For enterprise organizations, identity is the foundation on which every application, every workflow, and every user interaction depends; it extends beyond IT. When your identity infrastructure fails, whether from a cyberattack, misconfiguration, or corruption, your business stops with prolonged downtime. That reality makes investing in modern identity management solutions a strategic imperative for protecting operations and maintaining user trust.

Shifting Toward Identity Management 疯情AV 

According to IBM’s , cyberattacks targeting identity services surged 71% year-over-year between 2022 and 2023. A separate report from XM Cyber found that 80% of cyber attack exposures in 2023 were linked to Active Directory (AD). And according to IDC, 71% of identity-related attacks leveraged stolen or compromised credentials. These figures underscore why organizations are turning to modern identity management solutions to close the gaps left by traditional security tools.

Rather than exploiting software vulnerabilities, today’s adversaries are logging in with legitimate credentials, bypassing traditional endpoint detection tools entirely. Once inside, they escalate privileges, move laterally, and hold your identity systems hostage. If your organization operates with both on-premises AD and cloud-based Entra ID, any change to a single AD object replicates globally, making clean restoration exponentially  more difficult.

Compounding this risk is the fragmentation problem. Most organizations rely on multiple point solutions to defend and recover identity systems, creating dangerous gaps in cross-domain context. When an incident occurs, your teams are left piecing together disjointed alerts during a high-pressure crisis, and every minute of delay extends your exposure and increases the likelihood of attacker persistence across platforms.

What Modern Identity Recovery Looks Like 

Effective identity recovery means more than restoring from a backup; it means recovering to a trusted, known-good state across your entire hybrid identity environment, including AD forests, domain controllers, Entra ID objects, enterprise applications, app registrations, and conditional access policies.

Traditional identity recovery methods are slow, carrying the risk of reintroducing malware, particularly when relying on mutable audit logs or backups that assume a functioning production environment already exists. If Entra ID is restored before AD, for example, hybrid objects may become disassociated, potentially requiring a full Entra Connect sync which can take days in large environments.

The right identity recovery for your organization must address these interdependencies directly. Recovery must be orchestrated, not improvised, with a platform capable of managing full forest recovery through a guided workflow, restoring object-level attributes with their relationships intact, and supporting recovery to alternate environments, including virtual machines, bare metal, and cloud instances.

How Rubrik Identity Recovery Addresses the Hybrid Identity Challenge 

Rubrik鈥檚 identity recovery is purpose-built for this problem. As part of Rubrik Security Cloud, it delivers unified identity management solutions for both Active Directory and Entra ID from a single interface. Built on single-user interface and a Zero Trust model with immutable, air-gapped, access-controlled backups, it ensures your recovery points remain untampered even when your production environment is compromised.

Rubrik automatically discovers domains, domain controllers, and forest hierarchies, identifying FSMO roles and services like DHCP and DNS. Object-level search and restoration enable granular recovery without sacrificing speed. Organizations can also compare AD object attributes between a point-in-time snapshot and the current live state, making it straightforward to identify and roll back malicious changes before they spread further.

The broader Identity Resilience offering, which includes Rubrik identity recovery capabilities, further extends protection with near-real-time monitoring independent of Windows event logs, policy-driven risk detection mapped to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and OWASP, in-app remediation, and the ability to roll forward legitimate identity changes after restoring to a clean baseline. This means your teams remove attacker persistence without losing months of sanctioned identity updates.

Final Thoughts

The cost of inadequate identity recovery is measured in days of downtime and reputational damage. As an AI infrastructure partner with deep expertise in enterprise security architecture, WEI brings AI infrastructure expertise to enterprises, helping organizations evaluate and deploy solutions like Rubrik with precision. Contact WEI today to build a more resilient identity management solutions infrastructure.

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It is not uncommon for a homegrown data protection strategy to encounter scalability challenges in an evolving IT environment as demands from rapid data growth, lifecycle management, and ransomware protection inevitably surface. Such was the case for a prominent enterprise software company that was in need of a modernized approach to data protection. With assistance from WEI, the customer evaluated Rubrik’s enterprise-class backup and recovery solution, aiming for a comprehensive enterprise data protection approach that enhanced its cyber resilience against ransomware threats and ensured its
mission-critical workloads were protected at scale.

