Resilience as a superpower: Dell's Simon Jelly on AI-era cyber resilience (theCUBE)
Key points
Key takeaways from theCUBE's interview with Simon Jelly, vice president of product management at Dell Technologies, recorded at the AI Trust and Cyber Resilience Summit with analyst Christophe Bertrand (October 2026):
- AI enlarges the attack surface: AI increases both the value and the volume of data, and frontier models let low-severity vulnerabilities be chained into real attack vectors — so protection now has to assume that anything software-connected is at risk.
- From RPO/RTO to proving recoverability: the mindset shift is from "I have a copy of my data" to "can I prove I can recover my minimum viable business", measured by mean time to detect and mean time to recover.
- Resilience as architecture, not afterthought: resilience must be built into the architecture and the business process itself, with anomaly detection in primary storage feeding the recovery layer — not bolted on as point products.
- The vaulting case: cyber vaulting now demands true physical isolation, immutability and an offline intelligence layer that scans recovery copies for compromise; Dell says customers running vaults without that intelligence layer have re-infected themselves by restoring time-bomb threats.
- Regulators demand proof, not promises: regulation globally is shifting from holding a copy of data to demonstrating recoverability of critical business services, particularly for utilities and banks, because attacks can destabilise entire countries.
