Let’s kick-start the week with a look at Rubrik and its work with Amazon Web Services (News - Alert) (AWS).

Rubrik is a cybersecurity company that focuses on (and invests deeply in) data security. Keep one thing in mind as this story progresses, though — this involves much more than data backups.

Here’s why:

As we know, cyberattacks are on the rise; they’re big-time surging in both frequency and sophistication, a one-two punch that we definitely don’t want to be on the receiving end of. But despite significant investments actively being made in infrastructure security tools, bad actors are still piercing businesses’ defensive lines. (Especially when said defenses are legacy data backup tools, which are proving increasingly vulnerable.)

“When a cyberattack takes down your data,” as one Rubrik team member put it, “it takes down your organization. So, it’s time for a new security approach — one that marries the investments you’ve made in infrastructure with top-notch data security.”

That’s why Rubrik douses its strategies with comprehensive cyber resilience. This equips organizations with what they need to a.) keep all data completely safe and available, b.) spot data risks and threats way sooner, and c.) recover data quickly, securely and confidently.

“Legacy backup isn’t built for cyber resilience,” the company added. “So secure your data, minimize downtime, and get back to what you do best.”

In that vein, Rubrik recently announced an expansion of its cyber resilience capabilities for cloud data that runs on AWS.

“Surviving a cyberattack is not as simple as just restoring from a backup,” explained Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer at Rubrik. “IT and security teams must also rapidly pinpoint when the attack occurred, identify what was compromised, and determine if sensitive data was impacted — all while trying to find a clean, safe recovery point.”

With Rubrik and AWS, these needs become well within reach.

Rubrik’s expanded capabilities with AWS, quote, “aim to accelerate cyber resilience for joint customers by expediting the identification of and response to hidden threats, and by shortening the time to true cyber recovery.” Central to this expansion, there’s Rubrik Cloud Vault (RCV) and additional security features for AWS; Anomaly Detection, Threat Monitoring, Threat Hunting, and Data Discovery & Classification.

Here’s the long-story-short recap:

• RCV on AWS is designed to address problems that arise when businesses turn to isolated data vaults to ensure data protection; this can introduce headaches when it comes to maintaining and securing a traditional environment. (Lest we forget how such manual, time-consuming processes are prone to human error.) With RCV on AWS, teams can maintain off-site, air-gapped, immutable data copies in an isolated environment in order to withstand rampaging cyber threats. (More details here and here.)
• Anomaly Detection determines the scope of rampant cyberattacks; it harnesses machine learning to detect deletions, undue modifications, and encryptions for optimal ransomware investigation and accelerated recovery time.
• Threat Monitoring boosts investigative capabilities and reduces the risk of malware reinfection by automatically analyzing backup snapshots using an up-to-date threat intelligence feed.
• Threat Hunting provides insights that also help avoid malware reinfection by analyzing the history of data for red-flag indicators of compromise to identify the initial point, scope, and time of infection as teams root out the problem(s).
• Data Discovery & Classification reduce sensitive data exposure and manage exfiltration risk by locating sensitive data in files and applications and classifying them to help orgs stay compliant.

“We recognize making all this possible is no small task, but we believe the power of Rubrik and AWS makes it simple for organizations to bounce back quickly and safely while minimizing the risk of reinfection,” Gupta added. “Together, we will continue to bring our partnership to new heights to better protect organizations, and so we can join them on their journey to cyber resilience.”