For most enterprises, Microsoft Entra ID sits at the center of everything: every login, every application, every piece of data that matters. But when attackers corrupt the infrastructure enforcing identity, (Global Admin roles, Conditional Access policies, synchronization connectors) your detection tools become useless.
You're not just breached. You've lost your control plane. Rubrik Identity Recovery changes that. We deliver recovery time objectives in hours instead of weeks, restoring your entire hybrid identity fabric with verified integrity.
Why the Identity Control Plane Is Your Largest Operational Risk
Hybrid identity architectures built on Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta deliver convenience. They also create interdependence where one compromise cascades everywhere.
Here's how it plays out:
Hybrid sync reinfection: A backdoored Entra Connect server quietly re-introduces malicious changes from AD into Entra ID.
Privilege escalation: A stolen Global Admin credential disables MFA and wipes Conditional Access policies.
Configuration corruption and non-human identity theft: Attackers increasingly target Service Principals, the non-human identities powering app-to-app authentication. They steal or clone these principals, manipulate OAuth permissions, create rogue app registrations, and persist undetected under forged identities.
Directory disruption or ransomware: Corruption or encryption of identity data halts authentication enterprise-wide.
These events cripple operations. Manual rebuilds take days or weeks. Rubrik turns that chaos into a controlled, auditable recovery process.
Solving the Hybrid Identity Cascade Problem
Most enterprises live inside a tangled identity web: AD on-prem, Entra ID in the cloud, Okta managing SaaS access. A compromise anywhere spreads everywhere.
Rubrik Identity Recovery breaks the reinfection loop, using immutable, orchestrated, hybrid-aware recovery for the entire Entra ID control plane. This allows you to restore AD and Entra ID to a clean, verified state, allowing downstream identity providers to safely re-sync.
Here’s how that’s done:
Immutable, Verified Recovery Points: Rubrik captures the entire Entra ID control plane—users and groups, Conditional Access policies and administrative units, app registrations and enterprise applications (Service Principals)—with full metadata and the relationships and trust mappings that make hybrid synchronization work.
Snapshots live in a Rubrik-managed, logically air-gapped Azure tenant, completely isolated from your production directory. Each snapshot is WORM-sealed (Write Once, Read Many) and cryptographically signed for tamper-proof integrity. Rubrik continuously validates snapshots against known-good baselines, detecting anomalies such as unauthorized policy deletions or privilege escalations before marking a snapshot clean. This process minimizes the risk of restoring from a compromised baseline.
Note: Secrets and certificates for Service Principals are never stored in cleartext. Rubrik restores configurations and relationships while prompting you to re-issue credentials—guaranteeing both fidelity and freshness.
Coordinated Hybrid Recovery: Rubrik automates the complete rebuild sequence. First, it recovers user and group objects in Active Directory, then allows Entra Connect or Cloud Sync reprovision clean objects into Entra ID. Then it automatically restores Entra-specific attributes, memberships, and Conditional Access mappings from Rubrik's immutable backup.
Surgical Rollback and Forensic Audit: Not every incident requires a full rebuild. Rubrik enables object-level rollback, restoring just the affected users, groups, or policies to a known-good state and leaving legitimate changes untouched.
Every operation produces a forensic, immutable audit trail: what was restored, when, and by whom. That audit record satisfies regulatory reporting (SEC, GDPR, DORA) and provides verifiable proof of due care—protecting both your enterprise and your executives from post-incident liability.
Orchestrated Automation, Minimal Overhead: This isn't another console to monitor. It's a lights-out recovery assurance layer.
Policy-driven orchestration removes human intervention from the most complex, high-stress stage of an incident. Your Tier-3 engineers focus on threat-hunting and containment, not directory rebuilds.
Field-Proven Results
The outcomes speak for themselves: Field deployments show RTO reductions of roughly 80%, with full directory restoration completed in hours rather than days.
For example, a large U.S. healthcare system (8,000 employees, 1 million patients) implemented Rubrik Identity Recovery after repeated ransomware simulations revealed identity as their greatest single point of failure.
They reduced RTO by 86%, from 24 hours to under 3 hours. Full deployment took one day, with a validated recovery drill completed in the first week. Same-shift restoration during live incidents eliminated the extended downtime that once jeopardized patient safety. And they lowered their cyber-insurance premiums after demonstrating measurable resilience.
This kind of success translates into real savings for the business. Based on an industry-average downtime cost of $5,600 per minute, cutting RTO from five days to four hours avoids roughly $39 million in potential losses, per incident. That’s before counting regulatory penalties or reputational damage.
Rubrik transforms identity resilience from a reactive IT task into a quantifiable business-continuity investment with immediate ROI.
Time to Value: Measured in Days, Not Quarters
Rubrik's Entra ID Recovery can be fully deployed and operational in one day. Most enterprises validate their first clean recovery run within the first month, closing a critical cyber-liability gap before the next board meeting.
Training requirements are minimal. Rubrik's orchestration handles the complex sequencing, so your existing identity teams can operate it confidently.
Secure Identity is an Essential Element of Cyber Resilience
When the identity control plane falls, prevention stops working. Every hour saved can be a million-dollar decision—or a million-dollar liability. With Rubrik, you can recover the control plane in a matter of hours by bringing Active Directory and Entra ID recovery into one workflow. Rubrik delivers measurable cyber resilience across your entire identity infrastructure—and creates a clean foundation that downstream providers like Okta can safely sync to.
Identity resilience means:
Immutable, air-gapped recovery of the entire Entra ID control plane
Verified hybrid trust restoration across AD
Auditable evidence of clean state for regulators and insurers
RTO reduction from days to hours
Deployment and validation in weeks, not years
Not sure where to start? Use our Identity Recovery Checklist to map out every step of a clean, verified recovery. It outlines how to respond when hybrid AD + Entra ID are compromised and how to turn a multi-week recovery into a repeatable, hour-scale process.
Request a demo to see how Rubrik delivers Entra ID RTOs in hours, not weeks, and anchors the trust of your hybrid identity fabric.