Name: The Rubrik Roundup: Quarterly Product & Feature Releases
Uploaded: 2026-05-06T17:01:20.128Z
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Description: The Rubrik Roundup: Quarterly Product & Feature Releases

Transcript for "The Rubrik Roundup: Quarterly Product & Feature Releases": Hey, everyone, and welcome to the Rubik, Roundup, your quarterly look at all the new stuff we've been working on. I'm Justin Rees, part of the product marketing team here at Rubrik. I'm really glad you're here today. We're gonna walk through some pretty exciting updates across the platform, stuff that keeps your data safe, helps you restore very quickly, and keeps your, you know, company safe. And so you'll see new features spanning enterprise workloads, cloud environments, and even, all things AI. And I'll show you how all of these things are designed to help protect, your company from hackers and other cyber threats. And just a quick heads up before we dive in, our tech team is standing by live. They're here to help kind of answer any and all questions you have, so don't be shy. Drop them into the chat, and they will be happy to get to them. And so first, let's do a quick overview of kind of the big, kind of picture. And so that is Rubik's Security Cloud. The threat landscape is getting a lot tougher each and every day. Hackers aren't just attacking your data. They're also targeting your backups, your identity, your cloud apps, and even your AI workloads. And so just backing up data and hoping, you're protected, that's just not enough. Right? I think we all know that. You need a platform that is built to block, these attacks, recover quickly and cleanly, and even secure your identities. And that's exactly what Rubrik Security Cloud, does. Right? It's one platform with kind of four key areas. There's data protection with air gapped, immutable backups. There's cyber recovery, so you can restore fast and clean. There's identity security to protect the keys to your kingdom. And, of course, there's AI acceleration, to make your AI work even smarter and safer. And so all of these updates I'll show you today are tied to one of these key four areas, and they're about helping you stay resilient, in a world that's constantly throwing new threats, your way. And so next up, let's talk about enterprise data protection. And this is really what a lot of you, kinda live day in day out. Right? Your SQL databases, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, these are all very mission critical systems. And so when they go down or get compromised, each and every second counts. And so with that, you know, I'm very excited to announce that Rubrik's support for Proxmox v e is now generally available. Many organizations are adopting Proxmox as part of their virtualization strategy to gain flexibility and cost to kind of savings. But securing these open source environments, has really been, pretty tough, for a lot of organizations. Often relying on, you know, manual scripts or fragmented tools that just increase the risk and complexity. And so with this launch, Rubrik extends, its zero trusted data security platform to Proxmox v e. And, more importantly, delivering a unified and agentless protection kind of layer that eliminates those manual processes. And so this means your Proxmox workloads now can benefit from the same enterprise grade immutability and cyber resilience you, have come to count on for your hybrid environment. And so what does that look like in practice? Well, you know, first, you get native air gapped immutability. And so that means that your backups are secure, unchangeable, and protected from ransomware or, you know, of course, accidental deletion. Second, Rubrik supports unified multi hypervisor operations. And so that means you can manage Proxmox alongside VMware, Cloud, and SaaS workloads all from, you know, that single, pane of glass. No more data silos or, having to juggle multiple tools. And third, policy, kinda driven SLA automation. And so, simple policies for your VMs, nodes, and clusters, and Rubrik automatically handles the discovery scheduling and retention, freeing your team from manual backup jobs and scripts. And so in terms of, use cases, this means you can now confidently modernize your multi hypervisor infrastructure, protects, Proxmox workloads from ransomware and rapidly restore VMs, when you need to meet tight recovery objectives. And so in short, with Rubrik for Proxmox v e, customers now have enterprise grade zero trust data protection for their open source virtualization. Safe, it's, it's automated, and easy, to operate. And it's available now. And so that's what I've got for you, as enterprise data protection and virtualization goes. Next, I'll pass it off to Varun, who's gonna walk you through some game changing AI updates that are helping, you know, organizations stay smarter and safer when it comes to AI security and capabilities. So Varun, take it away. Hi, everyone. My name is Varun Glover. I lead product marketing for SaaS and AI here at Rubrik. I'm gonna dive into some exciting updates in our portfolio. First up, Rubrik agent cloud is now GA. You can control agents with AI regardless of what you build these agents with. You can monitor your agents and get full visibility into their actions with granular app and identity understanding. You can govern them by defining and enforcing custom policies using natural language while also using predefined policies that are tailored to your verticals and your needs. And on top of that, you can block risky tools and detect violations in real time. And lastly, this is something that has been a critical capability that we introduced last year, remediate. You can undo destructive actions instantly with one click rewind. And now that Rubrikation Cloud is GA, we are up leveling the value for you with our brand new semantic AI governance engine, which is a new method for AI governance called Sage. The semantic AI governance engine is a one of its kind proprietary interface, which basically takes natural language