Dell Technologies has unveiled new security-by-design and cyber resilience capabilities aimed at helping organizations secure, detect, and recover from next-generation cybersecurity threats. These enhancements tackle emerging risks posed by quantum computing and artificial intelligence by reinforcing device foundations, enhancing resilience when incidents occur, and extending threat detection into AI-driven data platforms.
As AI generates increasingly valuable data, it also equips attackers with tools to operate faster and more effectively. At the same time, advances in quantum computing threaten to undermine current encryption methods used to protect data and ensure software integrity.
Together, these evolving threats are driving demand for devices designed to withstand future attacks, stronger cyber resilience to limit the impact of incidents, and stronger detection across AI data lives. Dell addresses these challenges through a layered defense strategy across the technology stack, from the PC to the data center.
Hardening the PC foundation with quantum-ready protections
Quantum computing threatens the security foundations that protect devices today, driving a need for security by design at the deepest firmware layers. Dell is introducing quantum-ready security features to its commercial PCs to protect against attacks that can evade traditional security tools and remain hidden even after a restart or system reinstall.
The upgraded security features harden the PC’s embedded controller (EC), a core hardware security component, to verify firmware updates using signatures designed to resist future quantum-enabled attacks. This helps prevent the controller from accepting malicious or tampered firmware and reduces supply chain risk by validating updates with stronger encryption and digital signatures.
Dell’s enhanced BIOS Verification capability, aligned to post-quantum standards, detects tampering by checking the BIOS against a trusted reference stored securely in Dell’s cloud. If something does not match, this Dell-unique verification2 flags the device and triggers an alert so teams can investigate and respond.
Strengthening cyber resilience with AI-powered recovery
Hardened devices are essential for helping reduce successful attacks, and so is cyber resilience to minimize impact when incidents occur. According to Dell’s Cyber Resilience Insights research, only 40% of global organizations successfully contained and recovered from a cyberattack or incident drill with minimal impact. Dell is strengthening its PowerProtect cyber resilience portfolio to help organizations detect threats like ransomware sooner and recover faster from incidents.
Enhancements to PowerProtect Data Manager help organizations resolve recovery issues faster with an AI-powered assistant that provides contextual guidance during time-sensitive tasks, spot ransomware risk earlier with enhanced anomaly detection that scans Dell PowerStore snapshots and simplify management at scale with a unified dashboard across distributed systems.
PowerProtect Data Domain, the world’s most secure foundation for cyber resilience3, extends protection to smaller sites and strengthens data security in transit. The PowerProtect Data Domain DD3410 appliance delivers up to 2x faster backups and 46% faster data restores,4 empowering organizations to resume operations quickly after an incident. The updated Data Domain Operating System, now including support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3, helps protect data while it moves between systems and aligns with NIST requirements for encrypted connections.
Extending threat detection from endpoints to AI data platforms
Fast recovery requires early threat detection. AI workloads concentrate valuable data in platforms that traditional endpoint security can miss, creating visibility gaps that attackers exploit. Dell is extending its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service into environments where unstructured data and AI workloads live.
Building upon the MDR expansion to Dell PowerProtect, Dell MDR now extends to Dell PowerScale, providing organizations with enhanced visibility into threats targeting their AI data storage platforms. Supported by Dell’s expert cybersecurity analysts, this service enables earlier detection of suspicious activity and automates response actions, streamlining security operations and safeguarding critical data.
Additionally, Dell is introducing a new Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)-only option. This service monitors, investigates and responds to endpoint threats using advanced threat detection and next-generation antivirus capabilities. When used with Dell PCs, the service offers unique visibility into BIOS verification results. If a PC’s BIOS drifts from its trusted baseline due to a potential compromise, an alert is sent to Dell’s MDR team to investigate.
