Until recently, the CPU conducted most of the work done by a computer.
Increasingly, specialised chips perform targeted tasks safer, cheaper and faster. Nvidia, a technology provider, wanted to know the role Data Processing Units (DPUs) play in cybersecurity risk mitigation when applied to customers who collaborate widely and are compute-intensive (e.g. they utilise AI at scale).
As an early customer, they engaged prior to establishing the Innate Innovation brand, trading as consultants through Monash University. Our role was to facilitate strategic deployment of scarce pre-general-availability equipment to test key selling points and explore the market. See the Nvidia press release.
Innate Innovation discovered Nvidia's customers are heroes needing halos to provide ever-increasing levels of cybersecurity, data protection & other priorities of the social consciousness. However, these protections risk increasing workforce effort or overly consuming the customer's compute-intensive resources. Hence customers face an increasing complexity of increasing protections whilst also maintaining workforce productivity, satisfaction, and, thus, workforce retention.
DPUs offer a technical basis to mitigate all these risks. However, the challenge becomes acquiring the experience, intuition and leadership to holistically implement this novel technology for business needs (systems integration of the highly innovative). To test this data governance narrative, we facilitated and oversaw the safe experimentation of DPUs in real-world settings using early ports of well-known cybersecurity tools and bespoke data protections coded using Nvidia's APIs.
Arik Rostal, Global head of Business Development Cybersecurity, NVIDIA
"Forward thinking and innovative. Steve Quenette (founder and principal) is constantly researching and exploring ways to leverage leading technologies to tackle today’s business challenges. He was one of the first to understand and apply our revolutionary DPU technology to perform cybersecurity on advanced applications."
