Rubrik Backup Connector
Validate that your backups are recoverable, clean, and tamper-free, so you can treat backup integrity as a true security control.
Why This Matters
Ransomware attackers don’t stop at production systems. They target your backup repositories, snapshots, and recovery chains too. Without verifying that those backups remain clean and untampered, you’re left without a clean recovery option. Elastio fills that critical gap. You don’t just check job completion or immutability; you gain an automated control that verifies backups are recoverable and ransomware-free. The integration lets you bring that control into your existing backup ecosystem.
Key Capabilities
- Native, agentless integration with Rubrik on-premises via native Rubrik APIs. For AWS and Azure, use the Elastio Cloud Connectors.
- Scheduled or on-demand behavioural inspections of backup data at scale, detecting ransomware encryption, hidden malware, and insider threats.
- Automatic identification of the last known clean recovery point drastically reduces guesswork during a recovery.
- Policy-based alerts and dashboards for risk and compliance teams: track which backup sets are validated, clean, and which require investigation.
- Seamless workflow fit: Elastio automatically scans after each Rubrik backup job completes, so there’s no disruption to your existing operations.
How It Works (High-Level Architecture)
Rubrik backup server executes scheduled or on-demand backup jobs as usual.
Elastio Worker VM (or cluster) connects to Rubrik via its native APIs, inventories backup jobs, and mounts the relevant recovery point.
Elastio runs its behavioural ransomware engines on the mounted data, looking for signs of encryption, malware, and tampering.
Detailed threat results and forensics are sent to the Elastio console and your SIEM: a backup set is marked as either Clean/Recovery-Ready or High-Risk/Review Required.
Your SOC, IR, or DR team acts on the alerts and optionally initiates a restore from a validated clean recovery point for fast and clean recovery. Elastio provides Threat Hunt capabilities, detailed ransomware intelligence, and access to our expert incident response team for forensics.
Deployment Scenarios / Use Cases
- Cloud-native & Hybrid Backup Infrastructure
- Perfect for organizations using Rubrik in on-premises environments. Elastio provides continuous assurance of the health of your backups.
- Financial Services & Highly Regulated Industries
- When proving recoverability matters just as much as backing up, Elastio + Rubrik gives you audit-ready evidence that backups are free of ransomware and ready for restore.
- Ransomware Response-Readiness
- In the event of a ransomware incident, speed and confidence matter. Elastio rapidly identifies reusable recovery points, avoiding downtime associated with scanning all recovery points for clean copies.
Setup & Prerequisites
- User:Create or use an existing user on the Rubrik backup server.
- Elastio Worker VM:Minimum spec: 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 100 GB storage.
- Hypervisor Support:VMware
Why Elastio vs Generic Backup Verification?
Backup job completion and immutability checks confirm the process, but they don’t detect malicious encryption, hidden malware, and silent tampering of recovery points. Elastio adds behavioural ransomware detection to your Rubrik backups and provides proof of the last safe recovery point.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this integration.
What does Elastio inspect inside Rubrik backups?
Elastio performs deep file inspection on the data inside Rubrik CDM backups, looking for ransomware encryption, malware, and integrity issues. Rubrik backups are read out-of-band and never modified.
Does the Rubrik connector require agents on Rubrik clusters?
No. The connector uses Rubrik’s native API for agentless, out-of-band inspection. SLA domains, protection sets, and replication policies are unchanged.
Is the Rubrik integration on-prem only or cloud too?
Both. Elastio inspects Rubrik CDM on-premises and Rubrik’s cloud-protection products against the same set of ransomware detection models.
Does Elastio replace Rubrik’s built-in anomaly detection?
No. Rubrik’s Radar and Threat Hunting do anomaly- and indicator-based detection at the metadata layer. Elastio adds content-level deep file inspection that catches threats anomaly detection cannot see. They’re complementary, not overlapping.
What ransomware can Elastio detect in Rubrik backups?
2,600+ ransomware families and variants, including polymorphic, metamorphic, and intermittent-encryption strains that bypass entropy- and metadata-based detection.
Does the Rubrik connector affect cluster performance?
It doesn’t. Elastio reads via API on its own compute footprint; Rubrik backup, replication, and restore performance are unaffected.
How is the last known clean recovery point identified in Rubrik?
Elastio assigns each Rubrik snapshot a clean/dirty verdict. The most recent snapshot marked clean is the recommended restore target during an incident, giving SOC and IR teams a defensible recovery answer.
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