Dell Technologies has expanded its cybersecurity and resilience portfolio across AI environments, identity systems and infrastructure, adding new services and software features for areas increasingly targeted by attackers.
The updates cover AI deployment and recovery, identity protection and restoration, and storage and encryption tools designed to improve recovery after cyber incidents. Some products and services are available now, while others are scheduled for release later.
AI focus
Among the additions is Security Hardening for Dell AI Factory, a service intended to help organisations deploy AI infrastructure with controls aligned to internal IT and security standards. Dell specialists assess physical, virtual and application layers, identify configuration risks affecting AI workloads and provide prioritised recommendations.
Dell also introduced Resilience Operations for AI, designed to identify the AI functions most critical to a business and set recovery policies and procedures around them. The service includes a prioritised plan covering which AI applications to protect and how to restore them if disruption occurs.
PowerProtect AI Assistant has also been expanded with a conversational interface for cyber resilience management across assets, tasks, restores and reporting. The tool provides daily risk briefs and includes a workflow requiring human approval before actions are taken.
Identity recovery
Dell is also extending PowerProtect into identity recovery, an area that has become more prominent as identity systems increasingly sit at the centre of access to applications, data and infrastructure.
The new identity resilience features are designed to restore clean copies of platforms including Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID and Okta. This would allow organisations to return identity platforms and access controls to a trusted state rather than rebuild them manually after an incident.
Alongside that, Dell Managed Detection and Response for Identity is now available as a 24/7 monitoring and response service focused on threats such as suspicious authentication activity, compromised accounts and misuse of privileges. When defined attack patterns are detected, automated response actions can be triggered to contain the threat.
Storage and encryption
On infrastructure, Dell is increasing integration between PowerProtect and PowerScale. The enhanced link automates the initiation, scheduling and management of retention lock local snapshots for rapid recovery.
PowerScale SmartSync support will also allow organisations to synchronise snapshots to Dell ObjectScale, creating an additional recovery copy and a longer-term retention option. That integration is due to become available in December 2026.
Dell is also adding quantum-safe data-in-flight encryption to the latest version of PowerStore software over Fibre Channel connectivity. When used with supported Dell PowerEdge servers and configurations, the feature is intended to help protect data from so-called harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks. The software is due in November 2026.
A separate Dell Post-Quantum Readiness Assessment is intended to identify cryptographic exposure across IT infrastructure and devices, rank risks by criticality and prioritise migration actions. That service is also scheduled for availability in November 2026.
The announcement reflects growing concern among technology suppliers and corporate IT teams about the resilience of AI systems, identity platforms and encrypted data as cyberattacks broaden beyond traditional data theft and ransomware.
Simon Jelley, Vice President, Cyber Resilience, Dell Technologies, said: "Organisations are managing more complexity, more exposure and faster-moving threats than they were even just a few months ago. They are trying to protect AI environments, identity systems and infrastructure with tools and strategies designed for yesterday's threats. Dell has the portfolio, the services and the operational expertise to help organisations strengthen cyber resilience and close the gaps between where threats are headed and where most strategies stand today."
Dell also cited customer and analyst views on the operational risks tied to outages and compromised access systems.
Xiong Xiong, Vice President of IT, Ascend Performance Materials, said: "For manufacturers, resilience is critical to maintaining operations and serving customers without interruption. Working with Dell Technologies has helped strengthen our backup and recovery capabilities, giving us greater confidence in our ability to protect critical data and support business continuity across our global operations."
Dave Vellante, Co-Founder and Chief Analyst, theCUBE Research, said: "Agentic AI is changing both the speed and scope of cyber risk. AI-enabled attacks and enterprise agents can operate at machine speed, amplifying the impact of compromised identities, excessive permissions or errors. Encrypted data stolen today could also be decrypted by future quantum computers. We believe Dell's focus on connecting protection, detection and recovery across AI environments, identity and infrastructure addresses an important enterprise need - containing disruption, sustaining critical operations and restoring systems and data to a verified, trusted state."