Dell expands cyber recovery tools to protect identity
SiliconANGLE Sloane Kali Faye
Dell is adding identity recovery to its cyber tools. Because backups don’t help if attackers still own the login layer.
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Dell is widening its cyber recovery playbook beyond data and into identity. The company says restoring files after an attack is not enough if the systems that control access are still compromised. That matters more now, Dell argues, because AI is tying data, identity, infrastructure and apps into one messy chain of dependencies.
Rob Emsley, Dell’s director of cyber resilience product marketing, said backup and recovery by themselves no longer get a business back on its feet. If the identity framework is broken, the data may still exist, but nobody can reach it. That is the gap Dell is trying to close with a new focus on identity resilience.
The company is adding identity resilience to its PowerProtect portfolio for Active Directory, Entra ID and Okta. It is also extending its managed detection and response service with identity threat detection and response, so it can catch credential misuse in real time and automatically respond. Adam Miller pointed to the “impossible traveler” scenario, where a user appears to log in from places no human could realistically move between, or from an IP address they’ve never used before.
Dell is making the same point on the AI side. PowerProtect is being offered as an option inside Dell AI Factory, while snapshot orchestration is being extended to PowerScale storage with replication to ObjectScale. The company says those moves build on PowerProtect One and Dell Cyber Detect, which it introduced in May.
Miller said Dell is drawing lessons from about 6,500 AI Factory customers, including which projects are moving and which are stalling. The big takeaway, he said, is blunt: security and resilience need to be built in from the start, not bolted on after the fact. Dell’s services team is testing that idea with tabletop exercises and end-to-end ransomware simulations. In one customer case, reworking the recovery approach improved backup-to-recovery efficiency 17 times.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Dell is right to drag identity into recovery; leaving it out was the sort of omission that only looks harmless until the outage starts. The industry loves to talk about resilience like it’s a backup appliance problem, but access control is the real gatekeeper. Fancy AI systems won’t save anyone if the keys are lying on the floor.
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