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Advancing Cyber Resilience with Dell and Redapt

Written by Redapt Marketing | Nov 17, 2025 4:49:51 PM

Navigating today’s digital threat landscape requires not only vigilance, but a comprehensive strategy rooted in deep expertise and resilient infrastructure. As technology ecosystems grow increasingly complex, threat actors evolve in parallel—leveraging more sophisticated tactics, targeting vulnerabilities at every layer, and moving quickly to exploit any gap in your defenses. Under such circumstances, traditional, reactive security is not enough. Instead, organizations must embrace a proactive, integrated approach that empowers them to anticipate, withstand, and recover from cyber threats. At the intersection of this need stands Dell Technologies and Redapt, two trusted partners equipped to help enterprises build enduring cyber resilience.

Why Cyber Resilience Matters Now More Than Ever 

Recent years have seen an exponential increase in cyberattacks, with ransomware, supply chain breaches, and data exfiltration incidents dominating headlines. The repercussions are far-reaching, including operational downtime, financial losses, loss of customer trust, and even regulatory penalties. Cyber resilience—defined as an organization’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber threats—is now a non-negotiable priority for business and IT leaders. 

Achieving real resilience requires more than just deploying the latest security tools. It demands an ecosystem approach: combining the right technology stack, smart processes, and expert guidance. That’s why Dell Technologies and Redapt have aligned their strengths to deliver an end-to-end security framework that spans every tier of your organization, from silicon to supply chain to SaaS applications. 

This blog explores how these two innovators empower you to: 

  • Reduce the attack surface by eliminating vulnerabilities and strengthening your environment
  • Detect and respond to evolving threats efficiently and effectively
  • Recover rapidly and maintain continuity, no matter the challenge
  • Secure emerging technology, like Generative AI and Large Language Models, against new classes of risk 

By prioritizing measurable outcomes and continuous improvement, Dell and Redapt provide you a playbook for building a future-ready, resilient enterprise. 

Reducing the Attack Surface: The First Line of Defense 

A secure organization starts by minimizing the opportunities for threat actors to get in. The “attack surface” includes every endpoint, connection, application, device, and user that could potentially serve as a point of entry. In the past, organizations struggled to keep pace with the sheer volume and diversity of endpoints—especially as workforces became distributed and remote access multiplied. A Zero Trust strategy, which assumes breaches are inevitable and verifies all access, is at the heart of meaningful risk reduction. 

Dell’s Secure From the Ground Up Approach 

At the foundation of Dell’s security philosophy is silicon-level trust. Security is not bolted on as an afterthought; it is embedded directly into the hardware and the supply chain. Every device and infrastructure element is verified at every stage, from component manufacturing to deployment. This mitigates supply chain risks such as firmware manipulation or counterfeit components, which have become more common in recent years. 

Practical Example: Imagine a global enterprise with hundreds of supply chain partners. With Dell’s secure supply chain, the company gains the confidence that every device—from servers to laptops—has not been tampered with before arriving at their location. Technologies such as Dell’s SafeBIOS assure that the BIOS (the first software to load when a device powers on) is legitimate and uncompromised. If an attacker attempts to alter firmware or implant a rootkit, SafeBIOS detects it before the operating system is loaded, preventing further damage. 

Endpoint and Access Security 

The endpoint is often the weakest link in the security chain, especially with the rise of remote work and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) cultures. Dell Trusted Workspace PCs are designed as the hardware standard for secure enterprise endpoints, protecting both below and above the operating system. 

Key Features for a Reduced Attack Surface: 
  • SafeBIOS: Detects firmware attacks at the hardware level
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Strengthens user verification, even if an attacker obtains credentials
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Restricts access so team members can only reach the data necessary for their roles, minimizing the risk if a user account is compromised
  • Hardware Root of Trust: Devices include chips and cryptographic verification to ensure only authorized software loads at boot 

Customer Perspective: A financial services firm, adopting Dell Trusted Workspace PCs and implementing strong MFA and RBAC, dramatically reduced successful phishing-related incidents. Employees could access only the applications and data their jobs required, and even if credentials were phished, unrecognized login attempts would require additional verification. 

Redapt’s Value as a Trusted Partner 

Adding robust tools is effective only when those tools are tailored to your environment, properly configured, and accompanied by supporting processes. This is where Redapt steps in as your integration expert and trusted advisor. Redapt’s methodical security assessments surface hidden vulnerabilities, while tailored architecture blueprints ensure that controls like MFA or RBAC are aligned with your operational, compliance, and regulatory needs. 

