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Dell Technologies has introduced new security by design and cyber resilience capabilities to help organizations secure devices, detect threats, and recover from next-generation risks in the AI era, including emerging quantum computing threats.
AI is creating more valuable data while giving attackers new ways to operate faster. Quantum computing threatens to weaken current encryption methods used to protect data and verify software integrity. Dell Technologies is responding with a layered defense approach that hardens device foundations, strengthens cyber resilience, and extends threat detection into AI environments.
Quantum computing poses a significant risk to existing security foundations by potentially breaking traditional encryption and digital signatures. Dell is introducing quantum-ready features at the deepest firmware layers of its commercial PCs to protect against attacks that could evade conventional tools and persist even after restarts or system reinstalls.
The upgraded security features strengthen the PC’s embedded controller to verify firmware updates using post-quantum signatures. This prevents acceptance of malicious or tampered firmware and reduces supply chain risks through stronger encryption and digital signatures.
Dell’s enhanced BIOS Verification capability, aligned to post-quantum standards, checks the BIOS against a trusted cloud-stored reference. Any mismatch triggers an alert for immediate investigation and response.
Only 40% of global organizations successfully contain and recover from cyberattacks with minimal impact, according to Dell’s Cyber Resilience Insights research. To address this, Dell is enhancing its PowerProtect portfolio to detect ransomware signals earlier and simplify recovery at scale.
Updates to PowerProtect Data Manager include an AI-powered assistant that offers contextual guidance during recovery tasks, enhanced anomaly detection across Dell PowerStore snapshots for earlier ransomware risk identification, and a unified dashboard for managing distributed systems.
The PowerProtect Data Domain DD3410 appliance provides up to 2x faster backups and 46% faster data restores while extending protection to smaller sites. The updated Data Domain Operating System now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3, aligning with NIST requirements for secure data transmission.
AI workloads concentrate valuable data in platforms that traditional endpoint security often overlooks, creating exploitable visibility gaps. Dell is extending its Managed Detection and Response service to Dell PowerScale, enabling enhanced visibility into threats targeting AI data storage environments.
Supported by Dell’s cybersecurity analysts, the expanded MDR service allows earlier detection of suspicious activity and automates response actions. A new Endpoint Detection and Response-only option is also available, offering advanced threat detection and next-generation antivirus capabilities with unique BIOS verification visibility on Dell PCs.
“Quantum computing will break the encryption and digital signatures protecting data today, while agentic AI raises the stakes by increasing the value of data and autonomously shares it across teams and organizations. We've been preparing for both shifts for almost a decade through our investments in post-quantum cryptography and our approach to cyber resilience and security by design. We are continuing to bring these protections across our portfolio to help organizations navigate emerging technologies and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threats,” said John Roese, global CTO and chief AI officer, Dell Technologies.
“In luxury hospitality, even a brief IT disruption during peak operations can have a major impact. We work with heavy workloads, and PowerProtect Data Manager’s Transparent Snapshots make a real difference. We get no business disruption, lower risk of data loss and the VM backup times are cut in half. Coupled with our PowerProtect Data Domain appliance, deduplication and compression optimize bandwidth, remote backups are seamless and storage requirements are drastically reduced,” said Javier González Belinchón, director, Corporate Infrastructure & Operations, Palladium Hotel Group.
“As AI adoption expands, security teams need to protect more high-value data in areas where traditional controls may not provide adequate visibility into how threats move across AI workloads and data platforms. Dell’s approach reflects this broader cyber resilience strategy aimed at reducing risk, deepening security visibility and helping organizations recover more effectively when incidents occur,” said Fernando Montenegro, vice president & practice lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience, Futurum.
Dell Technologies continues to deliver layered security enhancements across PCs, data protection, and detection services to help organizations build stronger defenses against quantum and AI-driven threats.
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