Lenovo and SentinelOne have formed a multi-year collaboration focussed on bringing AI-powered security to Lenovo devices around the world.
The cybersecurity company SentinelOne is integrating its ‘industry-leading’ Singularity Platform and ‘Purple AI’ generative AI technology into Lenovo’s ThinkShield security portfolio to autonomously protect devices from the latest threats.
According to the Chinese technology manufacturer, Lenovo, the AI capabilities will be implemented into future PC shipments, as well as upgrades to current customer devices.
Nima Baiati, Executive Director and General Manager, Cybersecurity Solutions, Intelligent Devices Group, Lenovo, talks through the protections that businesses could stand to gain as a result of this partnership: “The complexity and speed of today’s cyberthreats demand an intelligent, adaptable defence.
“SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform and Purple AI are at the forefront of this evolution, offering unparalleled, AI-powered protection.
“As Lenovo introduces groundbreaking new AI PCs to the market, we are integrating these cutting-edge AI-powered endpoint security capabilities into Lenovo’s ThinkShield security platform.
“This will enhance endpoint protection and fortify enterprise resilience against the ever-evolving threat landscape.”
AI-Powered Device Security
SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform can prevent, detect, and rapidly react to cyber-attacks at scale and with a high degree of accuracy, which can be applied to the cloud, endpoints, and identity-based surfaces like Azure AD and Active Directory.
Meanwhile, Purple AI is described on SentinelOne’s website as the “industry’s most advanced Ai security analyst” that is capable of turning natural language into structured queries, summarising indicators and event logs, assisting analysts with next questions and summary emails, and growing collaboration with shared investigation notebooks.
Lenovo points out in its related press release that SentinelOne will naturally benefit from its global sales and partner network.
To give a sense of the scale of this product partnership, Lenovo sells ‘tens of millions’ of devices, many of which will now be fitted with SentinelOne’s AI technology.
Lenovo claims that its direct sales team and channel partners can offer the latest device security to businesses of all sizes.
Patricia Wilkey, SVP and GM of Lenovo Solutions and Services Group International Sales, explains that modern enterprises need to be prepared for the unknown and ever-changing threat landscape: “Cyber resilience is incredibly important for business continuity as organisations increasingly face the unpredictable.
“Our security services collaboration with SentinelOne is another key aspect of Lenovo’s cybersecurity and cyber resilience services intended to help protect customers from anomalous threats.”
The expanded partnership with SentinelOne enables Lenovo to create a new Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service with SentinelOne’s AI and EDR capabilities from its Singularity Platform.
The partnership is another step in a long collaboration between the two companies.
In 2020, for example, the companies announced a strategic partnership, which saw SentinelOne’s Behavioral AI-powered, real-time cloud workload protection added to Lenovo’s ThinkShield.
Akhil Kapoor, Vice President Embedded Business, SentinelOne, confirms that the partnership will increase the exposure to its AI security solutions by ‘millions’: “The endpoint remains a primary vector of cyberattacks and the most critical part of a business’ ongoing operations.
“By working with market leaders like Lenovo, we can rapidly scale AI-powered security to millions of PCs and servers across the globe.
“It’s an opportunity for Lenovo and SentinelOne to give Lenovo customers a clear security and resiliency advantage by delivering intelligent devices that defend themselves in real time.”
SentinelOne’s AI-powered cybersecurity platform has also been adopted by Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and Global 2000 companies.
