Dell Technologies Expands Cybersecurity, Resilience for AI Era, Emerging Quantum Risks
Helping Organisations Strengthen Device Trust, Improve Cyber Resilience, and Detect Threats in AI Data Platforms
Dell Technologies has introduced new security by design and cyber resilience capabilities to help organisations secure, detect, and recover from next-generation threats. The enhancements address emerging risks from quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) by hardening device foundations, strengthening cyber resilience when incidents occur, and extending threat detection into AI data platforms.
Artificial Intelligence is creating more valuable data and giving attackers new ways to move faster. Quantum computing will accelerate that shift by weakening the encryption technology that organisations use today to protect data and verify software integrity.
These converging threats are driving demand for devices built to resist future attacks, cyber resilience to minimise incident impact and stronger detection across environments where AI data lives. Dell is addressing these security challenges through a layered defense approach across the technology stack, from the PC to the data centre.
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 verification flags the device and triggers an alert so teams can investigate and respond.
Dell Is Strengthening Cyber Resilience with AI-Powered Recovery
Hardened devices are essential for helping reduce successful attacks, and so is cyber resilience to minimise impact when incidents occur. According to Dell’s Cyber Resilience Insights research, only 40% of global organisations successfully contained and recovered from a cyberattack or incident drill with minimal impact. Dell is strengthening its PowerProtect cyber resilience portfolio to help organisations detect threats like ransomware sooner and recover faster from incidents.
Enhancements to PowerProtect Data Manager help organisations 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 resilience, 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, empowering organisations 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.
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.
