Safeguarding data in today’s cyber landscape is no small feat. And with data growing at an explosive rate, more than 65 percent of IT and security leaders surveyed believe their organization’s current data growth is outpacing their ability to secure this data and manage risk, as found in the latest Rubrik Zero Labs State of Data Security report.

In a typical ransomware attack, an adversary attempts to deploy ransomware directly on the machines they wish to encrypt. However, ransomware groups are increasingly adopting a newer tactic to ensure the success of their campaigns: remote encryption.

Data is at the heart of nearly every business operation, and it’s critical to ensure the security and integrity of that data. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has long been a popular choice for organizations seeking a scalable, cost-effective, and resilient storage solution for their data needs. In fact, nearly one million organizations around the world rely on Amazon S3 to store hundreds of exabytes of unstructured, business-critical data.

In our previous blog, we discussed the importance of product quality, different types of testing we rely on at Rubrik, and how automated testing plays a pivotal role in ensuring quality of our products. Relying heavily on Unit, Component and Integration testing is important. But there will be code paths which we may not be able to cover using these types of tests. In the picture below, we can see a high-level view of our solution.

With the digitalization of patient data, the healthcare industry has significantly improved and transformed healthcare processes. This shift to digital data has brought many benefits, like improved quality of care, reduction in errors, and improved communication. However, the shift to digitalization has also led to the exponential collection of data, which is primarily unstructured. To put things in perspective, a typical healthcare and life sciences organization manages over 32.6 million sensitive files.

A pair of round number milestones has made me deeply reflective about my life and that of Rubrik. In October, I turned 50. And ten years ago today, my Co-Founders and I started Rubrik. I want to talk more about the second landmark first because it’s not just a personal watershed but a notable one as well for our customers, partners, colleagues, and investors. Let me take you back to Monday, January 27, 2014, which seems like yesterday and long ago at the same time.

Here at Rubrik, few things excite us more than knowing that the work we do enables a smoother functioning of our governments. Government organizations have an important duty to defend our nation’s critical institutions and essential infrastructure against threat actors—while operating with limited budgets and limited resources. Rubrik has a long history of securing public sector institutions. We have relentlessly focused on developing products that ensure rapid and confident cyber recovery.

With Atlassian ending support in February 2024 for Jira Software Server – an on-premises deployment of Jira Software - what’s your plan for data protection if you choose to migrate to the cloud? While Atlassian has plenty of tools in place out of the box to protect your data, there’s always more you can do to help prevent data loss.

Rubrik Zero Labs’ recent study accentuated several hard truths we think are important and warrant a response from Rubrik’s CISO Advisory Board. First, let’s confirm what many of us have already discussed: It’s not fun to be a CISO right now. There’s an overwhelming amount of expectation—from the board to business unit owners—to figure out how to grow and use data, but also keep it secure, and figure out what happens when it’s not.

It goes without saying that organizations must back up their critical data to ensure business continuity in the event of cyber attacks, disasters, operational failures, or insider threats. But are passive backups enough in today’s environment of sophisticated cyber threats? Despite having backups and various security tools to monitor infrastructure, organizations remain vulnerable to attackers who are still managing to penetrate defenses.