Dell Technologies Intrinsic Security Helps Indian Businesses Build Cyber Resilience
Dell Technologies brings intrinsic security to the forefront with new solutions and services that protect customers’ data. By building security into its supply chain, services, infrastructure and devices, Dell Technologies helps customers lower risk and become more cyber resilient.
Organizations face increasing pressure to protect themselves and their customers as security risks intensify. The Dell Technologies 2020 Digital Transformation Index found that data privacy and cybersecurity concerns are the No. 1 barrier to digital transformation for the Indian businesses.2
“While embarking on the path of digital transformation, businesses have observed that security has remained an unrelenting challenge for them. Therefore, to maneuver through ever-rising security threats in order to create a successful digital footprint, Indian businesses are looking to make necessary investments in cybersecurity and privacy in the next one to three years, as per Dell Technologies 2020 Digital Transformation Index”, said Ripu Bajwa, Director and General Manager, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies India. “Security is the foundation of everything we do at Dell Technologies, and our intrinsic security approach addresses our customers’ need for trusted technology and partners to help them fend off attacks and lower business risk.”
For years, Dell Technologies has embedded hundreds of professional security engineers across the company to design and build security into its supply chain, services, infrastructure and devices. From hardware Root of Trust in PowerEdge servers and security below the operating system in Dell PCs, to end-to-end encryption in PowerMax and cyber recovery solutions in PowerProtect, security is top of mind.
Secure the supply chain and device lifecycle with end-to-end protection
More than three-quarters of organizations prioritize supply chain security during vendor selection3 to address security threats such as counterfeit components, malware and firmware tampering. Dell Technologies relieves these concerns with new supply chain security offerings and data security-focused services for Dell Technologies infrastructure and commercial PCs. The new offerings strengthen its comprehensive secure supply chain practices.
Protect PCs during transit: Dell commercial PCs – already the most secure in the industry1 – are now available with more layers of supply chain security and integrity controls. Dell Technologies SafeSupply Chain solutions are offered on top of the Dell Secure Development Lifecycle and standard supply chain security measures. New solutions include:
Validate server integrity upon arrival: The Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio now comes with Secured Component Verification, an embedded certificate that lets companies verify their servers arrive as they were ordered and built – without hardware compromise. Dell Technologies is the first server provider with a portfolio-wide solution for cryptographically verified hardware integrity.4 Also, PowerEdge servers are built with a cyber-resilient architecture, including a well-established silicon Root of Trust. The new Secured Component Verification:
Redeploy, retire and keep assets securely: Dell Technologies extends its data security-focused services to the entire Dell Technologies infrastructure portfolio:
Secure infrastructure with customization, automation, and intelligence
Forty-four percent of organizations experienced at least one hardware-level or BIOS attack over the past 12 months and 16% have had more than one attack.3 Companies need to secure infrastructure at the hardware and firmware level to help prevent certain types of vulnerabilities and malicious attacks. Dell Technologies tackles these issues with new levels of security customization, automation and intelligence for the PowerEdge server portfolio.
Customize boot security for servers: The boot process is the secure foundation for any device. If the boot process is compromised, attackers can subvert security controls to access any part of the system. With Dell Technologies server security capabilities, IT staff can customize their server boot process to reduce the threat surface and thwart boot-related attacks. This exclusive capability8 – PowerEdge UEFI Secure Boot Customization – provides advanced mitigation for industry-wide bootloader vulnerabilities. This approach is featured in a recent United States National Security Agency report.
Lockdown servers to protect against threats: PowerEdge servers’ integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) offers automated server management both at the server and remotely. With iDRAC, customers can enable or disable a system lockdown without having to reboot. This Dell-only security feature9 prevents unintentional or malicious changes to the server’s firmware and critical configuration data. The newest release – iDRAC9 – extends the lockdown capability to include network interface controllers, providing customers more control over the lockdown. The latest release also:
