Nevada’s Largest Healthcare Provider Achieves 86% Reduction in RTO, Enhances Identity Protection & Recovery With Rubrik
In a ransomware scenario, authentication is everything. Without it, nothing else matters. Rubrik Identity Recovery gives us the confidence that we can rapidly restore our entire Active Directory infrastructure, enabling us to bring critical applications back online without paying a ransom or risking reinfection.
Steven Ramirez
Chief Information Security Officer, Renown Health![]()
CHALLENGES
As Nevada’s largest healthcare provider, serving over one million patients, Renown Health wanted to protect their investments in innovation and technology to ensure they support their modern patient care and communities needs.
OUTCOMES
With Rubrik, Renown Health realized:
A Paradigm Shift in Healthcare
Renown Health understood that the healthcare landscape had undergone a paradigm shift following the Affordable Care Act in 2010, creating an imperative for high availability of their systems and data along with robust recovery capabilities. Renown’s CISO Steven Ramirez emphasized the importance of preparing for the full spectrum of cyberattacks, which have become increasingly prevalent in healthcare.
“Through tabletop exercises, we identified critical Tier Zero clinical services that need to be operational within 12 hours of an incident. With Rubrik, we established the essential requirements for clean, immutable backups and orchestrated recovery capabilities to facilitate quick restoration of trust during incidents, ensuring a malware-free environment that avoids reinfection,” noted Ramirez.
TRANSFORMATION WITH RUBRIK
Comprehensive Cyber Resilience for Tier Zero Applications
Healthcare is a prime target for cybercriminals, with 93% of organizations experiencing an identity incident within the past year. A compromise to the ubiquitous AD or Entra ID wouldcripple business operations and halt patient care.
With their focus on protecting AD, Renown Health implemented Rubrik Identity Recovery to cut AD recovery time from 24 hours to under 3 hours, ensuring comprehensive, orchestrated recovery.
Rubrik’s comprehensive Identity Recovery solution enabled Renown Health to improve their identity security posture, and the simultaneous restoration of compromised on-prem AD and cloud-based Entra ID, ensuring these interconnected systems are restored in tandem. By leveraging malware-free and clean room recovery processes, Rubrik ensures a clean, uncompromised restoration, accelerating hybrid recovery from days or weeks to hours, and drastically reducing the risk of reinfection after an incident. Moreover, using the unified Rubrik platform allows for vendor and tool consolidation as well as audit and compliance readiness.
Since successfully deploying Rubrik Identity Recovery across the enterprise in one day, RenownHealth strengthened their identity security posture and were positioned as a leader in holistic, automated, and secure recovery across both on-premise and cloud identity systems. As they continue to navigate the complexities of modern healthcare challenges, their investment in Rubrik provides the foundation for cyber resilience, ensuring patient data remains secure and identity integrity is maintained with zero-trust security.
Threat actors know that compromising domain controllers gives them the keys to the kingdom. With Rubrik Identity Recovery, we can restore AD to a clean, point-in-time state within hours—not days—ensuring authentication remains intact even during the most severe incidents. That level of precision and security is what sets Rubrik apart and what gives our leadership team confidence in our cyber resilience posture.
Steven Ramirez
Chief Information Security Officer, Renown Health![]()