Editorial

Rubrik updates help organisations recover from ransomware attacks

Product updates provide ransomware impact, sensitive data risk assessment and mass recovery

Posted 18 May 2021 by Christine Horton


Rubrik has updated its data security features to enable organisations to assess the impact of ransomware attacks and automate recovery operations to maintain business continuity.

Rubrik says new capabilities include workflows to quickly identify affected business data and initiate mass recovery, integration with security operations tools, user-based activity monitoring to see who is accessing sensitive data, and alerting of anomalous data events via a new security dashboard.

With digital transformation accelerating as a direct result of the pandemic, ransomware threats escalated exponentially. From mid-year 2019 to mid-year 2020, the total number of global ransomware reports increased more than 715 percent according to Bitdefender’s 2020 Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report

“There has never been a greater need to protect and quickly recover from rising cyber threats like ransomware, which are devastating businesses on a daily basis,” said Dan Rogers, president of Rubrik. “Rubrik continues to…address new and evolving data risks, allowing for quick recovery from attacks and protection of precious IP, no matter where the data is stored.” 

New capabilities include automated mass recovery of applications to rapidly restore normal IT and business operations from cyberattacks, such as ransomware.

Rubrik also announced Integration with automation frameworks, such as Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR and ServiceNow Incident Response, enabling tighter collaboration between ITOps and SecOps teams for faster recovery.

The vendor is offering two factor system authentication to help prevent unauthorized access, and data risk management with new Sonar user behavior analysis to determine who is accessing, modifying or adding files.

Finally customers can see a global view of the their data estate so IT teams can quickly and accurately identify affected workloads and files.

Disaster Recovery as-a-service

Rubrik also announced AppFlows, the company’s new disaster recovery (DR) solution. AppFlows are managed via a SaaS-based control plane, and leverage application blueprints that capture the resource mapping and workload dependencies. These enable reliable failover in the event of a datacentre outage. Applications in a VMware environment can failover to a secondary site, or to VMware Cloud on AWS for maximum flexibility. AppFlows makes it cost effective to bring disaster recovery to the full portfolio of enterprise applications. 

Other updates include:

  • Rubrik-managed backup and recovery for Microsoft 365 applications, including SharePoint sites and Teams;
  • New Network Attached Storage (NAS) Cloud Direct built on Rubrik’s acquisition of Igneous IP and technology, protecting and rapidly recovering petabyte-scale NAS systems;
  • Protection of next-generation Kubernetes workloads;
  • Automated discovery and backup for SAP HANA on public cloud and on-premises;
  • Intelligent cloud archival to optimize costs of public cloud object-based storage;
  • Backup from NetApp SnapMirror;
  • Consistent point-in-time backups for Nutanix Files and Live Mount for Nutanix AHV backups;
  • Offload backups to Oracle Data Guard standby databases with failover/switchover awareness; 
  • Delivery of policy-driven backups for Cassandra databases via Polaris; and 
  • Efficient and incremental backups for vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC).