Credant Technologies was a company formerly located in Addison, Texas that offered products and services for data security.

[1] The company claims that their products protect two million end-points in several industries, such as universities, health-care, aeronautical, financial[2][3] and government/defense.

Other products are self-encrypting drivers that will encrypt all data on that drive without any additional requirements on the client or from the user, BitLocker management systems, Policy Reporting tools.

A major step in the field of security services was made by Dell at the start of 2011 when they acquired SecureWorks[9] and in 2012 with the acquisition of SonicWall, best known for their firewalls and Intrusion Detection and Prevention appliances.

But also other companies Dell bought over the past years offer products and services for security, including Perot Systems and Quest Software.