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Unstructured storage systems house your most critical data
Unstructured data is a prime target for cyber attacks. There are three main reasons why:
Value
Data includes sensitive financials, PII, customer lists, intellectual property, trade secrets, and more.
Volume
Unstructured data comprises 90% of total data stored by an organization.
Vulnerabilities
Unstructured data is often easily accessible, highly distributed, and inadequately protected.
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Protect: Proactive protection and risk assessment
Principles of Dell Unstructured Data Solutions' data protection strategy:
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Strong cyber-security starts with Zero Trust.
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A next-gen storage foundation is critical to securing your environment.
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Protecting sensitive data with an air-gapped vault is essential.
Strong cybersecurity starts with Zero Trust.
Have you implemented a Zero Trust security framework across your business? If not, you may be relying on traditional perimeter-based security measures incapable of protecting data against evolving cyber threats and the increasing complexity of modern IT environments.
Key questions to ask
Implementing Zero Trust enhances your security posture by assuming all network traffic, users, and devices are potentially malicious. By applying strict access controls, continuous monitoring, and strong authentication, Zero Trust minimizes the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access. Connect with a Dell expert to learn how you can implement Zero Trust.
Assess your current cybersecurity state through the lens of Zero Trust with the help of Dell experts.
A next-generation storage foundation is critical to securing your environment.
Hardened security is key when it comes to your infrastructure. It is imperative to build a modern, secure storage environment with capabilities like authentication, encryption, and auditing.
Dell’s unstructured data storage software and appliances such as PowerScale OneFS and ECS have built-in cybersecurity capabilities like Secure Boot, automated role-based access controls,write once, read many (WORM) immutability, to ensure data is protected.
Every Dell product is designed according to a baseline set of security standards to ensure easy integration into existing organizations’ infrastructure. As the world’s most cybersecure scale-out NAS1 and object storage2 solutions, PowerScale and ECS respectively can be your secure storage foundation.
- Based on Dell analysis comparing cyber-security software capabilities offered for Dell PowerScale vs. competitive products, September 2022.
- Based on Dell analysis comparing cyber-security software capabilities offered for Dell ECS vs. competitive products, September 2022.
Protecting sensitive data with an air-gapped vault is essential.
Even if you have the most robust data protection capabilities in place, without an isolated off-network storage vault, you are still vulnerable to unauthorized access attempts, ransomware attacks, and data breaches.
With Dell, you can create secure copies of data and replicate them to an isolated unstructured storage vault with intelligent monitoring features capable of automatically alerting your IT team to any suspicious behavior. This significantly reduces the attack surface and provides an additional protective barrier against cyber threats. Watch the video.
Proactively isolate your most critical data to ensure it’s protected at all times.
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Detect: Analyze suspicious behavior to prevent an attack
Principles of Dell Unstructured Data Solutions' data protection strategy:
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Robust monitoring capabilities are required to identify suspicious activities.
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Automated alerts must be in place.
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Threat intelligence must be shared.
Robust monitoring capabilities are required to identify suspicious activities.
Even the strongest security perimeters can be penetrated, allowing cybercriminals to move laterally across your network and target your most sensitive data sources. Without the ability to detect unusual user behavior or access patterns in real-time, your organization is vulnerable.
Dell Unstructured Data Solutions leverage AI and machine learning to analyze file system behavior, detect suspicious activities faster, and automatically alert you to potential issues.
Dell’s cyber monitoring capabilities help you identify threats faster.
Automated alerts must be in place.
Cyberattacks are constantly evolving. It is important to analyze all aspects of user activities and identify unusual behavior to proactively protect data.
Beyond identifying suspicious user activity, Dell’s Cyber Protection Solution enables you to automatically flag irregular device and access patterns that could be a precursor of an attack. Example patterns that can be detected include: anomalies in data access, anomalies in user behavior, and suspicious activities like mass deletion or mass encryption.
Identify suspicious activity details including users, device and data access patterns before an attack occurs.
Threat intelligence must be shared.
It’s not enough to identify suspicious activities at the individual storage, networking, or application layer. Threat intelligence gathered at one layer must be shared with the others and across Extended Detection and Response (XDR) tools to deliver comprehensive cybersecurity monitoring.
Using the Zero Trust API, cybersecurity intelligence can be shared bi-directionally to and from Dell unstructured storage systems. This provides a holistic view of your cybersecurity environment and helps you marshal a coordinated response to any threat that is detected.
Share bi-directional threat intelligence TO and FROM the data layer.
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Respond: Neutralize threats such as data theft and recover rapidly if an attack occurs.
What to consider when designing your recovery plan:
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Safeguards to automatically block data theft and suspicious activities in real time are required.
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A vault helps restore operations quicky if a breach occurs.
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It’s not a matter of “if” but “when” you are breached. Are you prepared?
Safeguards to automatically block data theft and suspicious activities in real time are required.
Time is often the big difference between a minimal and significant business impact in the event of a breach. IT departments need to automate threat detection to successfully defend against attacks and data theft attempts. Relying on manual intervention may result in considerable incremental damage.
Dell's Unstructured Data Cybersecurity Solution enables you to identify suspicious activity, automatically block compromised accounts, disrupt data manipulation and prevent data theft.
Immutable backups mitigate encryption risks but don’t protect against data theft. Prevent data loss and unauthorized encryption attempts in real-time before attackers gain a foothold.
A vault helps restore operations quicky if a breach occurs.
Organizations that don’t establish an isolated data vault may find both production and backup systems have been compromised in the event of a cyber-attack. For those with legacy vault solutions, an acceptable recovery-time-objective (RTO) may be difficult to meet.
