PC maker powerhouse Dell announced today a flurry of new enterprise security solutions for the company's line of enterprise products.
The new services can be grouped into two categories, with (1) new solutions meant to protect the supply chain of Dell products while in transit to their customers and (2) new features meant to improve the security of Dell products while in use.
Physical supply-chain security
While Dell has previously invested in securing its customers' supply chains, the company has announced today three new services.
The first is named SafeSupply Chain Tamper Evident Services and, as its name implies, involves Dell adding anti-tampering seals to its devices, transport boxes, and even entire pallets before they leave Dell factories.
The anti-tampering seals will allow buyers of Dell equipment to determine if any intermediary agents or transporters have opened boxes or devices to alter physical components.
The second supply chain security offering, named the Dell SafeSupply Chain Data Sanitization Services, is meant for tampering made at the storage level.
"With a NIST-compliant hard drive wipe, Dell Technologies helps businesses ensure their device has a clean slate before they add their company image," Dell said today[1] about this new service.
Further, Dell is also adding a new security feature named Secured Component Verification for its line of PowerEdge custom-ordered servers.
Dell says that with the help of an embedded cryptographically-signed certificate, companies would be able to verify that their PowerEdge servers arrive as they were ordered and built after the server is sealed and shipped from the factory.
According to Dell, the new Secured Component Verification will help by:
- verifying that changes are not made to system components (e.g., memory or hard drive swap, I/O changes, etc.);
- protecting against cybersecurity risks by meeting supply chain security standards