Many agencies are facing the same challenge: more innovation often means a broader attack surface. In fact, 67% of organizations worry that new technologies expand their exposure to cyber risk. Dell Technologies helps you rethink how you manage that risk by focusing on secure-by-design capabilities and compliance alignment: - **Secure-by-design hardware and software**: Systems are built with security in mind from the start, not bolted on later. This includes features such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), role-based access control (RBAC), and encryption to protect access and data. - **Supply chain integrity**: Dell supports integrity from manufacturing through deployment, helping you validate that devices and components are authentic and have not been tampered with before they enter your environment. - **Built-in compliance alignment**: Many Dell solutions are designed to help agencies address requirements in **FISMA**, **NIST 800-53**, and **FedRAMP** out of the box. This can reduce the time and effort needed to document and demonstrate attack surface reduction. By combining secure-by-design technology, strong access controls, encryption, and supply chain protections, your agency can reduce its attack surface in a measurable way while staying aligned with federal cybersecurity mandates.

Many organizations see room to improve in this area—**80%** acknowledge they could do better at threat detection. Dell Technologies helps agencies reshape their detection and response approach with capabilities designed for modern federal environments: - **Real-time monitoring across endpoints**: Dell solutions provide continuous visibility across devices and endpoints, helping your team see suspicious activity as it happens rather than after the fact. - **AI-powered anomaly detection at the BIOS level**: By using AI to monitor behavior at the BIOS and firmware layer, Dell can help you identify unusual activity that traditional tools might miss. - **Threat intelligence integration**: Dell solutions can integrate with threat intelligence feeds, helping your team prioritize alerts and respond to the most critical issues first. This matters directly for **CISA reporting requirements**, which expect rapid identification and remediation when an incident occurs. With better visibility, AI-driven analytics, and integrated intelligence, your agency can shorten the time from detection to response and keep operations more resilient. In addition, Dell can support your broader strategy by helping you: - Implement **Zero Trust architecture** in line with **OMB M-22-09** and **DoD** guidance. - Deploy **AI-powered threat detection** aligned with the **NIST AI Risk Management Framework**. Together, these capabilities help you modernize your detection and response processes while staying aligned with federal policy and guidance.

Recovery is a major pain point for many organizations—**64%** report that they struggle to recover from a cyberattack and meet their service-level agreements (SLAs). Dell Technologies focuses on helping agencies reimagine recovery so that it becomes a predictable, testable process rather than an ad hoc scramble. Key capabilities include: - **Automated data integrity validation**: Before you restore, Dell solutions can help validate the integrity of your data so you are not accidentally recovering compromised information. - **One-click system restoration**: You can roll systems back to the last known secure state with minimal manual effort, reducing downtime and complexity during an incident. - **Clean room rebuilds**: For heavily compromised environments, Dell supports clean room rebuilds—isolated, trusted environments where you can safely restore and validate systems before putting them back into production. This directly supports **continuity of operations**, where recovery speed is critical. Faster, more reliable recovery helps you: - Keep essential citizen-facing services online. - Meet SLAs more consistently, even after an incident. - Reduce the operational and reputational impact of cyber events. With cyber incidents against federal agencies rising—more than **32,000** incidents in 2023, up nearly **10%** year over year—having a clear, tested recovery strategy is becoming a core part of mission readiness. Dell’s recovery-focused capabilities are designed to help your agency get back to a secure, stable state quickly so you can stay focused on your mission.