Cybersecurity is a growing priority for organizations. With growing concerns, demands, and regulations, the need to address the evolving security requirements is vital. Attackers continue to find 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:

• A ransomware attack occurred every 11 seconds in 2021.[1]
• 84% of IT leaders report that data loss prevention is more challenging with a remote workforce.[2]
• More than 60% of companies have experienced a data compromise due to an exploited vulnerability.[3]
• The average cost of a cybercrime for an organization is $13 million USD.[4]
• The total global impact of cybercrime is 8 trillion USD.[5]

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:

• Identify
• Protect
• Detect
• Respond
• Recover

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 APEX AIOps Infrastructure Observability .