Zero Trust Center of Excellence and new cybersecurity offerings and services help deliver greater resilience for modern security
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) will open a Zero Trust Technology Center of Excellence in collaboration with CyberPoint International and the Maryland Innovation Security Institute (MISI) in the first half of 2023 at DreamPort, the world's flagship cybersecurity innovation facility. US Cyber Command. Dell also unveils new cybersecurity services that enable organizations to assess their Zero Trust maturity and cyber resiliency, endpoint to support hybrid work and protection of ransomware for object storage data.
Zero Trust technology is a cybersecurity model that changes the way organizations approach security, shifting from trusting only perimeter defenses to a proactive strategy that allows only known good activity across ecosystems and data pipelines. It enables organizations to better align their cybersecurity strategy across the data center, in the clouds, and at the edge. Dell aims to be a catalyst for customers to achieve Zero Trust results by facilitating the design and integration of this architecture.
“In a multi-cloud world, a security's cybersecurity strategy must go beyond its infrastructure and extend to its applications and data,” said John Roese, global CTO, Dell Technologies. “We believe that the Zero Trust strategy is the best way forward. Dell has a proven IT and security foundation, technology integration experience, and a broad global ecosystem of partners to help simplify customers' cybersecurity transformations.”
Center of Excellence for Accelerating Zero Trust Technology Adoption
With MISI, CyberPoint International and a team of small sector companies owned by women and war veterans, Dell will leverage the Zero Trust Center of Excellence at DreamPort to provide organizations with a secure data center to validate cases of use of technology. The Center of Excellence will use the Department of Defense Zero Trust Reference Architecture as a basis for organizations to test configurations before deploying them in their own environments. By orchestrating across an extensive ecosystem, Dell will offer a blueprint architecture, providing a faster path to adoption and making integration and orchestration easier for customers.
“We believe that our critical collaboration with Dell Technologies on the DreamPort Center of Excellence will drive rapid innovation and integration of Zero Trust solutions to help the US government and commercial enterprises defend against ongoing and increasingly complex cyber threats.” said Horace Jones, President, CyberPoint International.
Cybersecurity services must align with Zero Trust and reduce risk
To help organizations align with Zero Trust principles and achieve cyber resilience, dell Cybersecurity Advisory Services provide organizations with a roadmap for technology that builds on their existing cybersecurity assets. These services find and resolve security gaps, determine technologies that customers should implement, and help learn how to enable continuous surveillance and governance for long-term cyber resilience. By working with Dell, organizations have the tools and actionable insights they need to better protect their data and IT environments.
To minimize attack surfaces and better protect organizations, Dell offers a new Vulnerability Management with Dell experts who regularly scan customer environments for vulnerabilities, provide a complete picture of exposures, and help prioritize remediation efforts.
Cybersecurity offerings for business PCs support hybrid working
Because breaches happen above and below the operating system, security devices are critical for a Zero Trust-ready organization. Dell continues to enhance its portfolio with new offerings that help customers prevent, detect and resolve threats whenever they occur, and allow greater control over the IT environment:
- Hardware safeguards for the industry's most secure business PCs:i To respond to growing supply chain threats, customers can now choose to have Dell disable PC ports before shipment, which helps prevent tampering with BIOS settings. Dell is also expanding the availability of tamper evident seals to Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa to provide more physical security measures during shipment.
- Firmware protections to detect growing threats: Organizations can detect potential tampering with a PC's BIOS with new telemetry integration with Microsoft Intune, as part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Splunk consoles. From the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center, IT administrators can secure, control and configure Dell PCs, including BIOS setup and password management. These features, which Dell is first to market, will be available in a future release of Intune, helping to ensure user productivity and reduce IT complexity.
- Advanced software protections: New Dell features speed detection and remediation. In addition, a new data loss prevention offering helps protect sensitive data from unauthorized downloads to external USB storage devices, providing greater visibility and policy control over this behavior.
Enhanced cyber protection and recovery for object storage
To address the growth of data storage objects such as videos and photos, it is essential to take advantage of the latest cyber protection solutions to isolate data, intelligently detect threats and enable fast data recovery.
The platform Dell ECS Enterprise Object Storage extends cyber protection capabilities to help protect data from secure objects in an isolated cyber vault locally or in a remote environment. Accessible via an AWS S3 protocol, critical backup servers and applications can continue to access the isolated copy while still supporting legal compliance in the event that a cyber attack compromises the primary and secondary data copy. Aligned with AI-powered threat detection and immutability, the new solutions offer organizations a fast path to data recovery from ransomware and other malicious attacks.
