Dell Focuses on Multicloud Security with Zero Trust Center of Excellence

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How do you know if you have zero trust? While many organizations have invested in purpose-built Zero Trust security products, controlling user access is not just about deploying a software solution, but about actively managing user access to data, wherever they are found in the environment.

It involves creating new controls and procedures from scratch. It's a challenge that Dell Technologies recognizes and aims to address with a new solution.

Dell today announced the Zero Trust Center of Excellence in partnership with CyberPoint International and the Maryland Innovation Security Institute. The center will open in the spring of 2023 at DreamPort in the U.S. Cyber ​​Commands Innovation Center.

The center will provide enterprises with a secure data center to validate zero-trust use cases and assess the maturity of their zero-trust strategies.

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Dell's announcement comes as more and more organizations are hitting roadblocks with their zero-trust strategies.

While Okta finds that the number of companies with a zero trust initiative already underway has more than doubled from 24% in 2021 to 55% in 2022, other research indicates that only 21% of organizations have embraced zero trust as a fundamental model across the enterprise.

Dell's new service will provide businesses with a space to test the implementation of zero trust as a foundational model, so they can create a true zero trust strategy from the ground up, designed to support a multi-cloud environment.

"In a multi-cloud world, a company's cybersecurity strategy must transcend its infrastructure and extend to its applications and data," said John Roese, Global CTO of Dell Technologies. "We believe a zero-trust strategy is the best way forward. Dell has a proven IT and security foundation, technology integration experience, and an extensive ecosystem of global partners to help simplify customers' cybersecurity transformations."

More broadly, the new center has the ability to help accelerate the development of new zero-trust solutions that enterprises can leverage to protect their environments against identity-based threats.

It should be noted that the center will also complement Dell Cybersecurity Advisory Services' Zero Trust Service, which provides organizations with a roadmap to Zero Trust based on their existing security assets.

The Zero Trust Market

As identity-based threats continue to rise, the zero-trust market continues to gain momentum, with researchers expecting the market to grow from a value of 27.4 billion in 2022 to $60.7 billion by 2027.

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