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Dell Technologies has unveiled new cybersecurity services that allow organisations to assess their Zero Trust and cyber resilience maturity, endpoint security solutions to support hybrid work, and ransomware protection for object storage data.

Zero Trust is a cybersecurity model that shifts how organisations approach security from relying solely on perimeter defenses to a proactive strategy that only allows known good activity across ecosystems and data pipelines.

It allows organisations to better align their cybersecurity strategy across the data centre, clouds and at the edge.

Dell aims to serve as a catalyst for customers to achieve Zero Trust outcomes by making the design and integration of this architecture easier.

Cybersecurity services to align with Zero Trust and reduce risk

To help organisations align to Zero Trust principles and achieve cyber resiliency, Dell Cybersecurity Advisory Services provide organisations a roadmap to Zero Trust that builds on their existing cybersecurity assets.

These services find and address security gaps, determine advanced technologies customers should implement, and help them learn how to enable continuous vigilance and governance for long-term cyber resiliency.

By working with Dell, organisations have the tools and actionable insights they need to better secure their data and IT environments.

To minimise attack surfaces and better protect organisations, Dell offers a new Vulnerability Management service with Dell experts who regularly scan customer environments for vulnerabilities, provide a full picture of exposures and help prioritise patching efforts.

Commercial PC cybersecurity offerings support hybrid work

With breaches happening above and below the operating system, secure devices are foundational to a Zero Trust-ready organisation.

Dell continues to enhance its portfolio with new offerings that help customers prevent, detect and respond to threats wherever they occur, and allow greater control of the IT environment:

• Hardware protections for the industry’s most secure commercial PCs: To address growing supply chain threats, customers can now opt for Dell to disable PC ports prior to shipment, which helps prevent BIOS settings tampering. Dell is also expanding availability of tamper-evident seals to Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa to offer more physical security measures during shipment.
• Firmware protections to detect growing threats: Organisations can detect potential tampering of a PC’s BIOS with the new integration of telemetry between Microsoft Intune, as part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, and Splunk consoles. Within the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin centre, IT administrators can secure, control and configure Dell PCs, including BIOS configuration and password management. These capabilities, which Dell is first to market with, will be available in a future release of Intune, helping ensure user productivity while reducing IT complexity.
• Advanced software protections: New capabilities from Dell speed threat detection and remediation. Additionally, a new data loss prevention offering helps protect sensitive data from unauthorised downloads onto external USB storage devices, providing greater visibility and policy control on this behaviour.

Enhanced cyber protection and recovery for object storage

To address the growth of object storage data, such as videos and photographs, it is critical to take advantage of the latest cyber protection solutions to isolate data, intelligently detect threats and enable fast data recovery.

The Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage platform expands cyber protection capabilities to help secure object data to an isolated cyber vault residing locally or in a remote environment.

Accessible through the AWS S3 protocol, critical applications and backup servers can continue to access the isolated copy while supporting legal compliance in the event of a cyberattack compromising the primary and secondary data copy.

Together with AI-powered threat detection and immutability, the new solution provides organisations a rapid path to data recovery from ransomware and other malicious attacks.