Dell boosts cybersecurity for AI and identity

Dell (DELL) Technologies has expanded its cybersecurity and resilience portfolio with new services and capabilities designed to protect AI environments, identity systems and storage infrastructure. The announcement focuses on emerging attack surfaces created by accelerated digital adoption and AI deployments, and on strengthening the resilience of systems that organizations rely on for critical operations.

For AI environments, Dell is expanding its Services portfolio and PowerProtect capabilities to simplify cyber resilience operations. New AI-specific offerings include Security Hardening for Dell AI Factory, where experts assess physical, virtual and application layers, identify configuration risks that could affect AI workloads and provide prioritized recommendations.

A separate Resilience Operations for AI service works with organizations to identify their most critical AI capabilities and build recovery policies and procedures around them. This approach is intended to deliver a prioritized plan for which AI applications to protect and how to recover them when disruption occurs.

Dell has upgraded its PowerProtect platform with new capabilities aimed at managing cyber resilience more efficiently. The PowerProtect AI Assistant now offers an expanded conversational interface for managing assets, tasks, restores and reporting across an organization’s environment.

The assistant can produce daily briefs that highlight potential risks and incorporates a human-in-the-loop approval workflow so teams can review actions before they are executed. These enhancements are intended to streamline oversight of resilience operations while maintaining control over automated processes.

New PowerProtect identity resilience capabilities allow organizations to restore a clean, trusted copy of their identity platforms, including Active Directory, Microsoft (MSFT) Entra ID and Okta. Instead of manually rebuilding access controls after an incident, companies can return identity platforms and access controls to a trusted state.

Dell has also introduced Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for Identity, providing 24x7 monitoring and response for identity threats. The service tracks suspicious authentication activity, compromised accounts and privilege misuse, and when defined attack patterns are detected, Dell experts can initiate automated response actions to help contain the threat.

On the infrastructure side, Dell is deepening integration between PowerProtect and Dell PowerScale. The enhanced integration automatically initiates, schedules and manages retention-locked local snapshots for rapid recovery, while PowerScale SmartSync support enables synchronization of snapshots to Dell ObjectScale for an additional recovery copy and long-term retention.

The latest PowerStore software introduces quantum-safe encryption for data in transit over Fibre Channel when used with supported PowerEdge servers and configurations. This is designed to protect data against harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks, addressing concerns that data stolen today could be decrypted once quantum computing advances.

Dell is also offering a Post-Quantum Readiness Assessment that identifies cryptographic exposure across IT infrastructure and devices, ranks risks by criticality and prioritizes migration steps. The identity resilience capabilities, MDR for Identity, Resilience Operations for AI and the expanded PowerProtect AI Assistant are available now, while the new PowerStore software and the assessment are scheduled for availability this month, followed by PowerProtect–PowerScale snapshot orchestration in December.