Rubrik today announced a slate of product updates, enhancements, and additions designed to enhance protection for cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. The new capabilities address the ever-increasing number of locations where an organization’s data lives and protect businesses from the modern threat landscape.
New technical updates address backup and security in hypervisor environments
Rubrik says its slew of updates and new features will meet organizations where they are, as cloud adoption and vendor consolidation continue to expand where and how data lives in a tech stack. The new offerings extend Rubrik’s unified management, increased visibility, and stronger security measures to more SaaS, cloud, and enterprise applications.
The following capabilities were rolled out in today’s announcement:
- Cloud Posture Risk Management (CPR): CPR addresses the lack of data visibility by automatically discovering and inventorying cloud data assets and identifying unprotected or sensitive data. CPR helps organizations make informed backup decisions and strengthen their overall backup posture by protecting only what truly matters, reducing risk and unnecessary costs.
- Oracle Cloud Protection: Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) will support data protection for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) —beginning with Oracle databases in OCI and Oracle Cloud VMWare Solution (OCVS). The solution is designed to enable customers to safeguard their cloud-based environments with the same robust, unified backup and recovery capabilities they rely on for other cloud and on-premises data.
- Expanding Data Protection to PostgreSQL: Rubrik recognizes the critical importance of fortifying data defenses across all platforms. According to a recent Rubrik Zero Labs report, attackers target backups in 96% of cyberattacks. By extending coverage to PostgreSQL, Rubrik ensures that one of the world’s most popular open-source databases thrives in the face of evolving digital threats. The comprehensive data security solution ensures organizations maintain data backup, availability, and recoverability.
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Data Protection: Sixty percent of enterprises have adopted Kubernetes, emphasizing the critical need for cyber resilience solutions for their critical workloads. Rubrik’s new OpenShift support marks a significant step in securing these environments with comprehensive, automated, and immutable backups that deliver fast recovery from cyber incidents. Businesses can choose virtualization platforms for critical business processes without compromising manageability or cyber resilience.
- Azure DevOps and GitHub Backup: For organizations that use continuous integration and development to accelerate innovation, Rubrik now protects Azure DevOps and GitHub with cyber-resilient automated backups, granular recovery, extended retention, and robust compliance coverage for critical data stores.
- Rubrik Cloud Vault (RCV) for AWS: With flexible policies and/or regions, RCV reduces the complexity and cost of managing a highly secure off-site archival location. It features immutable, isolated, logically air-gapped off-site backups combined with role-based access controls, advanced encryption, and retention locks to provide unparalleled confidence in data recovery.
- Security and Resilience for Microsoft Dynamics 365: Rubrik’s enhanced protection for Microsoft Dynamics 365 aims to ensure businesses can secure their critical operational and customer data within a unified platform.
Rubrik has also announced a new sandbox for Salesforce customers, which is planned for release in 2025. This sandbox will allow customers to select objects and records based on specific criteria. The process aims to prevent seeding errors by thoroughly analyzing data selection size versus destination size availability before moving data to the sandbox environment.
“Cyber criminals won’t stop innovating, and neither will we. Our utmost priority is the security, safety, and appropriate accessibility of our customer’s data, regardless of where the data lives,” said Arvind Nithrakashyap, the CTO and co-founder of Rubrik. “We are seamlessly integrating new technologies across the world’s major cloud platforms, SaaS offerings, and on-premises so our customers can better detect compromised data, enhance the speed of identifying affected data, and accelerate the discovery of clean entry points.”
Rubrik signals added focus on cyber resilience throughout its offerings
In addition to the announcements listed above, Rubrik also released a new offering targeting the rise in identity-related attacks. The company calls the new solution Identity Recovery the “industry’s most comprehensive, automated, and secure solution for protecting hybrid identity environments across Entra ID and Active Directory (AD).” It will rapidly and cleanly restore entire identity environments – eliminating manual complexity and reducing downtime.
The goal is to enable organizations to ensure fast, clean recovery of AD and Entra ID without reintroducing malware or misconfigurations, addressing critical downtime when faced with an identity-based attack.
Other enhancements and additions to Rubrik’s resiliency offerings include the following:
- Advanced Security Features for Azure & AWS: Leveraging advanced machine learning and automation, new capabilities available today include anomaly detection, data discovery, classification, and soon, threat hunting and threat monitoring. These capabilities are designed to work together to proactively detect and mitigate cyber threats, accelerate recovery, and ensure sensitive data remains protected and compliant.
- Orchestrated Recovery for Azure VM: Rubrik plans to extend its orchestrated recovery capabilities to the cloud, beginning with Azure VM. The solution, which enables customers to automate recovery sequences, schedule regular test recoveries, and generate comprehensive recovery reports, is designed to reduce complexity and minimize the potential for human error.
- Turbo Threat Hunting: Unlike traditional methods that scan one object at a time or require navigating multiple panes of glass, Turbo Threat Hunting scans at scale by leveraging pre-computed hashes stored within Rubrik’s metadata. This eliminates the need for file-by-file scanning, allowing organizations to pinpoint recovery points free from malware or other threats within seconds—even in the most complex data environments. Internal testing found that Turbo Threat Hunting scans 75,000 backups in up to 60 seconds.
- Enterprise Edition for Microsoft 365: Delivering enterprise-grade security and resilience for Microsoft 365, Rubrik expands its capabilities for organizations to detect, respond to, and recover from attacks rapidly. New capabilities available for Microsoft 365 include sensitive data discovery, which identifies and protects high-risk data before an attack happens, and prioritized recovery, which restores critical data first for fast operational recovery. Soon, Rubrik’s customers using Enterprise Edition for Microsoft 365 will also be able to add anomaly detection, threat monitoring, threat hunting, and self-service recovery capabilities.
Rubrik and Pure Storage launch new offering
Rubrik this week also announced a new collaboration with Pure Storage. The new joint architecture will offer built-in security features like immutable backups, anomaly detection and disaster recovery to help organizations prevent data loss and recover quickly from attacks.
The two companies tout this partnership as an opportunity for organizations to wrangle their unstructured data and leverage it more efficiently without sacrificing security in the process.
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