The geopolitical landscape is rapidly evolving. Trade tensions are rising. Alliances are shifting. Data access is being weaponized. To keep pace, regulatory frameworks worldwide are evolving at unprecedented speed, from Europe's operational resilience requirements to data localization mandates in the Middle East and emerging sovereignty laws in the Americas.
These forces have transformed data sovereignty from a compliance checkbox into a strategic imperative. Now, organizations face a critical question: How do you maintain control over your most sensitive data while still leveraging modern capabilities to defend against sophisticated threats?
The answer lies not just in where your data sits, but in who truly controls it. That’s why we're announcing Rubrik Security Cloud Sovereign with new capabilities that give our customers the agility to adapt to increasingly complex data sovereignty demands.
Why Control Is the Foundation of Resilience
With geopolitical situations and regional data residency mandates rapidly evolving, organizations that lack complete control over their data and infrastructure find themselves at risk. True resilience begins with establishing unwavering control across every dimension of your data environment.
Organizations need sovereignty solutions that deliver:
Operational control: The authority to determine exactly where and how your data is managed, processed, and protected—without relying on external entities or foreign jurisdictions that could compromise your autonomy.
Jurisdictional control: The certainty that your data, metadata, and all operations remain under your chosen legal framework, eliminating exposure to foreign regulations or government access requests.
Architectural control: The independence to make technology decisions based solely on your requirements and risk tolerance, free from constraints imposed by vendor ecosystems or hyperscaler dependencies.
Recovery control: The assurance that you can restore operations on your terms, using your infrastructure, without dependencies on external services that may be unavailable, compromised, or subject to geopolitical pressures during a crisis.
Control doesn't mean rigidity. It means having the foundation to adapt to your requirements on your timeline, rather than being forced to react to circumstances dictated by vendor limitations, international tensions, or regulatory changes that affect your infrastructure providers.
The Challenge of Achieving Complete Cyber Resilience Under Sovereign Constraints
Sovereignty and security must work in concert, not in opposition. Yet many organizations are forced to compromise one for the other.
Consider the challenge of immutable backup protection. In an era where ransomware operators specifically target backup infrastructure and sophisticated adversaries spend months establishing persistence before launching attacks, organizations need complete confidence that protected data remains recoverable, even when primary infrastructure is compromised. This requires immutability at multiple layers: physical controls that prevent tampering, logical isolation that maintains integrity even during an active attack, and architectural designs that ensure threat actors cannot leverage elevated privileges to corrupt backup data.
For sovereign deployments, this becomes more complex. Solutions must deliver enterprise-grade protection while operating entirely within designated boundaries—with no dependencies on external infrastructure that might not meet data residency requirements.
Similarly, threat detection capabilities must function within sovereign constraints. Threat detection shouldn't require sending telemetry to foreign data centers or relying on public cloud-based processing that compromises data sovereignty.
In our ever-evolving geopolitical environment, organizations need a solution that provides complete control over data while giving them the ability to be resilient against increasing cyber threats.
Rubrik's Commitment: Sovereignty Without Compromise
Based on what we're hearing from customers worldwide, Rubrik is committed to providing complete data control, while helping customers maintain the flexibility to adapt to evolving cyber resilience needs.
That’s why we’re addressing this need. Rubrik Security Cloud Sovereign was designed to meet the full spectrum of sovereignty requirements:
Complete data sovereignty: All components (data, metadata, control plane, and management) operate within your designated boundaries. Everything remains under your chosen jurisdiction with no dependencies on foreign infrastructure or support personnel.
Immutable protection for critical data types: Advanced capabilities for protecting and recovering workloads, across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments with immutability that prevents encryption, deletion, or alteration even when adversaries gain elevated access.
Sovereign-compatible threat detection: Sophisticated analytics, turbo threat hunting, and automated anomaly identification that operate entirely within your environment, providing advanced protection without compromising data sovereignty.
Multiple Deployment Options: Flexible deployment options—either on premises or sovereign cloud—that ensure resilience and continuity while maintaining complete jurisdictional control.
These enhancements reflect a fundamental principle: organizations shouldn't have to choose between sovereignty, security, and operational efficiency. Modern architecture should deliver all three.
Looking Forward: Our Commitment
As customer needs continue to evolve, we're committed to expanding deployment flexibility while maintaining our core focus on customer control and autonomy. We will provide an unwavering commitment to data sovereignty and operational control and will continue to invest in functionality to address this need, with additional deployment flexibility and support coming soon.
The question facing organizations today isn't whether to prioritize data sovereignty. It's how to achieve it without sacrificing the capabilities needed to defend against modern threats and maintain operational efficiency.
The answer lies in solutions that provide:
Complete control over data and operations
Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements
Independence from vendor ecosystems that constrain strategic options
Consistent security and resilience across diverse environments
At Rubrik, we partner closely with our customers to understand their evolving needs. What we hear consistently is that sovereignty requirements are accelerating, that flexibility is essential, and that organizations need partners who prioritize customer autonomy over vendor lock-in.
The announcement of Rubrik Security Cloud Sovereign reflects this understanding. It's designed to give you complete control, enable strategic flexibility, and deliver end-to-end cyber resilience, all while ensuring your data and metadata remain under your authority.
Rubrik Security Cloud Sovereign is now available in early access for select customers. Reach out to register your interest by filling out this form.
Learn more about how Rubrik can support your data sovereignty requirements while delivering comprehensive cyber resilience across any environment.
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