Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Dell's strategy for combating evolving threats

The need for vigilante cybersecurity services is one aspect of tech that hasn’t gone away, with cyberattacks threatening everyone from individuals to large corporations.

Consistent threats, such as ransomware, are not going away anytime soon, calling for active measures to protect all users against a growing threat landscape. Dell Technologies Inc. builds security directly into its products while also offering cyber and IT security solutions for its clients across all clouds, preparing clients for any catastrophic attack that might occur, according to Elizabeth Green (pictured), EMEA advisory and cyber lead at Dell.

“We think through this scenario so we’re not just doing it on the fly in the event of a catastrophic attack. We know exactly what we need to do,” Green said. “It’s not just Dell here — we’re working with the leading advisory consulting firms that will do the business strategy, the op model. We’re working with the public cloud providers; we’re working with the network providers as well.”

Green spoke with theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante at the Cyber Resiliency Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Dell prepares clients for attacks, the difference between cybersecurity and cyber resiliency, and the role of generative artificial intelligence in both cybersecurity threats and deterrence. (* Disclosure below.)

Safety through resiliency

AI plays a significant role in cybersecurity, both in helping to keep threats at bay and, unfortunately, at creating and automating attacks, as bad faith actors continue adopting the technology into their tactics.

“Ransomware gangs are being able to use AI to be smarter, better automate some of their capabilities or even just write an email more effectively,” Green said. “There might’ve been typos in the past, but with AI, you might be able to get a real linguistic advantage if you’re writing as a state actor from a different country in English.”

Data protection is more important than it’s ever been, especially with large language models and generative AI requiring large caches of data to function.

“Clients need to consider how they’re protecting data,” Green said. “Just because it’s in the cloud doesn’t mean the cloud is protecting it, and there are clear guidelines around that. I think a lot of our clients think, ‘Someone else is managing it, so they must be protecting it.’”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Cyber Resiliency Summit:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the “Cyber Resiliency Summit.” Neither Dell Technologies Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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