Over the last decade, Google Workspace has evolved from a simple productivity suite into a high-velocity, AI-first enterprise operating system. For the modern enterprise, Google Workspace isn't just where work happens—it's where the business lives.
As the platform becomes the heartbeat of modern collaboration, it has also become a primary target for sophisticated cyber threats. Increasingly, these complex environments pose a challenge for IT and security teams to protect. In an era where 90% of organizations have experienced a cyberattack within the last year, security is about more than just keeping data safe.
It’s also about how fast you can get back to work.
Traditional approaches that prioritize long-term archiving over rapid resilience are no longer sufficient. Archiving is a compliance tool, but it is not a recovery strategy. That’s why today, Rubrik is excited to announce an end-to-end cyber resilience platform for Google Workspace, delivering active operational recovery to help you maintain a minimum viable business—even in the face of significant cyber threats.
Data Resilience: From Passive Archiving to Active Operational Recovery
While native tools are excellent for day-to-day management, relying solely on a primary tenant creates a "shared fate" risk. If a primary environment is compromised or a malicious admin takes action, your backups within that same ecosystem are vulnerable.
Furthermore, the pressure on security teams is intensifying as the window for exploiting new vulnerabilities has collapsed—shrinking from an average of 32 days to just 5. In this high-velocity environment, recovery must be near-instant.
Rubrik enables recovery at this pace through:
Logical Air-Gap Protection: We provide immutable, air-gapped backups for Gmail and Google Drive that are isolated from the primary Google tenant, ensuring data survives even a total environment lockout.
High-Fidelity, Rapid Recovery: Instead of manual, destructive restores that strip away permissions, Rubrik provides 100% fidelity. We restore data in-place with all folder hierarchies and Access Control Lists (ACLs) perfectly intact.
Automated, Policy-Driven SLAs: We replace manual management with automated SLA policies, allowing organizations to assign retention tiers across different organizational units to meet strict RPO and RTO requirements.
Seamless Continuity: Whether it’s an accidental deletion or a malicious admin wipe, our point-and-click experience slashes recovery times from days of manual reconstruction to just minutes.
Securing The Data From New Identity and AI Threats
Modern enterprise security must align with your critical data, the identities that control it, and the AI agents that interact with it.
Indeed, data security is inseparable from identity. A compromise of a Google Super Admin or Okta account is a direct threat to your entire data estate. Rubrik secures these mission-critical roles by providing air-gapped backups of identity configurations. This prevents total environment lockouts and ensures security teams can regain control even if primary credentials are hijacked.
The emergence of AI agents poses a similar risk. As Google Drive and Gmail evolve into the "brain" for your enterprise AI agents, the risk of data corruption now scales at machine speed. As AI agents operate autonomously, a single logic error can trigger a massive operational mess—corrupting or misclassifying thousands of files in seconds.
Rubrik protects against agent errors, providing a precise "undo" button for autonomous mistakes. This allows IT teams to surgically remediate agent-driven errors and restore data to its last known good state, ensuring that your business remains intact without the need for full-system rollbacks.
The Rubrik Dividend: Why End-to-End Cyber Resilience Matters
The market is flooded with point solutions that solve only one piece of the puzzle. You might have one tool for archiving, another for identity, and nothing for AI security. This fragmentation creates a forensic nightmare when an attack occurs, forcing teams to manually stitch together data and permissions across siloed tools.
Rubrik is different. We bridge the gap between your data, the identity systems that control it, and the AI agents that interact with it.
This convergence is the "Rubrik Dividend": the measurable gain in operational velocity you can achieve when you transition from manual to automated flow. While the traditional path relies on a "wait and hope" strategy—involving fragmented eDiscovery and destructive restores that take days to rebuild—Rubrik focuses on restoring your minimum viable business first. We offer a high-fidelity, point-and-click experience that helps slash recovery timelines from days of forensic nightmares to minutes of cloud-speed restoration.
We don't just give you a pile of data—we give you your business back, exactly as it was.
The Reset Button for Google Workspace
The traditional path to business recovery—restoring everything as fast as possible—is no longer the best way forward for the modern enterprise. In the age of petabyte-scale SaaS environments and collapsing threat windows, brute force restoration is a forensic nightmare. You don't need a pile of files; you need a strategy to restore your minimum viable business and resume operations immediately.
Google is excellent at keeping the lights on, but they aren't in the business of undoing your worst day. Rubrik is.
Rubrik can reconcile the security gaps among your data, identity, and AI with the ultimate reset button for your enterprise. When the worst happens, you aren't stuck watching a progress bar—you get your business back in a matter of minutes.
Don't leave your recovery to chance. Secure Google Workspace with end-to-end cyber resilience that protects your data, identity, and AI. Learn how.