policies and uses that to convert semantically into context that the agent can understand. And then we couple that with a proprietary SLM judge that can recommend how to improve those policies and create even better policies, and then help you create the best policies to be able to govern your agents. We have the ability to both monitor agent violations or policy violations, and then we also have the ability to block any policy violations also. This is something that is critical because traditional cybersecurity tools cannot keep up with AI, but you need AI to control AI. And so where Sage comes in is with these custom AI guardrails using SLMs, you get the industry leading fine tune accuracy and latency because this is it's faster than Frontier models and, minimum latency and improved accuracy. This is unified and not fragmented. So regardless of what you're building your agents with, you can control them. And this is augmented by the data and identity context that is in the Rubrik platform. Now let's talk about some of the key developments in our SaaS portfolio. We introduced Rubrik for end to end m three six five cyber resilience last year, and now we have added a lot of really interesting and and critical capabilities to this. The first, autonomous business recovery. This helps you recover your minimum viable business in minutes, not weeks. We continue to have orchestrated UltraID recovery because customers have to deal with both identity resilience as well as data resilience. And then we have data access governance for Copilot to help you prepare for your data for Copilot, whether you're using it for m three six five, SharePoint, OneDrive, any of your needs. And then we also have Rubrikation Cloud for Copilot that helps you accelerate your AI adoption. Let's talk a little bit more about autonomous business recovery from Microsoft three six five. First up, anytime we try to do a mass recovery, you are limited by, the limits that Microsoft is enforced. It can take you months to recover something that should have taken weeks. Now with autonomous business recovery, we help you intelligently classify which users are most critical for your minimum viable business and recover their most critical data, and then recover that autonomously. And so that way, you can recover your minimum viable business in minutes, not weeks, and get up to 100 x faster RTO. And then I'm very excited to introduce Rubrik for Google Workspace. You already love us for Microsoft three six five and a number of your existing workloads. Now we're bringing Rubrik for Google Workspace. And with that, we have end to end cyber resilience for your data identity and AI associated with Google Workspace. So we help you secure your Gmail and drive with immutable air gap protection. We extend Rubik's Security Cloud to the identity plane with Okta, and then we produce a rewind button for your Gemini enterprise portfolio as well. The key benefits, you have a tenant isolated air gap, you have high fidelity recovery, and you have unified security posture. Key use cases to think about here, accidental deletion, simplified off boarding, and then legal and compliance. Rubrik Agent Cloud complements Rubrik for Google Workspace as it helps you secure your Gemini agents as well. That's all of the updates that we had for SaaS and AI. And now I'll pass it over to the identity speaker. Hey, everyone. I'm Shritha, and I'm a senior associate product marketing manager focusing on identity here at Rubrik. Today, I'm incredibly excited to tell you about what has been happening at Rubrik over the past quarter. First, an exciting new integration that closes the loop on your identity attack response, making your defense against cyberattacks faster and more cohesive. Next, I'm also gonna tell you about a new capability that could forever change how you think about identity resilience for your organization. So let's get straight to it. If you watched our previous rubric roundup, you might remember that we had told you about our identity integration with CrowdStrike. In '27, we're supercharging our ecosystem with an exciting new integration with Microsoft Defender for Identity. Like our identity integration with CrowdStrike, this new integration with Microsoft Defender for Identity is part of Rubrik Identity Resilience and available to customers licensed for both Rubrik and Microsoft, either Microsoft Defender for Identity or Entre Protection. So what is this new integration? Imagine you're a SOC analyst. You've detected a compromise, but the attacker is two steps ahead. They've logged in, blended in, and escalated their privileges, positioning themselves for a double ransom. 90% of IT and security leaders say this is their single greatest threat, but the standard defense is dangerously disjointed. When you're juggling multiple fragmented tools and disconnected workflows, detection doesn't talk to recovery, and remediation is a manual uphill battle. This is very avoidable friction, and it becomes the attacker's best friend. It extends dwell time, lets the breach metastasize, and allows attackers to establish persistence. And you can't afford to manage tools that don't talk to each other. Your time is too valuable, and your recovery time objective or RTO is too critical. That's exactly the problem our integration with Microsoft Defender for Identity solves. With this integration, you get a unified platform to close the loop from threat detection to clean recovery in just hours, not days or weeks. Microsoft Defender for Identity detects identity based attacks in real time, includes a kill switch to prevent lateral movement, and flags or remediates malicious sessions. The native integration with Entre enables consistent alerts and workflows. And while detection is essential, it's only half the that's where Rubrik Identity Resilience comes in. Rubrik Identity Resilience helps you surgically roll back malicious changes, orchestrate forest and hybrid recovery, and reduce the risk of attacker persistence by recovering to a clean baseline. Together, we