At our recent Data Security Summit, Bipul Sinha sat down with author and award-winning The New York Times cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth to discuss learnings from her research and thousands of interviews with security leaders, government officials, hackers, spies, and more.
The real risk of business disruption, brand damage, and potential liabilities caused by ransomware attacks has elevated cybersecurity from a technical or operational issue normally handled by security teams, to a major Board level priority and discussion. Even the most sophisticated and mature organizations that once believed their cybersecurity defenses were robust are now rethinking their preparedness and response capabilities required to address the imminent threat of ransomware attacks.
The air gap, a cybersecurity countermeasure that isolates digital assets to put them out of reach of malicious actors, is the subject of many industry myths. Are you confused by all the myths around air gaps? Does it seem odd that logical air gaps are not considered air gaps in spite of their ability to defend against attacks? If you answered “yes” to these questions, you're likely not alone.
When organizations are attacked by ransomware, only a little more than half are able to recover their data using a backup. This begs the question, “What about the rest? Why might they be unable to recover?” One reason may be that their backup data has been compromised. Backups are a hot target for hackers. If they can get to an organization’s backup data, they have far more leverage.
Hackathons vary in sizes and shapes, but ours has typically been a 24-hour sprint, with teams submitting a five-minute video presenting their project. This year was our biggest hackathon yet, with almost 90 teams registering across a multitude of departments including Support, Sales, Product, Technical Writing, and, of course, Engineering! We crowdsource the first-round judging by asking anyone at Rubrik to participate in evaluating projects.
Oracle databases are an integral part of modern technological infrastructure for organizations globally. They underpin high-volume digital business, perform thousands of transactions, and house an organization’s critical and sensitive information. Today’s business requirements and data-driven applications are expanding the definition of “data loss” to include data that is inaccessible to the business for a period to significantly and negatively impact it.
The SaaS-based Rubrik platform is built to protect and recover a wide variety of cloud-native workloads. For Microsoft Azure, this commonly equates to protecting Azure Virtual Machines and Managed Disks, where recovery options can range from entire resource replacement, in-region or cross-region exports (clones), and now file/folder recovery.
It was 4:00 in the morning, May 20, 2021. Matthew Day, CIO of Langs Building Supplies (Langs) was excited for a long-anticipated holiday after 14 months of lockdown due to COVID-19. His wife was thrilled. His friends, ecstatic. But the day took an unexpected turn. Instead of waking up delighted to leave for his getaway, Day woke up to every CIO’s worst nightmare, the dreaded phone call: “We’ve been hacked.”