What Redapt Delivers: 
  • Security assessments and maturity modeling
  • Architecture design for secure endpoints and supply chain
  • Policy development and user education programs
  • Ongoing optimization to keep pace with new threats 

Redapt empowers enterprise teams not only to deploy the right technology but also to maintain it as their organization evolves. We work hand-in-hand with your stakeholders to foster both immediate improvements and sustainable, long-term security posture. 

Detect and Respond: Gaining Clarity in the Chaos 

Reducing your attack surface lowers risk—but in today’s climate, organizations must anticipate that some breaches will succeed. The difference between a contained incident and a major crisis comes down to your ability to see, understand, and neutralize malicious behavior in real time. 

Elevating Visibility, Enabling Action 

Modern cyberattacks often unfold over days or weeks, with attackers leveraging “dwell time” to move laterally and escalate privileges. In this context, continuous monitoring and intelligent detection are non-negotiable. Dell’s Trusted Infrastructure provides the backbone, integrating security at each layer—servers, storage systems, and networking—so threats are spotted early. 

  • Data Encryption (at rest and in transit): Ensures stolen data is useless to attackers
  • Secure Boot and Integrity Checking: Mitigate rootkits and persistence techniques
  • Automated Patching: Keeps infrastructure current and protected from newly disclosed vulnerabilities 

Continuous Monitoring in Practice: 
For example, a healthcare provider utilizing Dell’s monitoring tools receives real-time alerts of anomalous behavior: excessive file transfers or unusual login attempts outside normal business hours. These anomalies trigger immediate investigations, reducing the window for attackers to act. 

Advanced Endpoint and Network Detection 

As attackers exploit both endpoints and the broader network, advanced security must operate holistically. Solutions like EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) and XDR (Extended Detection and Response) go beyond basic antivirus, using machine learning to spot novel, subtle threats. 

What Advanced Detection Looks Like: 
  • EDR: Watches individual devices for signs of infection, such as unrecognized processes or privilege escalations
  • XDR: Aggregates and correlates data across endpoints, servers, and cloud environments to uncover coordinated attack patterns
  • Managed Detection and Response (MDR): External experts actively monitor, detect, and respond to threats on your behalf 24/7 
Redapt: Integration, Testing, and Continual Improvement 

Redapt’s approach centers on enabling enterprise IT and security teams to make the most of these capabilities. Our services include: 

  • Deployment and integration of Dell MDR, EDR/XDR, and monitoring platforms
  • Creation of playbooks and automated workflows for rapid incident response
  • Resilience testing—simulated attacks to validate your response, refine alerting thresholds, and train staff
  • Quarterly security reviews to adapt to the ever-changing threat landscape 

Example Use Case: A logistics company working with Redapt implemented a blended EDR/XDR solution. After a live simulation revealed a gap in lateral movement detection, Redapt refined network segmentation and worked with the client’s SOC (Security Operations Center) to enhance response plans, reducing dwell time from over 30 days to less than 2 days for simulated breaches. 

Recover with Confidence: Ensuring Business Continuity 

No defense is impenetrable. Organizations need backup and recovery strategies that are not only robust but also resilient to new forms of attack. Modern ransomware often targets backup systems themselves, so your approach must evolve with the threat. 

Dell PowerProtect: The Safety Net for Your Data 

Dell’s PowerProtect suite reimagines data protection for today’s cloud- and SaaS-first enterprise: 

  • Air-Gapped and Immutable Backups: Backups are stored separately from the main network and cannot be modified or deleted by ransomware
  • Automated Backup Verification: Ensures restore points are uncorrupted and viable
  • Point-in-Time Recovery: Rapidly restores operations from clean snapshots, dramatically reducing downtime 
SaaS Data Protection as Standard: 

With Dell PowerProtect Backup Services, organizations can protect data across critical SaaS environments: 

  • Microsoft 365: Pre-configured connectors back up Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and EntraID, with unified governance and reporting
  • Google Workspace & Salesforce: Native integrations enable automated backup, disaster recovery, and long-term retention for essential business data 
Unified Protection Across the Hybrid Cloud 

Modern enterprises routinely span on-premises data centers, private, and public cloud resources. PowerProtect provides cross-environment protection and centralized visibility: 

  • Single-pane-of-glass reporting across cloud and local workloads
  • Storage insights for proactive trend analysis
  • Long-term retention and legal hold capabilities for compliance-driven industries 

Real-World Recovery: A public sector organization hit by ransomware was able to reject payment demands and restore full operations within hours, thanks to immutable PowerProtect backups managed via Redapt. Routine testing had confirmed their backups—covering local, cloud, and SaaS data—were safe and accessible. 

