Dell NativeEdge enables secure zero-touch onboarding coupled with a hardened and secure edge operating system, which is fundamental to the fidelity of your edge estate.
Features
The Edge Scenarios
Enable zero-trust security across devices, users, networks, applications, and data managed by Dell NativeEdge
Strengthen security posture by monitoring and understanding all actions of the edge resources through a centralized management UI
Continuously attest and validate the integrity of every resource connected to the distributed edge estate
Leverage select Dell edge infrastructure hardware, NativeEdge Endpoints, optimized for the platform and protected with cryptographic security
Deploy NativeEdge Endpoints to ensure the integrity of the edge infrastructure and the application workloads running on them
Gain peace of mind as the integrity of the NativeEdge Endpoints is certified automatically at every step, from ordering to shipping and delivery, using sophisticated anti-tampering techniques
Ensure security proactively as tampered devices are automatically isolated from the edge estate to protect the enterprise edge from rogue elements
Secure data pipelines from data sources to the edge applications, orchestrated by NativeEdge, running locally or in data centers or the cloud
Combine advanced security measures such as encryption, user access control, secure NativeEdge Catalog, network segmentation, and security orchestration
Leverage telemetry and analytics to proactively assess the security posture of the edge estate without relying on experts with audit capabilities to visit every site
Retailers with a geo-distributed global store/factory footprint rely on regional Managed Service Providers and 3rd party solution vendors to deploy and configure vertically integrated solutions locally at the edge
The edge solutions often use a heterogeneous mix of infrastructure pieces supplied by different vendors
Managing and securing diverse devices that have varying hardware profiles based on locations gets increasingly difficult
The disparate and distributed nature of retail edge environments means they do not often verify the identity of users accessing edge applications and workloads
Retailers seldom have any visibility in the software supply chain of deployed applications
There are no visible automated checks of the fidelity of the apps configured by external MSPs
The stakeholders are unable to determine application compliance with security policies
Manufacturers with a geo-distributed global warehouse and factory footprint rely on regional Managed Service Providers and 3rd party solution vendors to deploy and configure vertically integrated solutions locally at the edge
As new solutions and devices get added to the edge at faraway locations, the surface area for cyberattacks inherently increases while security becomes an afterthought
Difficult to manage and secure diverse devices that have varying hardware profiles based on locations
Devices aren’t continually attested, and the compliance can’t be verified on an extended time scale
The OT edge runs a diverse set of application workloads. Some of these applications interface with equipment such as PLCs are proprietary applications that users have no internal visibility into
The network capabilities in the IT network do not flow down to the OT network, which is logically separate
Infrastructure and application workloads inside the manufacturers’ OT networks do not have access to the level of network security controls that are needed to facilitate a safe OT edge