Dell APEX Protection Services - Cyber Recovery Vault

Dell APEX Protection Services – Cyber Recovery Vault is a fully managed, subscription-based cyber resilience solution that provisions an isolated, air-gapped vault environment purpose-built to safeguard critical enterprise data from ransomware, insider threats, and destructive malware. The architecture enforces a logical and operational air gap between production infrastructure and the vault using automated, policy-driven data movement windows, ensuring that no persistent network path exists between environments. Data ingested into the vault is written as immutable, locked copies using Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) appliances with DataIQ-powered analytics, preventing any modification or deletion by external actors or compromised administrator accounts.

At the core of the solution sits Dell's CyberSense analytics engine, which performs index-level, content-aware threat analysis on every recovery point ingested into the vault. CyberSense uses over 200 indicators of compromise (IOCs) and machine-learning models to detect data corruption, ransomware encryption artifacts, and file-system anomalies — producing a confidence score for each recovery point so operations teams can identify the last known clean copy with precision. The service is delivered through Dell APEX as an operational expenditure model, with Dell managing infrastructure lifecycle, software patching, capacity scaling, and 24×7 health monitoring, eliminating the need for customers to procure, rack, and maintain dedicated recovery hardware.

Dell APEX Cyber Recovery Vault is particularly differentiated by its contractually backed Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) service-level agreements, a capability that distinguishes it from self-managed backup solutions. Enterprises gain a documented, tested recovery runbook maintained by Dell professional services, regular automated failover exercises, and integration with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager or third-party orchestration frameworks. The solution targets highly regulated industries — including financial services, healthcare, energy, and government — where board-level cyber resilience mandates require demonstrable, independently auditable recovery capabilities.

Ideal for

• Ransomware recovery for financial institutions requiring sub-4-hour RTO on tier-1 banking applications with regulator-auditable clean-copy verification
• Healthcare system protection where patient record databases and PACS imaging archives must maintain immutable copies isolated from compromised clinical networks
• Energy and utility OT/IT convergence scenarios where SCADA historian data and operational datasets need air-gapped protection separate from corporate IT backup infrastructure
• Federal and state government agencies meeting CISA CIRCIA and NIST CSF 2.0 mandates for cyber resilience with documented, tested recovery plans and immutable audit trails
• Multinational enterprises consolidating disparate regional backup silos into a centrally managed vault service with consistent RPO enforcement across hybrid cloud and on-premises workloads
• Managed service providers offering white-label cyber recovery assurance to mid-market clients leveraging Dell APEX multi-tenancy and isolated vault segmentation per customer

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.