In today’s world, business organizations and individuals have become accustomed to accessing the information they need 24 hours a day, seven days a week, often within seconds of making a request. To illustrate, an ad marketing study conducted by Google found that 53% of website sessions are terminated if pages take longer than three seconds to load.

Simultaneously, there is a significant and growing risk to preventing your business from being able to meet these demanding goals: the rising frequency and sophistication of cyber attacks. In 2021, ransomware attacks increased by 13% year over year, as large an increase as in the previous five years combined. Unlike other types of attacks, a ransomware attacker does not have to resell or otherwise exploit the data in your network.

A 2021 analysis by Verizon reported that an attacker may be interested in interrupting your business by encrypting the data and denying access to it.

When combining the criticality of data and the growing threat, being able to manage your cybersecurity risk is more important than ever. VxRail is the market-leading Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) product, jointly engineered with VMware, with security built in at every step of the development life cycle, from the supply chain to software development, test, maintenance, and support. VxRail delivers an agile infrastructure with full stack integrity and end-to-end life cycle management to drive operational efficiencies and reduce risks, to enable your team to focus on your business.

Product security features from Dell Technologies and VMware are combined seamlessly in VxRail. This gives your business industry-leading flexibility in choosing the right options to manage your risk, enable your workforce, and deliver a seamless customer experience. In this document, we describe VxRail’s approach to security in the following sections:

1. Dell Advantages: Describes Dell Technologies’ commitment to develop secure software, secure the supply chain, and respond to security vulnerabilities
2. Protect: Provides an overview of the VxRail and VMware combined feature set, which can be enabled to avoid or stop a malicious attack
3. Detect: We describe the tools and interfaces we provide to monitor your VxRail cluster for malicious behavior or vulnerabilities
4. Recover: An overview of the Data Protection, High Availability, and Recovery features that can be enabled or integrated with your cluster to assure rapid business recovery in the event of an attack, to take the negotiating leverage away from the attacker
5. Compatible standards and certifications:VxRail’s security development life cycle is intrinsically hardened in accordance with the NIST 800-53 standards. This enables us to help your organization comply with most industry standards, such as PCI/DSS, NERC-CIP, HIPAA, ISO, and others. This section provides the certifications VxRail has achieved.
6. References: We cannot cover all the technical details in this document, but we provide additional resources for you to learn the next layers of detail.

VxRail can help manage security and business risk, handle security breaches, recover from a ransomware attack, and build secure applications. This document describes the commitment to security that Dell Technologies delivers to enable you to move forward confidently into the multi-cloud/hybrid cloud era.