As organizations accelerate their digital transformation, the reliance on cloud platforms grows—but so does the sophistication and frequency of cyber threats. With a staggering 94% of cloud tenants targeted by cyberattacks last year and 62% successfully compromised, the challenge of maintaining business continuity in the face of advanced threats has never been more critical.
The stark reality is that traditional backup and recovery solutions—often designed for natural disasters or hardware failures—are ill-equipped for the nuanced cyber threats targeting today's cloud environments. Many organizations discover this gap only after an incident. They may face an average of 21 days of downtime, with costs and regulatory fines potentially soaring to $300,000 per hour, not to mention reputational damage. It's clear that a new, proactive approach is needed to ensure business continuity for your vital cloud workloads.
Building on our deep expertise in cloud data protection, Rubrik is excited to announce the expansion of our orchestrated recovery capabilities with Cyber Recovery for Azure, initially launching for Azure VMs. This powerful solution gives IT and Security teams the tools they need to confidently protect their business-critical applications, with reliable, clean, and orchestrated recovery at scale while minimizing downtime.
The Mounting Challenge of Cyber Recovery in the Cloud
As organizations lean more heavily on cloud services, they encounter significant hurdles in achieving true cyber preparedness:
Unreliable and Untested Recovery Processes: Many enterprises operate with recovery plans that are rarely validated. The operational complexity of testing, coupled with the desire to limit impact to production, often deters IT teams from fully vetting their recovery processes. This gap can lead to a false sense of security and critically limits the ability to confidently prove recoverability to leadership or auditors—an increasingly essential requirement in light of regulations like DORA and NIS2.
Limited (or No) Forensic Investigation Support: In the aftermath of an attack, identifying a clean recovery point is paramount in ensuring successful recovery. Traditional solutions often lack native threat detection, forcing teams into dangerous guesswork or reliance on additional tools. This complexity in conducting forensic investigation not only risks reinfection but also significantly prolongs downtime.
Manual and Complex Recovery Operations: During a cyber crisis, every second counts. Yet recovery is frequently hampered by manual and slow processes. Under this immense pressure, teams may make rash decisions that increase the risk of critical errors and significantly inflate business downtime, jeopardizing RTOs.
Introducing Rubrik’s Cyber Recovery for Azure VMs
Rubrik’s Cyber Recovery addresses these challenges with an integrated solution that streamlines the entire cyber recovery lifecycle. Our initial launch focuses on Azure VMs, extending the robust, enterprise-grade recovery orchestration to your most critical cloud workloads in Azure.
Now, organizations can move beyond reactive recovery to proactive cyber resilience, protecting your data and your business, even in the face of sophisticated attacks.
Here’s how Rubrik Cyber Recovery helps you take control:
Cyber Recovery Planning, Testing and Validation: With Rubrik, you can easily define recovery plans for Azure VMs, specifying parameters such as boot order priorities and destination network configurations. You can then simulate your cyber recovery plans by cloning backup data to isolated environments. Here, you can easily test and validate the success of your recovery plans—from individual VMs to mass recovery—without impacting production systems. This promotes proactive cyber preparedness with reliable, thoroughly vetted recovery processes, all while minimizing operational overhead.
Integrated Threat Hunting and Forensic Investigation: Rubrik provides integrated Data Threat Analytics to enable quick incident response and identification of clean recovery points. Rubrik’s Anomaly Detection leverages machine learning for swift identification of ransomware and its blast radius, while Threat Monitoring proactively scans your backups for known threats to help you restore clean data.
For more targeted searches, on-demand Turbo Threat Hunting can scan 75,000 backups in 60 seconds using pre-computed file hashes. Leveraging results from these scans, you can select snapshots for recovery or further investigation, if required. This significantly reduces overall downtime and risk of reinfection, fundamentally streamlining your incident response and overall recovery process.
Recovery Orchestration at Scale: With Rubrik, you can execute pre-validated recovery plans and ad-hoc cyber recovery with just a few clicks. You can orchestrate the recovery of Azure VMs to an alternate subscription or tenant. To enable the fastest possible recovery, Rubrik intelligently selects the optimal data source, choosing between local VM snapshots or customer-managed archive locations. The solution also provides robust controls like Lock Recovery (to prevent changes to an active recovery process) and Clean Up Recovery (to automate the removal of resources created during testing). These orchestration capabilities reduce manual effort and accelerate critical recovery operations for your cloud workloads.
Comprehensive Recovery Reporting: Rubrik provides real-time monitoring of recovery operations and generates detailed post-execution reports. A centralized dashboard allows you to monitor key outcomes (such as execution time), check the status of validation scripts, and download on-demand reports detailing recovery performance. With such comprehensive visibility and documentation, you can meet audit and compliance requirements under regulations like DORA and NIS2 and demonstrate robustness in your cyber recovery capabilities.
Ready to Elevate Your Cloud Cyber Resilience?
Rubrik Cyber Recovery for Azure VMs delivers the simplicity, intelligence, and control you need to confidently prepare for, respond to, and orchestrate recovery from cyber threats and operational disruptions.
This launch for Azure VMs is a significant step in our broader strategy to deliver comprehensive orchestrated recovery across your critical cloud estate. Rubrik is actively developing support to extend these powerful capabilities to AWS as well as expand coverage to PaaS databases and unstructured data. Our vision is to provide a unified cyber resilience solution, ensuring you can rapidly and reliably recover your essential cloud applications and data, wherever they reside.
Learn more about how Rubrik can help you secure your cloud workloads and enhance your cyber resilience.
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