Building Trust Into the Next Generation of AI Agents

By Rob Thomas | Senior Vice President, IBM Software and Chief Commercial Officer

September 28, 2026

Today, NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system design to strengthen AI security from agent testing to deployment, helping organizations secure and govern AI agents as they take on more autonomous work.

It's the right move at the right moment, and IBM is proud to support this effort, from agent identity and credentials to infrastructure, storage and hybrid cloud. Trust in AI agents requires more than model guardrails. It requires all of these capabilities working together, including with:

• IBM Agent Identity, currently in Public Preview, and HashiCorp Vault now integrate with NVIDIA OpenShell™, giving every agent a verified identity and only the access it needs.
• IBM Identity Protection helps clients find and monitor every agent, including the ones they didn't know they had.
• IBM Storage is integrating NVIDIA BlueField-4 directly at the hardware level in IBM Fusion, adding another layer of protection for the data agents access.
• Red Hat OpenShift provides the platform to run governed agents across the hybrid cloud, with support for NVIDIA BlueField DPUs. Red Hat is working with NVIDIA to integrate BlueField™ and OpenShell™ which offloads and isolates networking, security, and other infrastructure services from tenant workloads, provide zero-trust security, with real-time threat detection, isolation, and runtime protection directly at the infrastructure and kernel layers.