Dell Technologies has introduced a range of new security features aimed at enhancing cyber resilience and tackling the emerging threats posed by next-generation technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
These advances focus on solidifying device security, boosting cyber resilience in the event of an incident, and improving threat detection in AI data platforms.
Addressing Cyber Resilience Needs
The rapid growth of AI is generating valuable data while offering intruders new avenues to exploit. Quantum computing is expected to weaken current encryption methods, necessitating security upgrades.
Organizations are increasingly seeking devices equipped to withstand future cyber threats, minimize the impact of such incidents, and offer robust detection capabilities. Dell is adopting a multi-layered defense strategy, spanning from PCs to data centers, to counter these evolving security challenges.
Strengthening Firmware Security
The advent of quantum computing is posing a risk to existing security frameworks
The advent of quantum computing is posing a risk to existing security frameworks, specifically those safeguarding today’s devices. In response, Dell is implementing quantum-ready security features in its commercial PCs to counteract sophisticated cyber threats that traditional security measures may miss. The enhancements secure the PC’s embedded controller, using advanced signature verification to resist quantum-enabled attacks, thus ensuring firmware integrity and reducing supply chain vulnerabilities.
Advancements in Cyber Resilience
Dell's latest BIOS Verification enhancements, in line with post-quantum standards, are designed to detect tampering by referencing a trusted version stored securely within Dell's cloud. Alert systems promptly notify teams for potential breaches. According to Dell's Cyber Resilience Insights, only a minority of global organizations can contain and recover from cyberattacks with minimal impact. Dell aims to strengthen its PowerProtect portfolio, enhancing threat detection and recovery speeds post-incident.
Improving Recovery and Threat Detection
This aids in identifying ransomware sooner and simplifies distributed system management
Enhancements to the PowerProtect Data Manager, coupled with AI advancements, accelerate recovery issues and improve anomaly detection. This aids in identifying ransomware sooner and simplifies distributed system management. Meanwhile, the updated Data Domain Operating System incorporates new security protocols like TLS 1.3 to protect data during transfer, in line with NIST encryption standards.
Dell is broadening its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service to safeguard environments where AI data and unstructured workloads exist. This extended service, now including Dell PowerScale, boosts threat visibility in AI data storage, supported by Dell’s cybersecurity experts for faster threat detection and response.
New Endpoint Security Options
Additionally, Dell introduces a specialized Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) offering focused solely on endpoint threats using advanced detection methods and next-gen antivirus capabilities. When deployed with Dell PCs, this service leverages BIOS verification insights to inform the MDR team of potential security breaches.
As noted by John Roese, Dell's global CTO and chief AI officer, “Quantum computing will break the encryption and digital signatures protecting data today, while agentic AI raises the stakes by increasing the value of data and autonomously shares it across teams and organizations.”
Global Availability Updates
Quantum-ready security features are expected to be available on new Dell commercial PCs in 2026. Enhancements to the Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and the expansion of Dell's MDR service to PowerScale are already available. The new PowerProtect Data Domain DD3410 appliance is slated for release on April 15, 2026, with the EDR-only option set to launch on April 16, 2026.
Dell Technologies introduces new security by design and cyber resilience capabilities to help organizations secure, detect and recover from next-generation threats.
The enhancements address emerging risks from quantum computing and AI by hardening device foundations, strengthening cyber resilience when incidents occur and extending threat detection into AI data platforms.
Cyber resilience capabilities
AI is creating more valuable data and giving attackers new ways to move faster. Quantum computing will accelerate that shift by weakening the encryption technology that organizations use today to protect data and verify software integrity.
These converging threats are driving demand for devices built to resist future attacks, cyber resilience to minimize incident impact and stronger detection across environments where AI data lives. Dell is addressing these security challenges through a layered defense approach across the technology stack, from the PC to the data center.
Deepest firmware layers
Quantum computing threatens the security foundations that protect devices today, driving a need for security by design at the deepest firmware layers. Dell is introducing quantum-ready security features to its commercial PCs to protect against attacks that can evade traditional security tools and remain hidden even after a restart or system reinstall.
The upgraded security features harden the PC’s embedded controller (EC), a core hardware security component, to verify firmware updates using signatures designed to resist future quantum-enabled attacks. This helps prevent the controller from accepting malicious or tampered firmware and reduces supply chain risk by validating updates with stronger encryption and digital signatures.
