Securing enterprise data and workloads is cited as a top concern by today’s chief information officers and IT buyers, even more so than cloud computing, analytics and collaboration software.
But those stakeholders and their companies need to balance the friction from those initiatives with their business goals. This is where the principle of trusted infrastructure comes into play, as it allows organizations to be secure but also agile.
“Zero trust was a buzzword for a long time, but now … a lot more people are taking it a lot more seriously.” said Steve Kenniston (pictured right), senior cybersecurity consultant at Dell Technologies Inc. “But ultimately, IIf you don’t have faith [in] Devices, applications or data, you can’t get to it. The question is, can you implement this as well as permit the business to be as agile as it needs to be to be competitive?”
Kennison and Pete Gerr (pictured left), senior consultants in cybersecurity and resiliency marketing at Dell, spoke with CUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante at the Dell Infrastructure Event “A Blueprint for a Trusted Infrastructure”., during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio. They discussed Dell’s approach and philosophy around the concept of Trusted Infrastructure. (*Disclosure below.)
Dell and trusted infrastructure
Dell’s Trusted Infrastructure concept has always existed; According to Gerr, it just has to adapt to the changing way in which the company’s servers, networks, data security and storage are used.
“Dell Trusted Infrastructure, for us, is a way for us to describe our work through design, development and even the delivery of our IT systems,” he said.
The principle places equal emphasis on the infrastructure in which data and workloads reside, and on the data itself. This approach is more relevant today and, according to Gerr, contradicts the misguided view that the cloud is more of a “panacea” for security threats than an attack surface himself is
Dell’s cybersecurity perspective places a particular focus on cyber resilience, the ability of organizations to respond to and recover from threats after the fact.
“We call it resilience,” explained Gerr. “Organizations need to build resilience throughout their organization so not only can they withstand a threat, but they can react, recover and continue with their operations.”
Here’s the full video interview, part of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Infrastructure Event “A Blueprint for a Trusted Infrastructure”.:
(*Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the “A Blueprint for Trusted Infrastructure” event. Neither Dell Technologies Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor any other sponsors have editorial control over the content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
