification proposals around the world. Now all we need is you.
🐝 No, It’s Not a Bug
We all want young people to be safe online, but we don’t need to trade everyone's digital rights to achieve it. These new restrictive mandates are used to justify government-led censorship and expanded surveillance. That's no accident.
Whether you trust today’s lawmakers or not, handing anyone keys to new forms of censorship and surveillance is a serious risk. Because history shows us that these powers are always abused. It’s time to demand better.
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for Endpoint Protection Platforms for the fourth consecutive year. For us, this recognition is a testament to our team's relentless vision as we continue to define endpoint defense—from the pioneer days of XDR to the new frontier of agentic AI.
