Let’s be honest, modernization is a bit of a double-edged sword.
On one side, you’ve got the magic of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. The technology helps you break down silos, run your legacy VMs right alongside your shiny new containers, and move faster than ever. But on the other side, you’re handing a much larger, more complex attack surface to cybercriminals.
A critical question often gets overlooked in the rush to go live: when you move your workloads to this new state-of-the-art new platform, are you bringing the old platform’s problems with you?
Here’s how Rubrik can help you modernize to OpenShift and leave those legacy threats behind.
Unified Security Posture Built on Zero Trust
The biggest risk during any migration is fragmentation. You have legacy VMs in one place and new containers in another, often managed by different tools. This creates security blind spots.
Rubrik can help you establish a unified security posture from Day One by protecting container workloads and VMs from a single interface. We also address the infrastructure layer by utilizing Multus CNI support. This allows us to use dedicated secondary network interfaces to isolate backup traffic, preventing your management operations from interfering with critical application performance or opening unnecessary security gaps.
If you combine these features with logically air-gapped immutable backups that can't be deleted—even by an administrator—then you can confidently deploy Openshift on a Zero Trust foundation.
Advanced Threat Analytics
Most people treat migration as a move of bits and bytes. But what if those bytes contain hidden risks? You don't want to modernize your platform only to find out you've moved a dormant security issue along with your other data.
Advanced threat analytics can look deep into your backup metadata, helping you:
Identify Anomalies by analyzing metadata for unusual activity (like abnormal or mass changes and deletions) to spot potential malware activity.
Locate High-Risk Data using sensitive data discovery to automatically gain visibility into your data to identify PII and other sensitive info. This lets you apply the right protections immediately during the move.
Find Hidden Threats by continuously analyzing files for Indicators of Compromise (IoCs). This allows us to detect latent malware early, ensuring the data you are moving to OpenShift is healthy and tamper-free.
Flexible & Rapid Recovery
Even with the best planning, modernization can have hiccups. Resilience isn't just about stopping an attack; it's about getting back to work fast if something goes sideways.
Rubrik provides flexible and rapid recovery options designed to achieve near-zero RTOs. Whether you need to recover a specific Kubernetes resource or an entire cluster, we can enable surgical recovery with:
Live Mount for VMs that instantly mount VM backups via NFS shares on Rubrik storage, giving you rapid data access without waiting for a full data copy.
Granular Visibility that allows you to browse snapshot contents to view specific resource objects and their YAML configurations, so you can bring back exactly what you need.
Cross-Cluster Flexibility that can restore your OpenShift resources to entirely different clusters or environments for testing or disaster recovery if your primary environment is compromised.
The Goal: Move Fast, Stay Secure
Modernization shouldn't feel like a gamble. You should be able to embrace Red Hat OpenShift, automate your workflows, and refactor your apps with total confidence.
When you build your journey on a foundation of cyber resilience, you aren't just moving to a new platform—you’re building an unstoppable business.
If you are attending the Red Hat Summit, let's chat about your modernization strategy. Visit us at the booth #333 and join us at our theater session - Modernize to OpenShift. Leave Threats Behind.
We'd love to show you a demo of how these analytics work in real-time and help you make sure your modernization journey is a safe one.
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