Rubrik Extends Protection to Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage

Rubrik, the Security and AI Operations Company, announced extended Google Cloud data protection to include Google Cloud Storage, and the general availability of agentless, immutable backup for Google BigQuery. As agents move from pilots to production, BigQuery is no longer just a warehouse. It’s the layer agents reason over and act on, making it critical for organizations to secure.

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The threat to cloud infrastructure is escalating rapidly. A Rubrik Zero Labs report reveals 90% of global IT and security executives reported cyberattacks, with cloud or software-as-a-service environments accounting for 28% of those breaches. Even more alarming, 74% noted threat actors successfully compromised backup and recovery systems. Relying solely on native short-term snapshots leaves organizations vulnerable to credential theft. Rubrik bridges this gap in the shared responsibility model by providing independent, long-term protection outside the production environment.

“The question for every AI deployment is no longer what the agent can do, but what happens when its data is gone. If that data can be lost or corrupted, the agents can’t be trusted,” said Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer, Rubrik. “Rubrik now makes BigQuery recoverable and extends that protection to Google Cloud Storage, so customers can scale AI knowing they can recover from deletion, corruption or an attack.”

Key capabilities for Rubrik’s Google BigQuery protection include:

• Flexible Recovery: Restore a whole dataset or a single table with views, and routines intact at petabyte scale. Organizations can recover in-place or export to another project or region.
• Storage Flexibility: Store backups securely in the customer’s own Google Cloud Storage bucket or the Rubrik Cloud Vault for immutability via Google Cloud Storage Object Retention Locks.
• Operational Simplicity: Setup in minutes with no agents or compute to deploy. Incremental backups with periodic full backups ensure operational efficiency and a low total cost of ownership.
• Compliance and Governance: Overcome native seven-day time travel limits with unlimited retention. Unified compliance reporting gives regulated industries an auditable record to recover from.,
• Unified Platform: Secure BigQuery alongside the rest of the Google Cloud estate using the same service level agreement policies and role-based access controls.

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