deliver for our customers what neither platform achieves alone, an end to end identity attack response from detection to clean recovery. Now why does this matter? With this integration, our customers can keep systems secure and easy to govern, simplify compliance with an immutable system of record, reduce downtime from weeks to hours, and restore identity infrastructure to a trusted state without disrupting business operations, all on a single platform that reduces friction and orchestrates clean recovery. Speaking of clean recovery, one of the most important parts of clean recovery is removing attacker persistence. Removing attacker persistence often requires restoring identity systems months back in time. When you recover your systems to a clean baseline, that's great. You've removed malicious changes, but you've also wiped months of legitimate business changes. That means months of work is wiped. New hires don't have access they should. Off boarded employees have access they shouldn't. Password resets, group updates, DNS changes, service account updates, tenant configurations, they're all gone. Now what? That's the problem our exciting new roll forward capabilities solve. Today, CSOs face an impossible choice. Roll back and erase months of legitimate work or spend weeks manually rebuilding. But a manual sledgehammer rebuild means massive data loss, operational paralysis, and identity drift across asset directory, Entra, and Okta, not to mention the weeks of manual reconciliation to fix everything the restore broke. Our new roll forward capability solves this. Instead of a blind rollback and huge data loss, we restore your systems to a trusted baseline and then selectively roll forward only the legitimate wanted changes that occurred since the point of compromise. That way, you remove malicious backdoors attackers leave behind, and your systems are clean in hours, not months. You lose nothing, you remove attacker persistence, and you ensure the restored IDP remains the source of truth for your entire SaaS stack, preventing a cascade of authentication failures. How does this work? First, you rebuild to a clean, pre compromised state with Rubik. Then you analyze identity drift. Rubik continuously tracks identity changes, including object creation and deletion, attribute modifications, group membership changes, permission updates, and privileged account modifications. Rubik also helps you triage by risk. Safe, suspicious, and malicious changes are flagged by a tool, like Microsoft Defender for Identity that we were talking about earlier. Then Rubrik surgically reapplies safe changes to the clean baseline, and attacker persistence is kept out of the rebuilt environment. The outcome? A clean and backdoor free IDP rebuilt to a pre compromised state in hours and not months with all legitimate changes preserved. This maintains operational uptime and business continuity and keeps wanted business changes intact without the reconciliation nightmare of a manual rebuild. No operational paralysis. No manual fog. This is huge and can help you reduce RTO by more than 80%. Both Roll Forward and our Microsoft Defender for identity integration are included in Rubik identity resilience. Contact your AE or account manager or visit rubik.com/identity to learn more about identity resilience. Thank you all for listening, and I hope you enjoyed listening to this update as much as I enjoyed delivering it to you. And now I'll pass it to Simon for our cloud update. Hi, everyone. I'm Simon Gilbert, product marketing here at Rubric. This quarter's cloud updates are built around the scene we keep hearing from our customers. Environments are becoming more complex than ever. The number of workloads that need protection keep growing and the expectations around recovery speed are only getting higher. Everything I'm covering today came directly from those conversations. Five updates across PaaS, DevOps, recovery and resilience are all generally available today. Starting with Google Cloud SQL. For a while, when customers running PostgreSQL on Cloud SQL, asked about backup, we couldn't help. That was a real gap and we took it seriously. While we're building the solution, we kept hearing about tension that everyone who worked with Cloud SQL at scale will recognize. If you have running Doctor replicas, which most production environments do, you wanna enable backups using Google's enhanced backups. But you can't have both at the same time. You have to choose one. That's an architectural reality that ends up sitting on every team to solve. There are two other constraints. These are worth understanding. When you're using Google's enhanced backups for Cloud SQL, if your teams are provisioning instances from Terraform or Google CLI, which a lot of enterprise environments do, those instances aren't automatically protected. The second is retention for Post SQL is capped at ten years. For anyone in highly regulated industries such as health care or financial services, that ceiling is likely shorter than your compliance actually needs. Rubrik removes all of it. Rubrik adds immutable air gap backups that complement your Doctor strategy. Every instance automatically discovered and protected regardless of how it was provisioned. And retention is set to whatever your compliance requirements actually demand. Immutable air gap backups for every Cloud SQL instance, no changes to your Doctor strategy, no ceiling on retention, generally available today. Staying on databases, MSCQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS are now generally available on Rubik's purpose built relational database engine. This is worth clarifying because it matters. We didn't just add two more workloads to our supported list. MSCQL and MySQL are now protected on the same engine we built specifically for relational database protection. The same one RDS post SQL runs on. This means consistent behavior, a consistent security posture, and generally unified management. In practice, immutable backups are on by default with no additional