
Trust, but verify. That’s a popular Russian proverb President Ronald Reagan introduced to the Western world during the latter years of the Cold War, and one he used with aplomb when signing arms treaties with the U.S.’s rival nuclear power.
The wry aphorism also summarizes the basis for the zero-trust architecture Dell is developing as part of its ESG goals, which mandates that no tech component in a computer system should be assumed safe: Only verified sources can be trusted.