In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, dealing with cyberattacks has become a daunting challenge for organizations across the globe. The aftermath of such attacks can be catastrophic, leaving organizations stymied for weeks or even months as they scramble to determine the true scope of an attack through recovering their data and systems.

At Rubrik, we take software security extremely seriously. That's why we're proud to announce that Rubrik has adopted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Secure by Design Pledge. This voluntary pledge focuses on enterprise software products and services, and by taking it, we're committing to make a good-faith effort to work towards seven key goals over the next year to further enhance the security of our offerings.

In the fast-paced and interconnected world of business, the continuity of operations after a cyber attack is paramount. Many companies today are embracing the concepts of Minimum Viable Business/Company (MVB/C) as a key strategy in ensuring that their core business applications and processes are able to survive in the face of adversity.

Joint customers utilizing Rubrik for immutable backup are recommended to utilize Rubrik in-place recoveries for impacted Windows VMware Virtual Machines (VMs), standard VM restores for Azure VMs, AWS EC2 instances, and live mounts for Hyper-V and AHV VMs. For VMware VMs this significantly reduces the recovery time by only recovering the changed blocks required to revert the VM to a snapshot before the 04:09 UTC CrowdStrike host update.

Enterprises today generate and store colossal volumes of data in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Gen 2, leveraging these services for cloud-native workloads, archives, and artificial intelligence (AI) training models. However, with the deluge of information comes the amplified risk of exposure to security blind spots and the potential compromise of sensitive, mission-critical data.

The digital landscape is wild--and getting wilder. Research from Rubrik Zero Labs shows that cyber attacks are on the rise, with 94% of organizations reporting a significant attack in the last year. And the attacks are effectively disrupting business, with 62% of those reporting an attack revealing that their systems were compromised. So security teams need to use all of the tools in their toolkits to protect the enterprise.

Human illness is inevitable. So are data breaches. In 2023 alone, there were 10,626 confirmed data breaches, doubling that in 2022 (5,199 breaches). You cannot protect yourself 100% from getting ill. But you can proactively adopt a healthy lifestyle and habits to help reduce the risk and the impact of an illness and recover quickly. Similarly, your organization cannot protect itself 100% from the outcome of a data breach.

In today's digital landscape, where data is the lifeblood of any business, securing and protecting hypervisor environments is paramount. Hypervisors, such as OpenShift Virtualization and Proxmox VE, play a critical role in virtualized environments. The threat landscape constantly evolves, with cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated and data breaches rising.

Cyber threats pose a significant risk to virtualized infrastructure. According to the latest Rubrik Zero Labs report, 83% of encrypted data across all industries is within a virtualized architecture. Virtualized architectures typically have less security coverage than traditional endpoints. This creates security dead spots and consequently allows attackers unfettered access.

Do you remember the last time you didn’t have water? Reliable water delivery is something many of us take for granted. Our local water treatment plant sits at the edge of our neighborhood, and I pass it every day on my way to take the kids to school. Not a lot seems to go on there, so it never occurred to me that I should be concerned about an attack on this critical infrastructure. What does occur to me is the possibility of a cyberattack on our water system.