Dell Technologies leading the Digital Frontline with its commitment to Data Protection and Cybersecurity

Dell Technologies epitomizes a steadfast commitment to safeguarding organizational data integrity and empowering businesses to navigate the complexities of the digital era. With a comprehensive suite of cybersecurity solutions and a forward-looking approach to data protection, Dell Technologies emerges as a trusted partner for enterprises seeking to fortify their defenses against escalating cyber threats. In a recent interview, Ripu Bajwa, Director and General Manager, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies India, sheds light on the evolving landscape of data protection and cybersecurity.
 

Driving Factors behind Data Protection Measures
In response to the escalating challenges faced by organizations in safeguarding their data, Ripu Bajwa highlights several driving factors:
Unchecked Digitization: The exponential growth of new-age technologies grants threat actors unprecedented access to sectors like banking. This, coupled with evolving phishing mechanisms, poses significant threats, necessitating enhanced data protection measures.
Limited Institutional Sharing of Threat Intelligence: While collecting data from diverse sources is feasible, deploying threat intelligence to enhance detection and response mechanisms remains challenging. The lack of agility in security teams hampers the prioritization and execution of response measures.

Limited Knowledge of Security Protocols: Employees serve as the first line of defense, yet the absence of adequate detection infrastructure prolongs response times to threats. Executives must embrace new cybersecurity norms to meet business requirements, regardless of their organization's maturity levels.

Arduous Recovery Processes: Recovery from cyberattacks is time-consuming and allows attackers leeway to launch subsequent campaigns. Streamlining recovery processes is essential to minimize downtime and mitigate further risks.

Safeguarding Organizational Data Integrity

Ripu Bajwa emphasizes the critical need for Indian enterprises to safeguard their data against cyber threats. He comments,“According to Dell Technologies 2024 Global Data Protection Index report, approximately 34% of Indian organizations have incurred losses of around $1 million due to cyberattacks or other related incidents in the past year. Hence, it becomes imperative for Indian enterprises to safeguard their data against cyber threats.
Dell Technologies' integrated security solutions address these challenges by focusing on data security, enhancing cyber resilience, and streamlining security complexities. By securing data and systems infrastructure, ensuring accessible backups, testing recoveries, and enabling safe data sharing and access, Dell Technologies empowers businesses to effectively protect their valuable data assets.”

Empowering Businesses with Generative AI
Regarding the role of Dell Cybersecurity solutions in advancing Generative AI initiatives, Ripu Bajwa emphasizes, “The opportunities that Generative AI provides are so pervasive that determining the best focus and approach for a business can be challenging. But as with any emerging technology, tangible business value is gained only by leveraging Generative AI the right way for the unique demands of the business. Security cannot be an afterthought for Indian enterprises. According to the Dell Technologies 2024 Global Data Protection Index report, 57% of the organizations in India believe that Generative AI will require large datasets to run, that will keep growing over time and will need to be protected and secure.

Zero Trust is the way that we will end up securing AI, and ultimately quantum will be the thing that powers it over the long term for the performance and efficiency needed to scale it into a global system. Zero Trust is a cybersecurity model that shifts how organizations approach security from reliance solely on perimeter defenses to a proactive strategy that allows only known good activity across ecosystems and data pipelines. Dell Technologies aims to serve as a catalyst for customers to achieve Zero Trust outcomes by making the design and integration of this architecture easier. To minimize attack surfaces and better protect organizations, we offer a new vulnerability management service with Dell experts that regularly scan customer environments for vulnerabilities, provide a full picture of exposures and help prioritize patching efforts

The Dell Technologies PowerProtect Cyber Recovery helps promote cyber resilience by ensuring that a clean copy of data free from corruption can be recovered after a cyber or ransomware attack. Ity enables cyber resilience by protecting and isolating critical data from ransomware and other cyber threats. PowerProtect Cyber Recovery also provides a secure digital vault that is logically and physically isolated from the production and backup networks with an operational air gap. Additionally, Dell’s services like PowerProtect Data Manager software addresses the increasing need for cyber resiliency and supports Zero Trust principles with new built-in operational security capabilities, such as multi factor authentication, dual authorization, and role-based access controls.”

Implementing Zero Trust Security Principles

Ripu Bajwa elucidates how the implementation of Zero Trust security principles enhances organizations' overall cybersecurity posture. He points out, “Zero Trust enables organizations to better align their cybersecurity strategy across the data center, clouds and at the edge. In an ever-changing technology landscape, it will help us to not only protect data but also lower breach risk significantly. A Zero Trust approach organically reduces threat detection time. From an enterprise point-of-view, when businesses are increasingly moving to a cloud-based model, Zero Trust gives back control of the data to the organization when rolled out strategically. With Triple ‘A’ pillars of Zero Trust - authorization, authentication and accounting, future-ready data protection is simple to achieve.”
 

To conclude
In his concluding words Ripu Bajwa emphasizes Dell Technologies' commitment to empowering organizations with comprehensive data protection measures, ensuring resilience in the face of evolving cyber threats. He says, “By partnering with Dell Technologies, an organization can confidently advance its Generative AI efforts, knowing they can rely on Dell, every step of the way.”