configuration required. There's a single view across all RDS databases regardless of region or account. And for teams running PostgreSQL alongside MS SQL and MySQL, which is really common. It's all managed from one platform. For organizations that have been managing protection across different tools and different database types, this is a consolidation you've been looking for available today. Rubrik launched DevOps production over this year. For context, source code repositories and DevOps pipelines are becoming a serious attack surface. When a repo is compromised or deleted, the impact goes beyond lost code. Deployments pipeline stops, security patches can't be pushed. Everything that depends on that pipeline is affected until you recover. What's new this quarter is Rubrik's managed model. At launch, the solution only ran on customer managed infrastructure. It worked, but it added overhead. The managed model completely removes that entirely. Rubrik handles the back end fully with nothing provisioned, patched, or maintained at your end. Set a policy and your repositories are protected. Order discovery works immediately. A new repo is protected from the moment it's created with no manual onboarding required. And recovery is flexible enough to restore into a new project, organization, or tenant, which is exactly what you need for a proper Doctor scenario. For platform and DevOps teams already managing busy environments, this brings DevOps protection in line with the simplicity of protecting any other workload available today. Prioritized recovery is one I wanna spend a bit of time on because it addresses a gap in the industry that hasn't been really talked about. A lot of tension goes into backup. Speed, scale, petabytes protected. But when an incident happens, that metric is actually measured in recovery speed. And those two numbers are the same. We work with customers all the time. Customers who protect eight petabytes of data in eight hours but then find out their recovery time is fourteen days. The gap is real business impact. The reason native to a struggle here is straightforward. They restore data in order it was stored, not the order the business actually needs it. There's no mechanism to say recover the last thirty days first or prioritize application data. Everything comes back sequentially regardless of urgency. Prioritized recovery changes that. You define what gets restored first, like date range or prefix or bucket tag. Before committing to a restore, you can see the estimated recovery time upfront. No surprises during an active incident and it works with our existing Rubrik snapshots so there's no new tooling, no replication, no changes to your account setup. The teams running data lakes, lake houses, AI and more workloads running on s three or Azure blob, this is particularly relevant. If ransomware hits and you need to recover last month's training data, you can now do that directly. Recovery follows your business priorities, not storage order. This is now generally available for both Amazon s three and Azure Blob. Finally, multiple archive locations. The principle behind this one is straightforward. A single backup location is no longer sufficient. Ransomware, regional outages, compliance mandates, all point to the same requirement. Your data needs to exist in more than one place. The three two one standard exists for a good reason, but enforcing it consistently across cloud workloads has become more of a requirement. Rubik now lets you send backup copies to multiple regions and storages simultaneously all within a single ex late policy. The cloud VMs on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, selective frequency lets you archive to either hot storage for fast recovery or other tiers for longer term retention for cold storage. For unstructured data, s three or Azure Blob, all schedules replicate to two locations automatically. Three two one coverage enforced in a policy. Three outcomes. Your data exists in multiple locations before an incident occurs, so regional outage won't take you down. Long term storage costs come down as auto backups can move to cheaper tiered storage automatically, and three two one compliance is met through a single policy rather than a set of separate manual workflows. That's the cloud track of this quarter. Five features all generally available now. Broader database coverage across Google Cloud and AWS, GitHub, and Azure DevOps protection with zero infrastructure overhead. And two capabilities that directly close the gap between how fast you can back up and how fast you can actually recover. Every one of these came directly from customer conversations. Teams being forced to choose between class equal Doctor and cyber resilience. Teams discovering mid incident that recovery is gonna take two two weeks. Teams managing repositories with no real protection strategy. If any of these resonate with something you're dealing with, reach out to Rubrik and we can figure out how we can help you. Thanks for your time. Awesome. Thanks so much, Simon. Really great, update. Now, before we let you go, I I did wanna call out something that I don't think you're gonna wanna miss, and that is the Rubik Afford user conference. It's happening June 8 in Las Vegas. And it's not your typical conference. It's a high impact, hands on event where you can get real world insights, from of some of the industry experts as well as the Rubrik product team. And so if you wanna sharpen your cyber attack response, cut cloud costs, or, you know, maybe even troubleshoot challenges face to face, this is the place to be. I highly recommend checking out the Ford website to learn more and, you know, see if, it's something you or your team, can make. It's a great way to, level up your cyber resilience in 2026. And now, we're opening the floor for all your questions. Jeff, the leader of our technical marketing team is here, with his team, and they're sure to answer your questions live. So please drop your questions in the chat and, we'll try to get to them.