Hardening AI Factories with Spectro Cloud’s Secure AI-Native Architecture (SAINA)

As AI workloads scale across data centers and the edge, infrastructure and data security are becoming just as important as performance. The rise of multi-tenant, regulated, and mission-critical AI environments means that organizations can’t afford to compromise on trust.

That’s why we’re excited to announce support for NVIDIA BlueField® DPUs as part of our Secure AI-Native Architecture (SAINA) for NVIDIA AI Factories. 

SAINA extends Spectro Cloud’s mission-grade protections to the next generation of AI infrastructure: PaletteAI and PaletteAI Secure.

With this integration, enterprises and government organizations, and sovereign clouds can safely scale their AI initiatives, combining infrastructure acceleration with zero-trust enforcement and FIPS 140-3 cryptographic compliance for data centers.

Building AI factories on a trusted foundation

Spectro Cloud’s SAINA is built on the PaletteAI Secure platform and combines NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, the newly announced BlueField-4 DPUs, and the NVIDIA DOCA™ software framework to deliver infrastructure isolation, zero-trust enforcement, and compliance across the full AI stack.

Using PaletteAI’s one-click provisioning, teams can rapidly deploy secure, policy-driven environments. The combination of BlueField, DOCA, and DPF Zero Trust extends protection to runtime and data pipelines, while accelerating compute and networking at scale.

The result is a trusted foundation for AI factories via an infrastructure that’s both high-performance and hardened by design.

Key security pillars of the Secure AI Native Architecture 

Isolation and access control

• Zero Trust Deployment – Enforces workload isolation and identity verification at the DPU level using policies managed through the external DPF Control Plane.
• Secure Multi-Tenancy – Protects workloads across multiple users and organizations.
• Edge-to-Cloud Consistency – Maintains unified security and access rules across environments.

Data protection

• Confidential Computing – Ensures data privacy during AI model training and inference.
• Data Encryption Everywhere – Extends encryption in transit, at rest, and in use, while adhering to FIPS 140-3 standards.

Threat defense

• Supply Chain Security – Protects container images, dependencies, and ML models from tampering.
• Runtime Threat Detection & Response – Continuously monitors AI workloads to detect and stop breaches in real time.
• Breach Alerts & Mitigation – Enables rapid notification and automated remediation when threats occur.

Governance and compliance

• Policy-Driven Governance – Enforces alignment with standards such as FedRAMP, FIPS, and other regulatory frameworks.
• Audit & Observability – Provides complete traceability of data access, model execution, and system events.

Scaling AI securely and confidently

The Secure AI Native Architecture is now available for organizations adopting NVIDIA AI Factories through PaletteAI Secure. It is deployable across SaaS, private cloud, and air-gapped environments, bringing consistent, zero-trust security to every layer of your AI stack.

A history of secure innovation

Spectro Cloud has long provided government and regulated organizations with a fully FIPS 140-3 compliant solution through Palette VerteX, ensuring secure and standards-based Kubernetes management.

Palette VerteX has been successfully deployed in environments supporting FIPS 140-3 (#5061), DoD, and Intel classified environments, meeting required STIGs and achieving Authority to Operate (ATO). It is also available as a FedRAMP Low and Moderate (Army Sponsored) SaaS offering for Civilian Agencies and State/Local Governments.

PaletteAI Secure, being announced at GTC-DC, extends this capability to fully support the NVIDIA portfolio of GPUs, DPUs, and NVAIE components, as well as Spectrum-X 1.x (and the upcoming 2.x official Kubernetes support) and Zero Trust architectures. 

Spectro Cloud has a longstanding commitment to security and compliance, holding ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications.

To learn more about SAINA, Palette AI Secure, and explore resources on our FIPS compliance and other certifications, visit  www.palette-ai.com/secure