Dell has announced a couple of new services and updates to its existing software to help clients to stay safe against the latest trends of cyberattacks – Hackers on’t just steal your data anymore, they knock out the systems you need to run your business.
AI environments are especially tempting targets because they pile up sensitive data and open new attack surfaces most security plans weren’t designed for. Identity platforms are just as critical, since they control access to everything, yet recovery plans often treat them as an afterthought. Hence, Dell is expanding its cybersecurity and resilience portfolio to cover both.
First, Security Hardening for Dell AI Factory has Dell experts look at the physical, virtual, and application layers, spot configuration risks that could affect AI workloads, and hand over prioritized recommendations. Meanwhile, Resilience Operations for AI, available now, starts by identifying your most critical AI capabilities and then builds the recovery policies and procedures to protect them.
On the software side, the PowerProtect AI Assistant gets a better conversational interface for managing assets, tasks, restores, and reporting. It sends proactive daily briefs that flag risks early, and a human-in-the-loop approval workflow lets your team review actions before they happen. The expanded capabilities are available now.
On the other hand, New PowerProtect identity resilience capabilities let you restore a clean, trusted copy of Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and Okta, so you don’t have to rebuild access controls by hand after an incident. Dell Managed Detection and Response for Identity adds round-the-clock monitoring and response for threats like suspicious sign-ins, compromised accounts, and privilege misuse, and Dell experts can trigger automated containment when they spot defined attack patterns. Both are available now.
As for the infrastructure side, tighter integration between PowerProtect and Dell PowerScale will automatically start, schedule, and manage retention lock local snapshots for quick recovery, and PowerScale SmartSync can sync snapshots to Dell ObjectScale for an extra recovery copy and long-term retention. That lands in December 2026.
Then there’s the quantum angle. The concern is harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks, where stolen data gets stored until quantum computing can crack today’s encryption. Through the latest PowerStore software, it adds quantum-safe data-in-flight encryption over Fibre Channel when used with supported Dell PowerEdge servers and configurations, and it’s due in November 2026. Dell’s Post-Quantum Readiness Assessment, also coming in November, maps cryptographic exposure across your infrastructure and devices, then ranks risks by criticality and prioritizes migration steps.
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