RUBRIK
“ WE ' RE ABLE TO HELP CUSTOMERS RECOVER VERY QUICKLY AND GET THEM BACK ONLINE IN MINUTES , HOURS , OR DAYS WHEN HISTORICALLY THEY ' VE BEEN DOWN FOR WEEKS AND MONTHS ”
JEFFREY PHELAN CTO , RUBRIK
that ' s really protecting organisations against these breaches ,” says Phelan . “ We ' re able to help customers recover very quickly and get them back online in minutes , hours , or days when historically they ' ve been down for weeks and months .”
According to Phelan , data protection has always been Rubrik ’ s “ bread and butter ,” but an ongoing attentiveness to organisations ’ resiliency needs , particularly in light of the
Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in May 2021 , has rapidly increased the market ’ s focus on Rubrik ’ s security and resiliency value . As such , Rubrik ’ s ransomware capabilities are fostering stronger bonds between historically disparate enterprise teams , particularly the network security teams and infrastructure teams . With reliability , resilience , and accessibility standing as common goals for both , Phelan anticipates that Rubrik will be increasingly included in security conversations to help reconcile what are sometimes competing priorities . “ Our capability is really about providing a great rally point for CISOs , CIOs , management and the Board to find common ground . We can add resilience , and we can work to create what I would refer to as a ‘ moving defence ’ at the infrastructure level so that customers can adapt much more rapidly to attacks .”
Looking ahead , Phelan anticipates that continued migration of data from physical locations to the cloud will prompt stakeholders and regulators to demand that important information is meeting more stringent security requirements than is natively provided by commercial clouds , and as such , demand for a ‘ single pane of glass ’ to manage data globally will quickly become the norm . In fact , current trends suggest that operational change following COVID-19 is no longer an option . It ’ s the only option . The strategic value of data and the security required to safeguard it have become
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