Rubrik scans 100k backup snapshots
- Rubrik’s Carhartt customer case says the workwear brand now uses Rubrik to scan backup data for malware and speed cyber recovery. - Carhartt said Rubrik’s Turbo Threat Hunting scanned as many as 100,000 backup snapshots in under 60 seconds to find clean restore points. - The case extends a January 2024 rollout covering 600-plus workloads and a claimed 99% recovery-time cut. (rubrik.com)
Backups are copies of data meant to help a company restore systems after an outage or cyberattack. If those copies also contain malware, recovery can stall for days. (rubrik.com 1) (rubrik.com 2) Rubrik says Carhartt is using its platform to check backup data for malware and identify clean recovery points before restoring systems. The customer case study says Carhartt scanned as many as 100,000 snapshots in under 60 seconds with Rubrik Turbo Threat Hunting. (rubrik.com 1) (rubrik.com 2) A snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data, like a save point in a game. Threat hunting in backups means searching those save points to find where an infection started and which copies are still safe to restore. (rubrik.com) Carhartt said its older backup setup left gaps. After a critical application upgrade failed, administrators found that the application data had not been backed up and had to reconstruct more than two weeks of data manually. (rubrik.com) (businesswire.com) The company also said it found malware hiding in backups from legacy tools, which led to weeks of manual investigation. In the newer case study, Rubrik says its anomaly detection now helps Carhartt spot suspicious files earlier and tie those findings into security operations. (rubrik.com 1) (rubrik.com 2) Rubrik first announced the Carhartt deal on January 9, 2024. That announcement said Carhartt migrated more than 600 workloads from multiple legacy backup vendors to Rubrik Security Cloud. (rubrik.com) (ir.rubrik.com) The newer Carhartt case study adds operating results to that earlier announcement. Rubrik says Carhartt cut its cyber recovery time objective by 99%, from weeks to minutes, and reduced monthly total cost of ownership by 50%. (rubrik.com) (rubrik.com) Rubrik introduced Turbo Threat Hunting separately in December 2024 and said the product could scan up to 75,000 backups in less than 60 seconds. The Carhartt case study puts a named customer behind a larger figure: 100,000 snapshots in under 60 seconds. (rubrik.com) (rubrik.com) (rubrik.com) Rubrik frames the pitch around zero trust, a security model that assumes no copy of data is automatically safe. In backup terms, that means checking restore points for signs of compromise before bringing systems back online. (rubrik.com) (rubrik.com) For Carhartt, the thread running through both disclosures is confidence in recovery: fewer backup blind spots, faster malware checks, and less time spent guessing which copy is clean. (rubrik.com)
