From phishing attacks to ransomware, organizations face ever-evolving threats that require adaptive cybersecurity solutions to defend against increasingly sophisticated adversaries, such as organized crime and nation-states. These challenges demand adaptive solutions that span cloud, on-premises and edge environments.
Dell Technologies Inc. and its partners are working to provide businesses with the tools they need to stay resilient across diverse environments, offering flexible and integrated security services.
“We are definitely executing on our strategy,” said Arun Krishnamoorthy (pictured), senior director of cybersecurity product management at Dell Technologies. “There are two key pillars to our program. One way we want to make sure that customers have a consistent cyber resiliency experience regardless of whether they have workloads in the data center, edge or cloud. And the second position is obviously we wanted to really grow ourselves as a market leader.”
Krishnamoorthy spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante as part of a CUBE Conversation at the Dell “Partnerships for Smarter Security” event during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Dell integrates artificial intelligence into its cybersecurity services to enhance organizations’ detection and response capabilities across varied environments. (* Disclosure below.)
Integrating detection and response with cybersecurity solutions
One key challenge for modern enterprises is managing detection and response efforts across a fragmented technology landscape, according to Krishnamoorthy. Companies often find they’re using multiple security vendors, which leads to a complex ecosystem that can be difficult to manage. The industry is now moving toward a model that blends best-of-breed cybersecurity solutions with comprehensive, integrated suites of tools to streamline security operations.
“What Dell can do is the ecosystem that we have put together,” Krishnamoorthy said. “We have about 10-ish vendors in our tool bag. And with those vendors, we can give customers not only the best of breed but also [the] best of suite — kind of a nice middle ground on achieving both objectives.”
Detection and response efforts must span across multiple layers of infrastructure, from edge computing to data centers and cloud environments, according to Krishnamoorthy. This effort requires a unified approach that ensures complete visibility into all assets, enabling quicker identification and reaction to threats. Organizations increasingly prioritize solutions that allow them to maintain vigilance over their digital environments, ensuring the rapid detection of anomalies and swift incident response.
“When you look at the whole lifecycle of cybersecurity — the preventative part, policies [and] controls — then you get into detection response, which is continuously having 100% visibility on all assets, Krishnamoorthy said. “And then you have incident response in terms of recovery, and then ultimately, your data protection recovery. Dell has technologies and services across that entire portfolio, but more importantly, detection response is super critical.”
The power of collaboration
The concept of cybersecurity as a team sport is gaining traction in the industry as organizations recognize that no single vendor can solve the entire problem of defending against cyberattacks, according to Krishnamoorthy. Collaboration between technology providers and service partners is essential to building a resilient defense system that spans the whole cybersecurity lifecycle.
“Not one vendor can solve this problem,” Krishnamoorthy said. “If we had solved this problem, we would not be hearing about cyberattacks, but that’s not the case; there’s great technology out there. Security is a team sport … and [managed security service providers] like Dell can bring that story together for them.”
This philosophy of partnership and teamwork is reflected in Dell’s integration with other leading vendors, allowing the company to offer more than just technological services, according to Krishnamoorthy. Dell’s cybersecurity services include everything from early-stage detection and monitoring to incident response and data recovery to helping provide comprehensive protection.
Adapting AI for cybersecurity
AI has had a profound impact on how cybersecurity solutions manage threats, according to Krishnamoorthy. AI offers significant potential not only in identifying and mitigating threats, but also in predicting attacks before they occur. As adversaries become more sophisticated, AI is poised to play an increasingly central role in threat detection and response.
“We kind of put AI in three buckets,” Krishnamoorthy said. “The first one is ‘How do we protect the use of AI?’ … The second one is ‘How do we protect against AI?’ [and] the third area is ‘How do we protect with AI?’”
Dell’s approach involves integrating AI into its cybersecurity solutions and collaborating with partners to offer innovative tools that stay ahead of emerging threats. Organizations can automate parts of the detection process using AI-driven analytical tools, enabling faster, more efficient responses to new and evolving cyberattacks.
“There’s a lot going on in the AI space,” Krishnamoorthy said. “We are still learning, but we are learning together, and we are being proactive.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the Dell “Partnerships for Smarter Security” event:
(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell’s “Partnerships for Smarter Security” event. Neither Dell Technologies Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)