Dell Technologies AI Security with Arun Krishnamoorthy

AI has become one of the hottest topics in IT. Learn how Dell can help you make sure that as you deploy AI solutions, you do it in a secure manner.

Dell Technologies emphasizes that security is a critical aspect of their journey in accelerating customer outcomes, whether through private and hybrid cloud solutions or advancements in AI. They have established the Dell AI Factory to mass-produce AI solutions at scale with high quality and efficiency, bringing together Dell’s infrastructure, including AI PCs and data center components (compute, storage, GPU-enabled with partners like Nvidia, Intel, and AMD), along with an ecosystem of AI-enabled partners. This comprehensive approach aims to help customers accelerate their AI innovation and achieve faster time to market, recognizing security as a day-zero conversation for successful AI deployment.

Dell highlights the evolving landscape of AI, from traditional AI to generative AI and the emerging agentic AI. With agentic AI, applications will increasingly think for themselves and exercise judgment with minimal human intervention, posing significant security challenges. To address these evolving risks, Dell advocates for a cross-functional architectural approach involving IT, business, data, and security teams from the outset. They stress the importance of organizing and securing data, which fuels AI models, and implementing robust governance. The company is developing an architecture to secure AI deployments, from model training and data organization to runtime environments on-premise, in the cloud, or on AI PCs, acknowledging the shift of AI use cases to the edge.

Dell’s security strategy for AI focuses on making security and resilience an architectural design choice, providing services like strategic advisory, implementation, and continuous threat management. They offer a virtual CISO for AI, data security posture assessment to identify and reduce AI-related risks like data poisoning and prompt injection, and managed security services, including managed detection and response (MDR). Their MDR service provides full-stack visibility, proactively monitoring infrastructure, data protection environments, and cloud/container levels for threats. Dell is also partnering to develop an “AI proxy” or “AI firewall” for deep prompt-level inspection, compliance violation assessment, and malicious code detection, and offers penetration testing against OWASP Top 10 AI vulnerabilities, emphasizing a proactive and collaborative approach to securing AI implementations.