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Dell’s 16th generation PowerEdge servers feature an enhanced Cyber Resilient Architecture that provides a hardened server design to protect, detect, and recover from cyberattacks. Since MC nodes in the APEX Cloud Platforms are built on 16th generation PowerEdge servers, the solution inherits the benefits of the Cyber Resilient Architecture.
Delivering the Cyber Resilient Architecture requires security awareness and discipline at each stage of development. This process is called the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) model, in which security is not an afterthought but is rather an integral part of the overall server design process. This design process encompasses a view of security that spans the entire server lifecycle.
We are performing vulnerability scanning, Black Duck® software composition analysis (SCA), penetration testing, threat modeling, code reviews, and more for every release of our platform, as an on-going testing and evaluation of new potential vulnerabilities.
Figure 44. Security present in every phase of a product lifecycle
Through this process, product features are conceived, designed, prototyped, implemented, set into production, deployed, and maintained, with security as a key priority. Server firmware is designed to obstruct, oppose, and counter injection of malicious code during all phases.