Dell Technologies is expanding its cyber resilience portfolio with new services for AI environments, identity platform recovery, and quantum-safe encryption in PowerStore.
With this announcement, Dell is targeting the three areas where, according to the company, attackers are striking more frequently. At the core remains PowerProtect, Dell’s data protection and cyber recovery portfolio. “Organizations are trying to protect their AI environments, identity systems and infrastructure with tools and strategies that were designed for yesterday’s threats,” says Simon Jelley, vice president of Cyber Resilience at Dell Technologies.
Identity as a recovery point
New identity resilience capabilities in PowerProtect allow organizations to restore a clean, trusted copy of Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and Okta. This means organizations don’t need to manually reestablish access rights after an incident. In addition, Dell is launching Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for Identity. This service monitors 24/7 for suspicious authentications, compromised accounts, and privilege abuse. If the service detects predefined attack patterns, Dell experts can initiate automated response actions.
For AI infrastructure, Dell is introducing two services. Security Hardening for Dell AI Factory assesses configuration risks across the physical, virtual, and application layers and provides prioritized recommendations. Resilience Operations for AI identifies an organization’s most critical AI applications and proposes recovery procedures.
The PowerProtect AI Assistant is also being expanded. The conversational interface provides daily briefings on potential risks. This follows a human-in-the-loop workflow: teams approve actions before execution.
Preparing for quantum
Notably, there is a strong focus on Post-Quantum Cryptography. The latest PowerStore software provides quantum-safe encryption of data-in-flight over Fibre Channel, in combination with supported PowerEdge servers. This is designed to protect against “harvest-now, decrypt-later” attacks, in which stolen data is stored until quantum computers can break current encryption. Previously, Dell introduced additional cybersecurity features to the platform with PowerStore 4.3. The new Post-Quantum Readiness Assessment identifies cryptographic vulnerabilities and prioritizes risks by urgency.
In addition, PowerProtect integrates more closely with PowerScale. Snapshots with retention lock are automatically created and managed. Via SmartSync, you can synchronize them to ObjectScale for an additional recovery copy and long-term retention.
The identity resilience features, MDR for Identity, Resilience Operations for AI, and the expansion of the AI Assistant, are available immediately. Security Hardening for AI Factory will follow later this month. The PowerStore update and the Post-Quantum Readiness Assessment will be released in November, and the PowerScale integration in December.
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