The battle of cybersecurity is won or lost based on your ability to collect, analyze and respond to threat intelligence.

Today’s attackers are innovative. Knowing that most security solutions focus above the OS only, adversaries are looking at softer attack surfaces: the below-the-OS layers and the supply chain. To stay ahead of these bad actors and to keep their businesses protected, today’s leaders must consider built-in, hardware-based security technologies deep in the silicon as crucial when deploying commercial devices to their employees.

• Keeping business data secure is a challenging task, complicated by the proliferation of endpoints operating outside of the organizational network and the constant evolution of threat vectors.
• AI has arrived on device, expanding innovation, as well as the attack surface. With hundreds of models and AI features now in the mix, sensitive data is now at risk of exposure to applications like GenAI.
• Dell and Intel are committed to keeping commercial customer networks secure with multiple layers of defense.
• Dell combines built-in hardware and firmware security with silicon-based protections from Intel to defend the deepest levels of a device against foundational attacks.
• We bolster these “below-the-OS” defenses with intelligent software from our partner ecosystem for advanced threat protection.
• In addition to this approach, Dell and Intel have invested in practices and policies to continually help secure platforms once they are out in the market and subject to attack from malicious actors.

Security starts way earlier than you may think. It seems that every few months, another prominent global brand experiences a major security breach and the negative public exposure causes major damage to their reputation. It’s enough to keep business owners and security professionals worried that they are also exposed, be it through an overlooked vulnerability baked into their devices or an unknown, exploitable weakness in their software. You might be able to trust your IT team to secure your networks and implement data safe practices, but how can you trust all the endpoints and applications you rely on to do business when you had no oversight over their manufacturing or
development?
Software-only security is not enough. A common yet flawed approach to address device integrity is attempting to create a false sense of security through software-only solutions without addressing underlying hardware-based vulnerabilities. It is important for business leaders to understand the limitations of this strategy: by relying only on software to protect their businesses, they leave the hardware that the software is running on potentially vulnerable to attacks. In essence, if hardware isn’t secure, security applications and technologies running on it cannot be secure either.
Other providers attempt to create a “walled garden” to protect devices, where limitations are built into the apps and services that restrict user flexibility. While this may make sense in a consumer context, it comes at the cost of the freedom to fully leverage devices, a challenge that’s only exacerbated in a commercial context. This approach may also lead attackers to increasingly target and break down these systems to expose vulnerabilities in common configurations