Rubrik: Availability of Polaris Radar Data Management Application Built on Polaris SaaS Platform

Rubrik, Inc. announced the availability of Polaris Radar, the latest data management application built on the Polaris SaaS platform.

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Polaris Radar leverages machine learning to model threat behavior, accelerating how enterprises mitigate data security incidents. In the event of an attack, such as ransomware, enterprises can minimize business disruption and data loss by recovering in a few clicks across their entire environment.

Ransomware attacks are intensifying in scale and sophistication, and the perpetrators are better at evading countermeasures. A recent NTT Security survey revealed that ransomware attacks rose 350% in 2017 over the previous year. According to a survey conducted by endpoint protection provider Barkly Protects, Inc., 71% of organizations were infected by ransomware after it successfully bypassed their prevention controls. Enterprises must act quickly to contain the risks posed by ransomware in order to minimize cost, recovery time, and reputational damage. A holistic ransomware response strategy integrates accelerated detection and recovery alongside prevention measures, ensuring strong resiliency in the face of cyber threats.

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Radar: Intelligent data analysis and accelerated recovery
Earlier this year, the company launched Polaris, the first SaaS platform with a unified system of record across all business information. Radar, the latest data management application built on Polaris, empowers enterprises to respond faster to security attacks by delivering intelligence on how an attack impacted their business-critical application data.

Radar’s multi-leveled defense includes:

• Monitoring – Detect anomalies via machine learning models: it leverages machine learning algorithms to understand how users behave and data evolves over time. By actively monitoring global metadata, it generates alerts for anomalies and suspicious behavior, such as ransomware.

• Analysis – Quickly diagnose threat impact with data intelligence: it continuously analyzes the entire environment to map change activity over time. Enterprises can now quickly identify which applications and data were impacted and where they are located to help visualize the attack’s impact on the system.

• Recovery – Minimize business disruption and data loss with simplified recovery: it automates manual recovery processes with intelligent workflows. Users simply select all impacted applications and files and can restore to the most recent clean state with just a few clicks. It builds upon Rubrik’s core platform, which provides immutable backups and government-certified encryption to safeguard all data against any attack.

“In today’s digital era, the magnitude of security attacks, such as ransomware, is greatly expanding. To fortify their defense, enterprises must unify prevention measures with strong recovery,” said Soham Mazumdar, co-founder and chief architect, Rubrik. “Radar drives the speed and intelligence necessary to quickly assess the attack’s impact and minimize the crippling effects of downtime and data loss.“

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Empowering IT and enabling SecDevOps with API-driven ecosystem
Radar empowers enterprises to establish a single crisis management team across the entire organization, unifying information security, infrastructure and operations, and BC management teams for visibility and control. The company and other third-party developers will leverage Polaris’s open APIs to integrate Radar into existing monitoring dashboards, security operations workflows, and prevention products.

“When we were hit by ransomware a few years ago, we leveraged Rubrik’s fast recovery and APIs to recover in under an hour with zero data loss. Today, ransomware is much more sophisticated than it was a few years ago. With Radar, we could leverage its data intelligence to alert us on suspicious behavior and better understand what was impacted at a granular level,” said Matthew Day, CIO, Langs Building Supplies.

“As a legal institution, the safety of our organization’s data is always top of mind. That is why I am excited about the release of Rubrik’s Radar application that can augment our security stack while providing faster and simpler recovery workflows. Rubrik continues to integrate security with data protection, ensuring that all our backed up data is safeguarded from an attack,” said David Comer, senior network engineer, Pillsbury Law.

Resources:
Polaris Radar DS
Webinar: How Radar Defends Companies Against Ransomware