NVIDIA Introduces New DOCA Security Capabilities for Vera BlueField-4 STX

NVIDIA said it has introduced new security capabilities for Vera BlueField-4 STX, with security controls designed to be enforced in silicon as data moves and context is accessed for agentic AI.

The company framed storage as a control point for agentic AI systems that read, write, and share business data and context memory without direct human oversight. It said the additions focus on protecting AI agents, context memory, and file-based access within the Vera BlueField-4 STX environment.

The update relies on a unified NVIDIA DOCA security stack running on BlueField-4 silicon. NVIDIA DOCA Vault and DOCA Argus provide capabilities for zero-trust file access and visibility into agent behavior and AI workload activity, while DOCA Flow provides network traffic isolation to protect sensitive data across multi-tenant AI environments. NVIDIA said it supports inspection and governance of interactions between agents, data, and context memory inline.

Vera BlueField-4 STX extends an STX-accelerated AI-native storage foundation, and NVIDIA said DOCA enables runtime threat detection up to 1,000x faster than existing agentless runtime solutions. The company also said the platform enforces network and file access policies at speeds of up to 800Gb/s. “Agentic AI turns enterprise data into a living, real-time system — and that system must be protected where data moves, where context is stored and where agents act,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “With Vera BlueField-4 STX, NVIDIA and its ecosystem are building secure-by-design storage infrastructure that enforces trust in silicon at the speed of AI.”

NVIDIA said STX-based platforms built on the expanded DOCA capabilities are expected to be available from partners in the second half of 2026.