As the year draws to a close, it’s no secret that 2023 has brought with it a steady rise in cyberattacks. That’s despite there being no shortage of cybersecurity technologies and tools on the market.

Much has changed, especially because of the advent of artificial intelligence. The sophistication and the volume of attacks have increased dramatically this year, according to Mihir Maniar (pictured), vice president of products at Dell Technologies Inc.

“The talent shortage that companies have remains,” he said. “For them to create a good cybersecurity hygiene, to go and make sure that they have all the controls in place, the resiliency practices in place is really hard for them. Those kinds of things have remained the same, but the thing that has evolved is the industry. The industry standards and frameworks keep evolving.”

Maniar spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Rob Strechay at the Cyber Resiliency Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed evolved industry standards and how Dell is looking to respond. (* Disclosure below.)

A three-step approach to creating a secure and resilient infrastructure

This year has seen a sophistication of attacks, with attackers using AI along with malware. At the same time, AI is being used in copilots on the customer side, according to Maniar.

“You have copilots for security operations teams. That helps to overcome some of these attacks,” he said.

Of course, there is no shortage of tooling and security products on the market, but how might organizations simplify their overall strategy? It’s important to remember that the threat surface area has expanded dramatically, according to Maniar.

“You’re having users coming from any location; you have things connecting to applications, applications morphing into multicloud,” he said. “With this vast expansion of threat service area, it’s really hard for security professionals to keep up, including the sophistication of threats and then talent shortages.”

That’s where Dell comes in. The company wants to ensure its client and infrastructure businesses create trusted products, Maniar explained.

“The first step is to create trusted products on both sides of the fence, whether it’s hardware or software or cloud products, going all the way from secure boot, secure OS, secure supply chain verification of hardware and software, to create an infrastructure which customers can trust,” he said.

The next step for Dell is to take away the complexity from organizations by creating a set of managed security services. Those are end-to-end security services for organizations facing shortages.

“All the way from advisory services for zero trust to building out all these security controls. The threats to security have expanded. You’ve got to create all these controls to put into place,” Maniar said. “The third one, being a very robust set of resiliency practices.”

Those practices span from a good vulnerability management service that Dell can provide to penetration testing and breach attack simulation service, Mania pointed out. That’s to shift left and create more proactive services to catch things before they actually happen.

“You’ve got to be prepared for emergencies, and that’s where the resiliency service comes in,” he said.

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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