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- Hi folks, my name is Vamshi Kommineni,
I'm a group product manager for Azure Object Storage.
I'd like to welcome Vasu Murthy from Rubrik.
Welcome Vasu.
- Thanks Vamshi, it's great to be here.
- Yeah, Vasu, for our viewers,
could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
- Certainly.
So I'm Vasu Murthy, I'm VP of products at Rubrik.
Rubrik is your partner for BCDR
and I'm here to talk more about it.
- Great, thank you.
And Rubrik's been a good partner for many years now,
could you tell us a little bit about Rubrik, as well,
for viewers who are not familiar with the company?
- Certainly, Vamshi.
So, Rubrik's mission is to secure world's data,
it's kind of a lofty goal for a company.
About nine years ago our company was founded
with the mission to simplify and automate BCDR
across all data, be in data center,
be it in the cloud or in SaaS.
And our value was to automate it
so customers see 10 to 100x
savings and costs running it.
For example, there is absolutely no jobs to be created
in Rubrik's BCDR environment,
our policies are responsible for managing all workloads,
all data lifecycle,
so single policy can manage your cloud workloads,
SaaS workloads, on-prem workloads,
including replication, including sending data to the cloud
or backup frequencies.
And we've been doing really, really well,
especially working with Microsoft.
- Yeah, that's great Vasu,
and there's some exciting new integrations
between Rubrik and Microsoft's security platform,
do you want to comment on that as well?
- Yes, Vamshi, that's a really exciting area
of innovation for us.
What we learned in the process
of securing a firm ransomware
is a security of teams and customers
are very interested in what is happening in BCDR
and what's happening with data.
So, we recently launched integration with Azure Sentinel
where we send the indications of compromises
directly to Sentinel, and also let security team
have a view of what is going on with the data
to launch investigations in the data
without having to reach out again to BCDR folks.
As a part of this now Rubrik products can actually
drive up security ACR for customers
and we are now a Visa partner as well,
from the security angle,
this is something that we are very excited about.
- Yeah, that's great, Vasu,
you provide the trifecta protection
that our customers are usually looking for.
You mentioned something there
that I wanted to dive into a little bit more,
you said, ransomware and immutability.
Now this is something that of course has been
very top of mind for our customers,
especially over the last couple of years,
and I know Rubrik has put a lot of thought into this
and building especially proactive detection.
and ability to kind of work on these things.
Could you dive a little bit more
into what has been built
and what customers can take advantage
in our platform together?
- Certainly, Vamshi.
So, that's been one of the biggest areas
of innovation for us.
So as we did BCDR, we found out that many of the customers
are recovering from their backups in large scale
due to ransomware attacks and not natural disasters,
and in those situations
recovering is actually very different
from a regular BCDR recovery.
So, we started looking into our customers,
every week we help many customers
of Rubrik recover from ransomware
using immutable backups in Rubrik,
and we learned how they work with their security teams,
how they work for example with Sentinel,
Defender infrastructure that is helping them
protect against ransomware;
and we learned about a few things.
What we learned was in BCDR,
in fact, if you wanted to really ransomware proof
what we call data security,
you need three pillars of functionality
that you see on the screen here.
So, data resilience is about securing your data
from insider threats or ransomware
with air gap immutable access control backups,
which means you want to have your backups
in a way nobody can compromise it,
it's just way more than traditional BCDR.
Number two, continuously monitor your data
and find out data risks,
including maybe a ransomware infiltration,
very sensitive data that has been exposed
and indicators of compromise we constantly find in the data.
And, number three, when you need to
we can surgically recover your apps and files, or users,
from the backup or on an ongoing basis
practice this recovery so when an actual incident happens
it's actually much easier and quicker to recover.
So, our goal is to secure data
across enterprise, SaaS and cloud,
making our customer's business unstoppable.
To double click a little bit more on this,
what capabilities do we need to make that happen?
So, data resilience is about
protecting data and enterprise cloud, and Microsoft 365,
in a way that it's always immutable,
We leverage Azure Blob Immutability
and other features to make them so.
On the data observability
we have features that include
ransomware monitoring and investigation,
sensitive data monitoring and management,
threat monitoring and hunting,
and data security command center.
Many of these indicators compromise
are sent to Azure Sentinel
for security teams to go take a look at,
what they're seeing and what the indicator compromise are.