Redapt’s Role in Resilient Recovery 

The best backup technology requires careful architecture and periodic validation. Redapt partners with your business to: 

  • Assess RTO/RPO goals and design tailored recovery processes
  • Integrate PowerProtect with your existing and future cloud investments 
  • Conduct regular recovery drills and provide actionable reporting 
  • Continuously refine backup strategies and automate compliance reporting
     

    Securing Generative AI: The New Frontier 

GenAI and Large Language Models offer enterprises massive productivity and innovation gains, powering smart automation, personalized customer experiences, and rapid analytics. Yet, as organizations fast-track GenAI adoption, sophisticated attackers seek to exploit new weaknesses. 

Unique Security Risks in AI 

Unlike traditional applications, GenAI models may ingest vast data sets, some of which could be proprietary or sensitive. Data poisoning, prompt injection, unauthorized access, or API abuse could result in model manipulation, intellectual property theft, compliance violations, or even reputational harm. 

Key Vulnerabilities: 
  • Data Lineage: Risk of unvetted, malicious or misappropriated data in the model’s training set
  • Model Drift: Subtle, unauthorized tweaks can degrade accuracy or introduce hidden vulnerabilities
  • API Exposure: Weak API protections can allow data exfiltration or denial of service
  • Supply Chain Threats: Third-party tools or plugins may introduce backdoor
     
    Building a Secure GenAI Environment 

Securing GenAI requires an extension of Zero Trust principles and trusted infrastructure: 

  • Secured Supply Chain: Dell’s commitment to hardware and firmware integrity applies to servers powering AI workloads, ensuring the compute roots of trust are present even for most advanced clusters
  • IAM, MFA, and RBAC: GenAI deployments receive enhanced user and application identity controls—ensuring only authorized projects, users, or applications can query models, access data, and manage configurations
  • Continuous Monitoring and Penetration Testing: Specialized testing for AI environments uncovers model-specific threats; monitoring tools detect unusual data or query patterns
  • Encrypted Storage and Data Traffic: Protects both training datasets and models at rest and in transit
  • Network Segmentation and Policy Enforcement: Fine-grained rules limit traffic to and from AI workloads, reducing potential lateral movement 

Practical AI Security Example: 
A software company built its customer service chatbot using a proprietary LLM hosted on Dell Trusted Infrastructure. Redapt conducted a penetration test specifically for AI systems, discovering a possible API endpoint misconfiguration. By resolving the problem and deploying additional monitoring, the company protected sensitive customer data and reinforced trust with its users. 

Redapt and Dell: Your Partners for AI Security 

Redapt’s deep experience with secure architectures, coupled with Dell’s secure infrastructure, enables organizations to rapidly—and responsibly—deploy GenAI. Our experts advise on AI governance, conduct regular assessments, architect secure environments, and provide ongoing review as the technology and your needs evolve.  

A Collaborative Approach to Ongoing Resilience 

True cyber resilience is a moving target, not a fixed destination. As attack vectors multiply, compliance demands rise, and your own operations evolve—your security must be agile and holistic. The combined experience of Dell Technologies and Redapt offers not just technology, but guidance, partnership, and a path to ongoing improvement. 

How the Partnership Works: 
  • Assessment and Strategy: In-depth security posture evaluations, tailored to your business risks and objectives
  • Design and Integration: End-to-end integration of Dell’s trusted hardware, software, and data protection platforms, architected by Redapt experts
  • Deployment and Training: Seamless rollouts with customized playbooks and user enablement
  • Testing and Optimization: Regular stress testing and ongoing tuning to keep your defenses sharp
  • Continuous Support: Responsive partner support as business and compliance needs grow 

Through each stage, you gain a security program that not only ticks the boxes for today but evolves with you, preparing for the unexpected and supporting innovation—whether deploying the latest SaaS tools or integrating advanced AI. 

 Ready to Start? Empower Your Enterprise 

Facing the modern threat environment with confidence demands a deliberate, collaborative approach. By uniting Dell’s expertise in secure infrastructure with Redapt’s proven guidance and partnership-driven implementation, your organization gains the tools and team it needs to thrive—no matter what challenges the future brings. 

Take the first step: 

Contact Redapt to schedule a cybersecurity assessment and begin charting your organization’s path to stronger, more confident resilience against cyber threats. From first assessment to full deployment and beyond, we’re here to guide and empower your success at every stage.