Post-quantum standards
Dell's enhanced BIOS Verification capability, aligned to post-quantum standards, detects tampering by checking the BIOS against a trusted reference stored securely in Dell's cloud. If something does not match, this Dell-unique verification[ii] flags the device and triggers an alert so teams can investigate and respond.
Hardened devices are essential for helping reduce successful attacks, and so is cyber resilience to minimize impact when incidents occur. According to Dell’s Cyber Resilience Insights research, only 40% of global organizations successfully contained and recovered from a cyberattack or incident drill with minimal impact. Dell is strengthening its PowerProtect cyber resilience portfolio to help organizations detect threats like ransomware sooner and recover faster from incidents.
Most secure foundation
Enhancements to PowerProtect Data Manager help organizations resolve recovery issues faster with an AI-powered assistant that provides contextual guidance during time-sensitive tasks, spot ransomware risk earlier with enhanced anomaly detection that scans Dell PowerStore snapshots and simplify management at scale with a unified dashboard across distributed systems.
PowerProtect Data Domain, the world’s most secure foundation for cyber resilience[iii], extends protection to smaller sites and strengthens data security in transit. The PowerProtect Data Domain DD3410 appliance delivers up to 2x faster backups and 46% faster data restores,[iv] empowering organizations to resume operations quickly after an incident. The updated Data Domain Operating System, now including support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3, helps protect data while it moves between systems and aligns with NIST requirements for encrypted connections.
Streamlining security operations
Fast recovery requires early threat detection. AI workloads concentrate valuable data in platforms that traditional endpoint security can miss, creating visibility gaps that attackers exploit. Dell is extending its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service into environments where unstructured data and AI workloads live.
Building upon the MDR expansion to Dell PowerProtect, Dell MDR now extends to Dell PowerScale, providing organizations with enhanced visibility into threats targeting their AI data storage platforms. Supported by Dell’s expert cybersecurity analysts, this service enables earlier detection of suspicious activity and automates response actions, streamlining security operations and safeguarding critical data.
Next-generation antivirus capabilities
Additionally, Dell is introducing a new Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)-only option. This service monitors, investigates and responds to endpoint threats using advanced threat detection and next-generation antivirus capabilities. When used with Dell PCs, the service offers unique visibility into BIOS verification results. If a PC’s BIOS drifts from its trusted baseline due to a potential compromise, an alert is sent to Dell’s MDR team to investigate.
John Roese, global CTO and chief AI officer, Dell Technologies: “Quantum computing will break the encryption and digital signatures protecting data today, while agentic AI raises the stakes by increasing the value of data and autonomously shares it across teams and organizations. We've been preparing for both shifts for almost a decade through our investments in post-quantum cryptography and our approach to cyber resilience and security by design. We are continuing to bring these protections across our portfolio to help organizations navigate emerging technologies and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threats.”
Compression optimize bandwidth
Javier González Belinchón, director, Corporate Infrastructure & Operations, Palladium Hotel Group: “In luxury hospitality, even a brief IT disruption during peak operations can have a major impact. We work with heavy workloads, and PowerProtect Data Manager’s Transparent Snapshots make a real difference. We get no business disruption, lower risk of data loss and the VM backup times are cut in half. Coupled with our PowerProtect Data Domain appliance, deduplication and compression optimize bandwidth, remote backups are seamless and storage requirements are drastically reduced.”
Fernando Montenegro, vice president & practice lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience, Futurum: “As AI adoption expands, security teams need to protect more high-value data in areas where traditional controls may not provide adequate visibility into how threats move across AI workloads and data platforms. Dell’s approach reflects this broader cyber resilience strategy aimed at reducing risk, deepening security visibility and helping organizations recover more effectively when incidents occur.”
Availability:
- Quantum-ready security features will be available on new Dell commercial PCs launching in 2026.
- Dell PowerProtect Data Manager enhancements are now available.
- Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Operating System updates are now available.
- Dell PowerProtect Data Domain DD3410 appliance will be available April 15, 2026.
- Dell Managed Detection and Response (MDR) expansion to Dell PowerScale is now available.
- Dell Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)-only option is available April 16, 2026.
