Recently, the cloud data management and security company Rubrik announced two significant developments in cybersecurity to enhance its services for customers.
Among the announcements is the development of a new cyber-resilient solution with Google Cloud designed to help Google Cloud customers quickly recover from cyberattacks or operational disruptions. Additionally, Rubrik announced a partnership between Rubrik Annapurna and Agentspace to explore methods for enabling enterprises to securely access and utilize their data for AI-driven applications on Google Cloud.
The new cyber resilient solution to streamline and optimize operations
The new solution from Rubrik and Google Cloud assists customers in streamlining data protection, optimizing backup and recovery processes, and ensuring business continuity.
The collaboration delivers:
- Cloud-based isolated recovery environment in Google Cloud: Rubrik, in collaboration with Mandiant, is developing a cloud-based isolated recovery solution on Google Cloud. It enhances organizational cyber resilience by ensuring that business-critical data backups are secure from cyber threats and efficiently and safely replicated to Google Cloud via Rubrik’s Secure Vault after an incident. By leveraging Rubrik’s Data Threat Analytics and Orchestrated Application Recovery Playbooks, combined with Mandiant’s periodic security assessments and Incident Response services, it establishes a secure recovery environment on Google Cloud, enabling swift core application restoration and business continuity.
- Strengthened protection of Google Cloud Engine and Google Cloud SQL: New threat-analytics capabilities are planned for Anomaly Detection, Data Discovery, and Classification, Turbo Threat Hunting, and Threat Monitoring. These capabilities work to proactively detect cyber threats, accelerate incident response and recovery, and ensure sensitive data remains protected and compliant.
- Enterprise-grade protection for Google Workspace: Rubrik’s solution is designed for Google Workspace customers, enabling them to protect their mission-critical SaaS data from cyber threats, insider risks, and accidental deletion through newly offered immutable backups, automated anomaly detection, and rapid, granular recovery.
“As organizations increasingly shift their business-critical data to the cloud, they’re confronted with new challenges in protecting sensitive information against rapidly evolving cyber threats– challenges their traditional security technologies simply can’t address,” said Anneka Gupta, chief product officer at Rubrik. “We aim to empower Google Cloud customers to address these challenges with confidence, enabling them to strengthen their cyber resilience, streamline data protection, optimize backup and recovery processes, and ensure business continuity in the face of any cyber incident.”
Rubrik’s enhanced protection for Google Cloud Engine is now available. The new threat analytics capabilities, broader protection for Google Cloud SQL, extended protection for Google Workspace, and a Cloud-based Isolated Recovery Environment will be generally available later this year.
Rubrik Annapurna and Agentspace partnership
This new partnership will see Rubrik acting as a secure data source for Agentspace, better ensuring that enterprise AI models can retrieve, govern, and protect sensitive data with Zero Trust security on Google Cloud.
This partnership will provide businesses with the tools to securely build and scale AI-powered applications, streamlining the implementation process. The collaboration between Rubrik Annapurna and Agentspace will empower companies to evolve their AI projects from pilot to production in the cloud by offering seamless, secure access to data across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments.
The Rubrik Agentspace Integration includes:
- Secure AI Retrieval: Customers will be able to utilize Rubrik Annapurna as a data source within Agentspace, ensuring that AI models can securely access structured and unstructured data across the enterprise.
- Zero-Trust Authorization: Enterprise companies are enabled to control access via policy-based governance, ensuring that only authorized AI models and users can query data within Agentspace.
- Streamlined AI Workflows: This integration enables businesses to develop AI-powered applications more quickly without sacrificing security or compliance.
“For AI to deliver real business value, enterprises need secure, well-governed data foundations,” said Stephen Orban, VP of Migrations, ISVs, and Marketplace at Google Cloud. “With Rubrik Annapurna as a secure data source for Agentspace, organizations can seamlessly and securely access their data within Rubrik to power AI-driven insights while maintaining strong governance and compliance.”
The combination of Rubrik Annapurna and Agentspace will provide Google Cloud customers with the following:
- Fast, API-driven secure access to enterprise-wide data for AI training and retrieval.
- Anomaly detection and access monitoring to prevent AI data leaks and unauthorized use.
- Seamless AI data pipelines to integrate Google Cloud AI models with enterprise data.
- Automated compliance enforcement to protect sensitive AI training data.
Furthermore, Rubrik Annapurna will integrate Zero Trust security into AI training workflows, empowering organizations to govern, classify, and mobilize their enterprise data confidently. Built-in anomaly detection and policy-driven data pipelines offer real-time access to AI training data while also enforcing security policies at scale and assisting companies in meeting regulatory requirements without hindering development.
This process guarantees that AI applications on Google Cloud are fueled by high-quality, well-managed data, which is crucial for enabling reliable and responsible AI innovation.
As cloud deployments have become increasingly complex and compliance more essential, establishing partnerships with cloud providers has been key for channel players. Read more about StackGen’s recent addition of its Generative Infrastructure Platform to the Google Cloud Marketplace.