Cybersecurity is a growing priority for organizations. With growing concerns, demands, and regulations, the need to address the evolving security requirements is vital. Attackers are continually finding new creative techniques to infiltrate IT infrastructures to penetrate existing security measures. In addition to external threats, there is also the potential of internal threats from disgruntled or compromised employees or contractors. These threats to organizations have negative economic consequences:
In addition to immediate economic consequences, loss of organizational reputation may be even more damaging because its impact can extend over many years. The cost of a data breach can have immediate and lasting effects for organizations of all sizes and across all industries.
Dell takes a comprehensive approach to cyber resiliency with a framework that helps organizations achieve their security objectives and requirements.
The Dell cybersecurity framework aligns with the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) Cybersecurity framework and consists of the following functions:
This paper discusses data services and solutions that are related to Dell PowerStore that safeguard sensitive and mission-critical data. It is divided into the following five sections: Authentication and Access, Data Security, Communications Security, Auditing, and CloudIQ.
[1] Estimated for 2021, Cybersecurity Ventures: https://cybersecurityventures.com/cybercrime-damage-costs-10-trillion-by-2025/.
[2] Tessian, The State of DLP - Why DLP Has Failed and What the Future Looks Like, May 2020.
[3] Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper Commissioned by Dell, BIOS Security – The Next Frontier for Endpoint Protection, June 2019.
[4] Accenture Insights, Ninth Annual Cost of Cybercrime Study March 2019 https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/security/cost-cybercrime-study.
[5] Estimated for 2021, Cybersecurity Ventures: https://cybersecurityventures.com/cybercrime-damage-costs-10-trillion-by-2025/.