Title: AWS re:Inforce 2024 - DSPM everywhere: Secure your data wherever it lives (DAP225-S)

Insights:

• Introduction and Speaker Background: Matt Pichelli from Rubrik, with six years of experience, introduces the topic of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and its application across AWS, multi-cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments.
• Ransomware and Cybersecurity Trends: The frequency of ransomware attacks is increasing, leading to higher cybersecurity spending. Boards and CFOs are questioning the effectiveness of these investments and seeking better resilience strategies.
• Key Questions for Security Leaders: Inspired by Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt, boards should ask security leaders about data location, criticality, access, protection, backup, and recovery plans.
• Challenges in Data Security: Rapid data growth, hybrid environments, regulatory pressures, and the complexity of detecting compromised identities are major challenges in data security.
• Rubrik's Solutions:
  • Visibility: Provides comprehensive visibility across on-prem, AWS, other clouds, and SaaS workloads.
  • Access Management: Identifies over-permissioned data and monitors user activity to detect abnormal behavior.
  • Cyber Recovery: Ensures data protection and recovery from ransomware attacks, offering a significant ROI compared to other tools.
• Unique Selling Points:
  • Integrated Platform: Combines DSPM and backup/recovery capabilities in a single platform.
  • Warranty and Support: Offers a $10 million warranty for data recovery and a dedicated ransomware response team.
• Customer Success Stories:
  • Pagaya: Uses Rubrik to protect AWS and other cloud platforms, ensuring data masking and encryption.
  • ICE (New York Stock Exchange): Gains visibility into acquired companies' data estates, facilitating quick integration and protection.
  • WalkMe: Manages over 100 petabytes of data with Rubrik, focusing on mission-critical environments.
• Return on Investment: Rubrik's solutions reduce total cost of ownership by consolidating point solutions, optimizing backup processes, and minimizing downtime during ransomware attacks.

Quotes:

• "Ransomware victims have just continued to increase every year."
• "Boards, CFOs, are asking their security leaders, there has to be a better way."
• "Where's our data? What's critical? What's sensitive? Where is it? Who's accessing that data?"
• "The majority of attacks that are happening in the cloud, cloud intrusions are 91% factor driven by somebody's compromised credentials."
• "We feel so strongly about our story. We support up to $10 million warranty. If we can't recover your data in a ransomware attack, we'll pay that out."
• "Instead of being down for 30 days plus, you might be down for a few days. And getting back to business in less than a week makes a massive difference after a massive type of ransomware attack."