Plus we have bunch of features on recovering
from ransomware itself,
including orchestrated application recovery
and mass recovery.
Vamshi, I would like to show a quick preview of the product,
one specific feature,
maybe that the viewers may find interesting.
- That sounds great, Vasu.
What you're describing sounds great
and no better thing than to walk through
what the product is capable of, please go ahead.
- So, I want to talk about one feature
called threat hunting.
So, what threat hunting does,
is suppose you suspect that a malware
has infiltrated your environment,
but you don't know when the infiltration has happened
because your tools like defender
can find out where the infiltration occurred,
but often finding out
when the infiltration started is difficult
because you're looking at the logs.
Because Rubrik has all the past snapshots of the data
we can actually go back and run a scan
from a backup there was a month ago,
that gives you an idea of how far back
the infiltration has happened,
it's a very key tool in investigation,
you don't have to recover the backups to do it
so you can do it in place.
So, let me quickly walk you through the product.
So here is our face of the product,
it shows data protection on this side,
this is about data observability,
this is very constantly monitored for ransomware
and also this is the concept for recovery.
If you drill into the ransomware investigation
you go to the investigations page.
In investigations are various searches
that you can make in the backup, in the past,
you can actually go to scans in the past.
Let me click on this investigation called Ransim Search.
The parameters of the Ransim Search are as follows,
so this addresses a specific cluster in Las Vegas,
there are three objects being selected
and we are searching from all the snapshots
from September 28th to now, to yesterday,
and all the files that you want to scan.
And here is a signature
we get from our vulnerable database thing,
this is a signature of a ransomware attack,
let's see how far back it is infiltrated.
That's all you have to do and let it run,
and once it runs it actually comes back with the results,
in the three objects two objects were found
to have been infected,
and looks like 10 snapshots were infected.
In fact, if you go drill down, it says,
the infection started at September 28th at 3:02 AM,
that's the first indication of an infection.
So, these are the kind of powerful tools
we can do if you take BCDR and ransomware features
and put them all together,
so the investigations for ransomware can be faster.
There's way more than this that we do on a real-time
and ongoing basis, that we would love for you to learn more.
- Yeah, this is fantastic, Vasu,
especially from the perspective
of the proactive scanning and detection,
and being able to go back and understand
exactly when you know your assets were compromised
and how you can recover, it looks fantastic.
So, maybe switching gears a bit,
can we talk a little bit about
which customers are using these capabilities
today on the platform,
where are you seeing traction with the Rubrik platform?
- Certainly, Vamshi.
We've gotten great traction across the board,
be it finser, manufacturing, healthcare, government,
security, education, media, technology, and so on,
in fact, one of the most interested set of customers
are the security companies themselves.
So, we actually protect
most of the security companies themselves,
and we have case studies to talk about.
Very recognizable brand names like Home Depot, Visa,
Palo Alto Networks, Disney, and so on,
and we can give you more details in our enablement
but I could talk about a specific customer,
City National Bank of Florida.
It's a typical example of a customer
that's using Rubrik and Azure together.
City National Bank of Florida has 22 billion in assets,
1,000 employees, 32 branches,
and their data protection was getting siloed.
They have a hybrid environment at the data center
with N365 and Azure,
and they would modernize their stack with Azure Stack;
but then they didn't have the BCDR
that's unified across the three so they bought Rubrik in,
we now have a single console
that man manages their N365, Azure and hybrid
together with single set of policies.
And they're able to bring
Rubrik's ransomware protection portfolio into data assets.
So, that's an example of how customers
can really improve their ransomware resilience
and also work very closely and jointly
improve their future with Microsoft and Rubrik products.
- Yeah, that's a very relevant example.
Thank you, Vasu, and it's a great set of customers
and industries as well that have adopted Rubrik's platform.
So, where can folks go to learn more
about the Rubrik solutions?
- So, thanks, Vamshi.
So, our teams have put together this QR code for you,
you can very easily scan this
and probably links along with this video.
We would love for you to learn more,
you can always go to rubrik.com,
and we have a whole page for Microsoft Joint Partnership.
- Great, thanks, again, Vasu for joining us today
and telling us a little bit more about Rubrik.
Always a pleasure talking with you, thank you.
- Pleasure's mine, thank you so much, Vamshi.
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