The implementation of Rubrik’s Zero Trust Architecture, centralized
management platform, and advanced recovery capabilities not only protected
the customer’s AWS and Azure environments from ransomware, but also
lowered cyber insurance premiums, decreased recovery times and simplified
their IT operations.

The Challenge: Securing Data in a Modern IT Environment

How to improve upon an existing data protection strategy while continuing to deliver the software solutions its customers required served as the primary challenge. The company’s existing homegrown data backup solution lacked appropriate database protections, leaving the company susceptible to modern ransomware attacks. The lack of visibility into their cloud workloads also hindered their ability to effectively monitor and manage their cloud backup strategy. Decentralized management tools and reporting challenges made it a challenge to manage backups at scale. These issues impacted the company’s cyber resilience and recovery speed.

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Identifying 疯情AV Through WEI’s Intensive Assessment Process

WEI focused on developing deeper insights into the customer’s evolving needs of their IT environment, and through this, identified additional considerations for cost savings and optimizations. This included cloud storage costs associated with utilizing AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for snapshots of the environment versus lower cost storage tiers. To address these challenges and protect the company’s data, WEI needed to transform the company’s backup and recovery strategies and deploy a more effective solution.

WEI leveraged its relationship with Rubrik, a cloud data management and data security solution provider, to help build an effective backup and recovery strategy that addressed the customer’s challenges. Rubrik’s enterprise-class backup and recovery solution provides the comprehensive data protection WEI’s customer needed to fortify its cyber resilience. Rubrik’s Zero Trust architecture offers sophisticated security features for online backups, including unalterable snapshots and both encryption at-rest and in-transit which protect the company’s mission-critical workloads against cyber threats. The solution’s advanced recovery capabilities also improved the company’s cyber resilience program, offering on-demand rapid recovery at scale.

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Rubrik’s centralized management platform and single-pane-of-glass interface unify and standardize data management across the software company’s AWS and Azure deployments. Rubrik’s world-class reporting resources also provide the data and essential insights to promote more informed decision making. With tiered storage options, the cloud data backup solution also allows the company to place data in the most appropriate tier to minimize storage-related expenditures.

To demonstrate the operational benefits and cost efficiency of Rubrik over AWS native tools, WEI and Rubrik partnered to conduct a proof of concept (POC) for the customer. During this process, the customer validated the technology and assessed operational improvements that were made possible by the solution. Upon exiting a successful POC, the customer purchased the solution to improve their backup and recovery strategy and achieve significant cost savings.

Measured Outcomes

Improved Backup Management Bolsters Cyber Resilience

A comprehensive enterprise data protection strategy for the client has resulted in streamlined data security to simplify IT management, reduce risk of data loss, and enhance its resiliency against cyberattacks and downtime. The company can also manage backups at scale to accelerate recovery times and elevate operational efficiency.

Substantial Cost Savings & Efficiencies

Replacing its existing AWS native cloud storage services with Rubrik’s low-cost, long-term storage is estimated to save the company approximately $27 million over five years. In addition, the company will also benefit from lower cyber insurance premiums with the new solution’s robust data protections.

Strategic Insights Support Future Planning

Rubrik’s powerful cloud management tool and single pane view offer robust, yet simplified IT management functionality that can help the customer identify optimization opportunities. With increased visibility into the cloud environment, the company can build strategic insights that can drive future planning and enable improved cost effectiveness and data security. The combination of heightened awareness and enhanced management capabilities also empowers the company’s internal FinOps team to monitor cloud spend proactively to identify and justify if rising cloud costs are necessary to support the business or if adjustments are needed for operational and cost efficiency. The savings achieved through better controlled cloud costs can be reinvested in the business to continually develop software solutions that enrich project outcomes and the customer experience.

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WEI’s experienced architects engaged with the customer in meaningful conversations around backup and recovery and conducted a thorough assessment of its existing data protection landscape. Through this process, WEI gained an in-depth understanding of the company’s existing situation as well as its business-specific, forward-looking needs.

To explore the potential cost savings, operational efficiencies, and cyber resilience your company can achieve with a modern backup and recovery solution, contact WEI for an assessment of your cloud data protection strategies.

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