By designing a cyber recovery vault with Dell PowerScale and ECS appliances, you can have confidence in the restoration of your data with unmatched performance—a few hours for a petabyte of data versus days to weeks.
Recover your production data rapidly to avoid business disruption.
It’s not a matter of “if” but “when” you are breached. Are you prepared?
A security breach can have a devastating impact on an organization—from financial losses to reputational damage and legal consequences. It is imperative that you are confident in your recovery plan and have a capable team in place to execute it if an attack occurs.
Achieve peace of mind by increasing your cyber resilience with Dell Professional Services for Cyber Recovery. By bringing together the right people, processes and technology, Dell can help you form the last line of defense for your business. If a breach does occur, we can help you recover rapidly with our Incident Recovery Retainer Services.
Leverage Dell cybersecurity experts for greater confidence in your recovery.
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A complete solution stack: Multi-layered cyber protection for unstructured data
The Dell solution stack: Multi-layered protection for unstructured data
Using the diagram, click through the individual layers of the Dell solution stack to learn how Dell can help protect your important data.
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Intrinsically secure storage
PowerScale
ECS
PowerScale is the world’s most flexible1 and secure scale-out NAS solution2, designed for reliability at any scale. PowerScale all-flash nodes are powered by Intel Xeon processors. Built-in cybersecurity features include:
- WORM SmartLock compliance
- Encryption at-rest and in-transit
- Role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Data segregation and access zones
- Immutable and lockable snapshots
- Automated and customizable alerts
- Self-encrypting drives
- Based on Dell analysis of publicly available information sources measured across seven attributes, August 2021.
- Based on Dell analysis comparing cyber-security software capabilities offered for Dell PowerScale vs. competitive products, September 2022.
Dell ECS is the world’s most cyber-secure object storage1 with unmatched scalability, performance, and resilience, powered by Intel Xeon processors. Built-in cybersecurity features include:
- WORM immutability and S3 Object Lock
- Policy-based automated deletion
- Unrecoverable data deletion/secure wipe
- Encryption at-rest and in-transit
- Role-based access controls and S3 IAM
- Automated and customizable alerts
- S3 versioning restore (data and app recovery)
- Mass delete prevention
- Based on Dell analysis of publicly available information sources measured across seven attributes, August 2021.
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Advanced Cybersecurity Capabilities
Advanced threat detection
Enhanced auditing
Air-gapped data vaulting
Shared threat intelligence
Leverage AI and machine learning to analyze file system behavior and detect suspicious activity earlier
Set up automated responses including terminating replication to a cyber vault and denying user access
Configure event triggers based on patterns of data access that are indicative of a cyber attack
Create a list of file extensions that are not allowed to be created, modified or deleted on the system using banned files
Enhances the PowerScale OneFS audit engine:
Data loss prevention
Measures percentage of files accessed in a given path
Multiprotocol support
SMB, NFS, S3 and HDFS
Real-time wiretap
Tracks user or application access and activities
Historical playback
Granular audits of past user and data access
Custom alerts
Triggers based on any combination of source IP, user, path, file, extension and conditional logic
Safeguard sensitive data and golden copies using an immutable backup from an isolated cyber vault
The site and vault are continuously monitored and pass threat intelligence to other security agents in the environment
The operational air-gap is only opened once production data is scanned for threats
Restore operations with unmatched RTO—a few hours for a petabyte of data versus days to weeks
Bidirectional threat intelligence TO and FROM the data layer:
Alert XDR, EDR and SIEM systems with any suspicious activity at the data layer (Outbound)
Secure backups with immutable snapshots of the backup data (Integration)
Respond to suspicious activity detected at network and application layers (Inbound)
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Trusted expertise
Industry Leadership
2,000+
Healthcare customers
8/10
Top broadcasters
1,900+
Financial firms
8/10
Top biotechs
Horizontal Expertise
100+
Deep learning customers
43%
Safety & security market share
400+
Analytics customers
4,500+
Backup & archive customers
800+ years
of consolidated vertical experience on the Dell UDS team
250+ Integrations & Certifications
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Dell Technologies Services
Cybersecurity Advisory Services
Professional Services for Cyber Recovery
Incident Recovery Retainer Services
Enhance your vulnerability management program, increase ransomware defense and map your Zero Trust Initiatives.
Proactively manage vulnerabilities, assess data and assets and understand business risks
Enable data protection across the stack, protect business critical data and increase automation
Proactively monitor and respond to threats, business aligned cyber recovery and programmatically build maturity
Gain peace of mind with an orchestrated resilience approach.
Advisory and Design Services: Proven methodologies, collaborative approaches, and industry best practices to help accelerate your security initiatives
Deploy and Implement Services: Operationalize a cybersecurity solution and tailor it to your specific and unique business needs.
Test and Recovery Services: Runbook development, regular testing, and validation to build program maturity and respond to an attack with precision and agility
Operate and Manage Services: Drive consistency in operations and reduce risk through additional cybersecurity capabilities
When a destructive cyberattack or incident occurs, Dell helps you recover fast.
Fast response from trusted cybersecurity experts: Retainer model enables streamlined response. Dell experts jump in to diagnose situation and get you back to business with as little interruption as possible.
97% success rate in helping customers recover after experiencing a cyber event1: Our dedicated team of industry-certified experts brings their experience, skills and tools to bear to resolve the incident.
Gain understanding of how to solidify your recovery strategy: We evaluate your existing incident recovery plans and recommendations to help optimize your recovery posture2.
- Based on Dell analysis of service requests from June 2019 to July 2021 in North America.
- Evaluation of recovery capabilities and readiness included only in Incident Recovery Retainer Service.
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