If your board of directors wants to know how fast your business can recover from a cyberattack, do you have a confident answer?
Or would you find yourself explaining that your legacy backup solution won't cut it when sophisticated attackers compromise your environment?
Research from Rubrik Zero Labs reveals a stark reality: 90% of organizations experienced a cyberattack last year, with 74% reporting that attackers successfully breached their backup systems. The uncomfortable truth: despite your investments in next-generation firewalls, endpoint protection, and security training, your business is still vulnerable.
You can't prevent the unpreventable. So the only thing that matters is how quickly you can recover. Rubrik Preemptive Recovery Engine capitalizes on Rubrik’s fundamental architectural advantage, delivering cyber resilience that has helped our customers achieve cyber recovery times up to 100 times faster than traditional solutions.
The Shift from Prevention to “Assume Breach”
For decades, the cybersecurity industry has pursued the elusive goal of perfect prevention. More tools, more alerts, more complexity—yet breaches continue to increase.
It's time to embrace a different mindset: assume breach.
This doesn't mean abandoning your security investments. It means recognizing that when—not if—attackers penetrate your defenses, your organization's survival depends on one critical capability: achieving the fastest cyber recovery time objective (RTO) possible.
Consider your potential worst-case scenarios with traditional recovery approaches:
Manually mounting and scanning terabytes of backup data to identify malware
Performing forensic analysis across dozens of disparate systems
Attempting to reconcile fragmented metadata from siloed backup repositories
Slowly rehydrating full backups just to inspect file integrity
Slogging through as many as 22 manual steps to recover domain controllers
While you're navigating this process, your business is hemorrhaging revenue, customer trust, and competitive edge.
Why Traditional Approaches Fall Short
The fundamental problem with legacy backup and recovery architectures is that they were designed for environmental disasters (fires, floods, hardware failures, etc.), not adversarial attacks. When ransomware encrypts your production systems, you face questions that traditional backup systems simply can't answer quickly:
Which backup copies are clean and which contain dormant malware?
When did the attack actually begin across your hybrid environment?
What's the optimal recovery sequence to minimize business disruption?
Has sensitive data been compromised, and what are your regulatory obligations?
Traditional solutions force you to answer these questions during the crisis, when every minute of delay compounds your losses. This reactive approach creates a critical bottleneck that neither infrastructure nor manual effort can overcome.
What if you could answer those critical questions before the attack happens? What if your recovery strategy began working the moment you created your first backup?
This is exactly what Rubrik Preemptive Recovery Engine delivers, shifting security strategy away from reactive recovery to proactive preparation. Instead of scrambling to analyze compromised data during a crisis, Rubrik Preemptive Recovery Engine continuously performs the heavy lifting of threat analysis, metadata intelligence, and recovery planning as part of normal operations.
How Preemptive Recovery Works
Here are the features of Rubrik Preemptive Recovery Engine that can transform your recovery capabilities:
Continuous Automatic Scanning: Our platform automatically scans backups across your on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, with no manual intervention required. This isn't scheduled scanning—it's continuous, inline threat detection that happens as your backups are created.
Pre-Computed Intelligence: We utilize advanced hashing techniques and time-series intelligence to create a comprehensive metadata layer, enabling the identification of clean recovery points. Our Turbo Threat Hunting capability can scan 75,000 backup snapshots in 60 seconds, compared to 50 days or more with traditional approaches.
Native Threat Detection: Unlike vendors who bolt on third-party security tools, our threat scanning capabilities are natively integrated into the platform. In addition to our own Native Data Threat Analytics and Data Security Posture Management, we partnered with Mandiant to incorporate real-time threat intelligence directly into our analysis engine, adding trusted protection against the latest attack vectors.
End-to-End Recovery Orchestration: Our platform doesn't just identify clean data—it orchestrates the recovery process with automated quarantining, dependency mapping, and application-aware restoration sequences.
Unified Identity and Data Intelligence: We've expanded beyond data protection to include identity resilience, recognizing that 80% of cyberattacks involve compromised credentials. Our Identity Recovery capabilities simplify Active Directory restoration, reducing the complex process from 22 manual steps to a straightforward 5-step wizard.
The Business Impact of Architectural Transformation
Rubrik Preemptive Recovery Engine isn't just about faster backups—it's about transforming your organization's ability to survive and thrive despite inevitable attacks. When you can confidently answer your board's questions about recovery capabilities, you're not just protecting data; you're protecting your business continuity, customer relationships, and competitive position.
Consider these benefits:
Reduced Financial Impact: Minimize the substantial costs of extended downtime by completing recovery in as little as hours instead of weeks
Enhanced Crisis Management: Provide definitive answers to critical business questions during incidents
Simplified Compliance: Better visibility into affected systems helps you provide precise regulatory assessments
Preserved Customer Trust: Faster recovery means less disruption to customer-facing services
Why Rubrik's Unified Platform Architecture Matters
Competitors may eventually claim similar individual capabilities, but they're building on legacy architectures that weren't designed for today’s assume breach reality. Their solutions often require multiple third-party integrations, separate infrastructure deployments, and manual correlation across disconnected tools.
The Rubrik advantage lies in our unified platform architecture that natively integrates these capabilities across all environments. This architectural foundation enables us to continuously evolve and add new capabilities, such as Rubrik Identity Recovery, which seamlessly integrates with existing protections.
When you're facing a sophisticated cyberattack, you don't have time to orchestrate recovery across multiple vendors, tools, and interfaces. You need a single platform that understands the relationships between your data, applications, and identities—and can act on that intelligence immediately.
Your Next Steps Toward Cyber Resilience
Your business continuity depends on more than hoping attacks won't succeed. It depends on being ready to recover faster than your attackers can adapt. The time to prepare is now—before you need it most.
As one CISO from a global financial institution recently told us, "Prevention will always have gaps. My board doesn't ask if we'll be attacked anymore—they ask how quickly we can recover."
With Rubrik Preemptive Recovery Engine, you can provide a confident answer to that question, delivering your fastest Cyber RTO by doing the critical work before you need it most.
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